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- Music, Music Feature Sep 5, 2019
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Once Riot Fest has you, how does it treat you?
The festival grounds themselves provide a pretty different experience than, say, Lollapalooza or Pitchfork.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 12, 2018
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Not even 2018 can stop Riot Fest
It’s been a bad year for punks—and for everyone else who hates authoritarianism. But Riot Fest has persevered to bring us Run the Jewels, Blondie, Gary Numan, and 85 more acts.
- Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2018
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Riot Fest announces its first wave of acts for 2018
Riot Fest got Blink-182! Cypress Hill! Blondie! The Jesus Lizard! Liz Phair! Atmosphere! Beck! Cat Power! And . . . the 82-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis?
- Music, Music Feature Dec 6, 2017
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The Third Coming of the Jesus Lizard
On the eve of their latest return home, the band talk about why they chose Chicago—and how they became its most beautiful noise-rock monsters.
- Music, Concert Preview Nov 30, 2017
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Noise-rock revolutionaries the Jesus Lizard hit Chicago once again
- Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 22, 2016
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Industrial supergroup Pigface celebrates 25 years of revolving-door lineups
Plus: The Music Box screens an underappreciated Prince movie, the Chosen Few DJs honor a bygone house-music club, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Thu 3/27: The Jesus Lizard Book, Earth and Mark McGuire, and whisk(e)y
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, March 27
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: An emphatic salute to 90s-era noise rock on Bummer's "Infinite Witches"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Infinite Witches" from Kansas City's Bummer.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 22, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: The instrumental power riffs on the Fucking Champs' "The Loge"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "The Loge," from the Fucking Champs album VI.
- Music, Music Column Aug 25, 2011
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Rodeo straddles the fence between reviewed and reviewer
"'Listen to it,' says drummer George Nisbett. "That doesn't take 140 characters."
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 30, 2011
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Gossip Wolf: New Wave Hot Dogs
Yo La Tengo spin their wheel and land on Duk’s. Plus: Dave Pirner dresses for success and a Pinebender veteran debuts a new project
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2011
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Live Jesus Lizard DVD drops on August 23
The live Jesus Lizard DVD Club hits the streets on August 23.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2010
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Michael Shannon, Punk Rocker
More on "I'll Die Tomorrow" star Michael Shannon's music, theater and film career.
- Blogs, Bleader May 14, 2010
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Experimental Music in Chicago, Tonight and This Summer
Tonight at Heaven Gallery, TV Pow's Todd Carter debuts a new multichannel work using archival Sun Ra recordings; the Neon Marshmallow Festival, scheduled for August, announces its impressive lineup.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 13, 2010
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Everybody Wants to Be in Pictures
Interpol gets less dapper, Def Leppard makes a coffee-table book, a "secret" movie fundraiser with David Yow and Michael Shannon, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2009
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Pitchfork photos by Clayton Hauck, pt. 2
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2009
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Record Store Day is tomorrow!
Chicago's independent record stores band together this Saturday for Record Store Day, and it's chock-full of giveaways, sales, special releases, and in-store performances.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2009
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What's in store for Record Store Day
Vinyl fetishists, start your engines: this April's Record Store Day promises a heap of amazing special releases.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2009
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Pitchfork tickets go on sale today at noon
Tickets go on sale Friday at noon for the Pitchfork Music Festival with the Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Pharoahe Monch, the National, the Walkmen, Grizzly Bear, and others set to appear.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2009
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Pitchfork partway
The Pitchfork fest's first acts are announced.