Wednesday 13’s new album, Mid Death Crisis, is out now. The band will play Concord Music Hall with The Birthday Massacre and Lord of the Lost on January 31 st.

For Wednesday 13 [Joseph Michael Poole], horror and spooky things aren’t just a hobby. It’s his full-time job. There’s a reason he’s known as The Duke of Spook. For the past three decades, he’s been ...

Chicago’s own Brigitte Calls Me Baby is going back to where it all started. The band will preview new music from their upcoming album, Irreversible, during a special, intimate hometown show. The ...

Still riding high on the success of their fourth album, Frogs in Boiling Water, DIIV brings their dreamy shoegaze to Lincoln ...

WTMX (The Mix) recently announced that midday personality Lisa Allen was leaving the station. The announcement added “along with three other staffers.” When I read that, I had a bad feeling, so I ...

Review and photos by Jeff Elbel. The band blasted through Stoneage Romeos in its original Australian album order, beginning with “(Let’s All) Turn On” and its pre-Marie Kondo list of things that spark ...

Dominic Richard Harrison, better known as YUNGBLUD, fuses his love of hip-hop, post punk, punk rock, and pop punk for a sound that can only be defined as “YUNGBLUD.” He continues to evolve on his ...

The last time Ville Valo performed at Chicago’s House of Blues he was reaching the end of a lengthy chapter in his life. HIM, the band he fronted for 25 years, was calling it quits. It was the last ...

Joan Esposito was known to Chicago audiences as a television reporter and anchor after her many years at Channel 5 & 7. Still, when she accepted the job as afternoon host at Progressive Talk WCPT (820 ...

First of all, let’s get an explanation of the name. The night jock at WTMX is named Dash. “All my life, when I told people my name,” he explains, “I would say Jordan Gabriel Orman-Weiss. The dash was ...

While the streets of Chicago teemed with revelers getting an early start on St. Patrick’s Day, a full house celebrated the holiday with Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve on Saturday night. Costello and ...

For better or worse, that has become my patented gallows-humored, post-pandemic response to anyone who casually inquires how I’m doing. Based on the hilarious Monty Python Death Cart scene in The Holy ...