Lollapalooza Lost?

Lollapalooza Music Festival Grant Park Chicago, Illinois August 1-3, 2014 The reviews of the 2014 edition of the Midwest's largest music festival, Lollapalooza, are still coming in. The mainstream media has offered polite and generally positive assessments. However, there has been a percolating question, "Has Lollapalooza lost its way?". With 8 stages, over ...
August 7, 2014
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Pitchfork – Day 3 – July 20, 2014

Pitchfork - Day 3 - July 20, 2014 Union Park, Chicago The final day of the Pitchfork Music Festival provided a little more anger and angst coupled with a hippie vibe. There were some fairly aggressive acts (Deafheaven and Isaiah Rashad). Revibing the 1990s college scene was provided by Speedy Ortiz. ...
July 22, 2014
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Pitchfork – Day 2 – July 19, 2014

Pitchfork - Day 2 - July 19, 2014 Union Park, Chicago Day two of this Indie/Rap/Noise festival continued to provide a plethora of diversity, texture, and new music. Cadien Lake James of Twin Peaks started the day out in a wheel-chair grinding out a perfervid verse with the Chicago quartet. ...
July 20, 2014
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Pitchfork – Day 1 – July 18, 2014

Pitchfork - Day 1 - July 18, 2014 Union Park, Chicago So off we go with the retro return of Donna Summers by-way-of Giorgio Moroder, some plucky roadhouse rambling, melodic tonal spheres amassing in the SW park corner...and a little reminiscing and feeling somewhat middle aged upon realizing that Beck is ...
July 19, 2014
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Bob Mould at the Pritzker Pavilion

Bob Mould at the Pritzker Pavilion Monday, June 21, 2014 One of the more unusual items this summer must certainly be the free show by Bob Mould at the Pritzker Pavillion in Millenium Park. Normally, this is the site for casual high brow classical music produced by the Chicago symphony. However, ...
June 25, 2014
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Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal

Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal What's your Rupture/Mom & Pop released: June 3, 2014 The Brooklyn-based quartet continue to develop their cerebral Indie sound coupling a selection of short frenetic pieces with more mature slower complex tunes that often reference post punk and experimental rock bands of the late 1970s-1980s. For Pitchfork, Larry Fitzmaurice ...
June 14, 2014
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The National at the Chicago Theater

Review of The National Live at the Chicago Theatre April 18th, 2014 The National performed their fourth show at the historic Chicago Theater on April 18th, 2014. The band of brother’s songs are written and sung by Matt Berininger, and music is composed and performed by Aaron Dessner (guitar and keyboard), ...
May 17, 2014
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2014 Summer Music Festivals

2014 Summer Music: In 1954 Elvis Presley wooed young ladies with girating hips. In 1964 the Beatles invaded America. 1968 was the summer of LOVE. 1972 saw David Bowie create Ziggy Stardust. In 1977 everyone had 'Saturday Night Fever'. Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1982. Nirvana ‘Smelled Like Teen ...
April 28, 2014
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