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Preview: Full Court Press All-Star Jam 3 at Abbey Pub on August 2nd
It’s baaaaaack. For the 3rd time this year, Dan Rucinski at Abbey Pub has assembled a slew of musicians from the Chicagoland area to get together and jam. These show have gotten bigger each time, and...
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2012 Electric Forest Festival – Part One
This was a different sort of festival trip. Not only did this version of Electric Forest shift in new ways, but I’ve never experienced such a reversal of mood & energy at a festival before. These...
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Full Court Press 3 (and Fresh Hops in the Green Room) at Abbey Pub
It’s all starting to fall into place. The first two Full Court Presses were the warm up period. They were fun, they had lots of promise, but there weren’t many people to see it and the format hadn’t...
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Preview: Roster McCabe at Abbey Pub on September 22nd
The nonstop touring machine known as Roster McCabe will be back in the city this Saturday at Abbey Pub. These guys have ‘broken through’ in Chicago like few Midwestern bands have, earning a reputation...
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Umphrey’s McGee at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee
[Words by Carmel O'Farrell] [Photos by Derek Martinez] Every once in a while, a band plays a show they consider a milestone. They cross a line that has never been crossed and reach a professional level...
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Ultraviolet Hippopotamus and Digeometric at Martyrs’
Breaking into Chicago isn’t easy. It’s a tough thing to move up from having a handful of people attend a show, to packing a room like Martyrs’. Over the past few years I’ve watched a whole bunch of...
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Umphrey’s McGee’s Milwaukee’s Beast at Riverside Theatre – Night One
Since 2008, Umphrey’s McGee has been adding a special twist on their Halloween shows by creating rarely-to-be-played (most often only once) mashups in only the way they could. I’ll be the first to...
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Umphrey’s McGee’s Milwaukee’s Beast at Riverside Theatre – Night Two
The table was set for night two — Saturday night — to be the cherry on top of an already fantastic weekend. Umphrey’s delivered a top shelf show the first night of Milwaukee’s Beast without even...
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Greensky Bluegrass, Strange Arrangement, and Chicago Farmer at Park West
My parents were coming to visit for Thanksgiving. So what do I do? Of course I took them to a concert. And there couldn’t have been a better show than a Greensky Bluegrass + Strange Arrangement affair...
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UV Hippo, IndigoSun, Genome, and Jib n Jab at Double Door
It’s always great to see a whole bill of familiar bands. Thanksgiving brings out the ‘come home’ instinct in everyone, bands included, and for Chicago based IndigoSun, Genome, and Jib n Jab, this was...
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10th Annual Brendan Bayliss and Jake Cinninger Acoustic Holiday Concert at...
As if Umphrey’s McGee really needs another way to demonstrate their love for their fans… We already have a number of special shows, after parties, and an unparalleled access to the band thanks to Joel...
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Brothers Rage with Brendan Bayliss and Marcus Rezak at The Store
If you live in Chicago and go to lots of shows, chances are you know or have at least seen Tyler Smith. This is a professional rager if I’ve ever known one. And luckily for me, he has also become a...
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Lotus, Zoogma, and Archnemisis at Riviera Theatre (Night 1)
[Words & Photos by Brianna Kelly] The foundation of the Riviera Theatre shook as electronic duo Archnemesis blasted their beats to a scant audience of early arrivers at the Lotus show on Dec. 27,...
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Lotus at Riviera Theatre (Night 2)
Technical difficulties are never something you want at a concert. But when a band can use them to their advantage, well then you have something special and rare. For the second night of their run at...
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Preview: The Twin Cats at Martyrs’ on January 17th
It’s great to see The Twin Cats starting to get stronger in Chicago. For a while it’s been lots of opening sets and free shows. But, finally, they have a headlining set on a Thursday night at an...
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Preview and Ticket Giveaway: Wyllys Bueller’s Day Off featuring Wyllys,...
The Cubby Bear is known for its proximity to Wrigley and the debauchery that comes with being in the heart of Wrigleyville. But they’ve taken on a new live music leadership in 2013 and look to have a...
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The Diggity at Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo
[Words and Photos by Greg Molitor | ReMIND Photography and Journalism] Until recently, Northwest Indiana’s The Diggity remained an elusive mystery. For years I’d heard about their live performances,...
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Umphrey’s McGee NYE Run at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA
[Words by Megan Sanders] [Photos by Chad Smith] Most of us could see it coming from a mile away. After a 2010 show so magical the band filmed a mini-documentary about it, and a Halloween run that made...
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Photos from Umphrey’s McGee at Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY by Dann Wunderlich
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