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Music, Music Feature Oct 22, 2020
If enough of us celebrate Independent Venue Week, we might have one next year too

To complement IVW's live programming, the Reader has rounded up some favorite stories about Chicago music venues past and present.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Feature, Independent Venue Week, Chicago Independent Venue League, CIVL, National Independent Venue Association, NIVA, Billy Helmkamp, Sleeping Village, Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists, Sen Morimoto, Califone, Lincoln Hall, Audiotree, livestream, COVID-19, CARES Act, pandemic, Ricky Rat, Reggies', Afro Fusion, Promontory, NIVA Emergency Relief Fund, Aragon, Blue Note, Carol's Pub, Empty Bottle, Exit, Green Mill, Hungry Brain, Lounge Ax, Medusa's, Metro, Mutiny, Palm Tavern, Rosa's Lounge, Taste, Taylor Street Tap, La Mere Vipere, O'Banion's, Oz

Music, Music Feature Jul 30, 2020
Video
Want live music back? Wear a mask and call Congress.

Staff from 22 Chicago music venues talk about how far they still are from normal—and what it’ll take to keep them around till we all get there.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Independent Venue League, CIVL, National Independent Venue Association, NIVA, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, Phase Three, Phase Four, livestream, live music, shutdown, shelter in place, Hideout, Empty Bottle Presents, Brent Heyl, CARES Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, Paycheck Protection Program, RESTART Act, Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards a Recovery in Twenty-Twenty, Michael Bennet, Todd Young, Joe Shanahan, Metro, Smart Bar, GMan Tavern, John Cornyn, Amy Klobuchar, Save Our Stages Act, Small Business Administration, ENCORES Act, Entertainment New Credit Opportunity for Relief & Economic Sustainability, Ron Kind, Mike Kelly, Green Mill, SPACE, Jame Samuels, FitzGerald’s, To-Go Concerts, Experimental Sound Studio, Quarantine Concerts, ESS, Olivia Junell, Lincoln Hall, Audiotree, Cole’s Bar, Schubas, Staged, Rosa’s Lounge, Jake Austen, Promontory, Cole Brice, Eric Chial, Montrose Saloon, City Winery, Dan Conroe, Will Duncan, VoiceBox, Subterranean, Beat Kitchen, Robert Gomez, Thalia Hall, Empty Bottle, Tony Mangiullo, the Post, Sheldon Randolph, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Mike Reed, Katie Tuten, Patrick VanWagoner, Audiotree Presents, Carol’s Pub, Ed Warm, Elastic Arts, Adam Zanolini, Video

Music, Music Feature Apr 28, 2020
Video
Ratboys have been forced off the road, but they’re still on the rails

The Chicago indie rockers recently released their best album yet, and though they can’t tour, they’re finding ways to stay connected to their fans.
- By Tim Crisp
- Tags: Music Feature, Ratboys, Printer’s Devil, GN, Julia Steiner, Dave Sagan, David Sagan, Sean Neumann, Marcus Nuccio, Ian Paine-Jesam, tour, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, Wilco, Topshelf Records, Notre Dame, South by Southwest, SXSW, Pet Symmetry, Twitch, Ratboys Virtual Tour, merch, merchandise, livestream, livestreaming, Diet Cig, Vundabar, Foxing, Soccer Mommy, Pup, Metro, Lincoln Hall, Hideout, AOID, Treefort Music Fest, Waking Windows, High Road Touring, Stereogum, the Grey Estates, the Alternative, Eli Enis, Alien With a Sleep Mask On, Coool, John TerEick, Jake Nokovic, I Go Out at Night, Anj, Chloe the Pug, Paste, Bernie Sanders, Dowsing, Wild Pink, People, Havas, Amazon, Redeye Worldwide, Streamlabs Open Broadcast Software, Gatorade, Super New Songs, Video

Music, Concert Preview Feb 28, 2020
Recommended
Baltimore indie group Lower Dens use synths to navigate a complex world on The Competition
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Lower Dens, Baltimore, Jana Hunter, Escape From Evil, The Competition, Ribbon Music, genderfluid, Nate Nelson, Lincoln Hall, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Feb 21, 2020
Recommended
Chicago’s Ratboys become the toast of the national indie scene with Printer’s Devil
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Ratboys, Julia Steiner, David Sagan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, indie-rock, Marcus Nuccio, Sean Neumann, Printer’s Devil, Topshelf, Louisville, Lincoln Hall, Hideout, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Jan 10, 2020
Recommended
On Beware of the Dogs, Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly bridges the gap between debatable and relatable
- By Jessi Roti
- Tags: Concert Preview, Stella Donnelly, Lincoln Hall, Tomorrow Never Knows, Beware of the Dogs, Secretly Canadian, Australia, folk-rock, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Jan 3, 2020
Recommended
Caroline Polachek from Chairlift explores the pain and pleasure of love on Pang
- By Madeline Happold
- Tags: Concert Preview, Caroline Polachek, Lincoln Hall, Tomorrow Never Knows, Chairlift, Antichrist, Arcadia, Ramona Lisa, Target Around the Arrow, CEP, Pang, PC Music, Danny L. Harle, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Nov 15, 2019
Recommended Video
Las Cafeteras don’t believe in borders, musical or otherwise
- By Catalina Maria Johnson
- Tags: Concert Preview, Las Cafeteras, Eastside Cafe, Los Angeles, son jarocho, La Bamba Rebelde, Sonorama, DJ Rebel Betty, Lincoln Hall, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Feature Jul 9, 2019
Video
Kaina gives her soulful R&B the intimacy of real and chosen family

The Chicago singer-songwriter’s debut album takes its strength from her favorite people: her friends and collaborators, her childhood mentors, her immigrant parents.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Kaina, Next to the Sun, Sooper Records, Secretly Distribution, Sen Morimoto, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Green, House, Kaina Castillo, Lincoln Hall, Jean Deaux, Maritza Castillo, Rene Castillo, Glenn Curran, Ravyn Lenae, Saba, Care for Me, Cannonball!, Joseph Chillams, The Plastics, Young Chicago Authors, Happiness Club, Chris Swanson, 4u, Fanny Gimenez, Ozzie Guillén, Wilson Álvarez, Guatemala, Venezuela, Caracas, Joei Simone Langford, Joei, Tanji Harper, the Loop, Postock, O'My's, Maceo Haymes, Ohmme, Macie Stewart, DePaul, Mariah Neuroth, Sharod Smith, M&O, Jamila Woods, Owen Hill, Lane Tech, Could Be a Curse, Eddie Burns, Iz Burns, Burns Twins, Bedows, Sweet Asl, Fake Shore Drive, Tanto Trabajar, Billo's Caracas Boys, Video

Music, In Rotation Jun 12, 2019
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Comics artist Corinne Halbert on her favorite maggot-filled monster

Plus: Teen Movie Hell author Mike McPadden on a power trio that outdoes 1991 Nirvana, Reader listings coordinator Salem Collo-Julin on merch for bands real and imagined, and more
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: In Rotation, Mike McPadden, McBeardo, Teen Movie Hell, Heavy Metal Movies, Corinne Halbert, Judas Priest, World Wide Blitz Tour, International Amphitheatre, Victim of Changes, Jennifer Williams, the Raven Call, Van Halen, Kleenex, FKA Twigs, Waylon Jennings, WZRD, WZRD 88.3 FM, playlist, tweets, Metz, Mudhoney, Lincoln Hall, Pussy Galore, Exile on Main St., Julia Cafritz, The Pirate Movie, The Pirates of Penzance, The Pirate Movie: The Original Soundtrack to the Motion Picture, Kristy McNichol, Pumpin’ and Blowin’, Oderus Urungus, Gwar, Dave Brockie, Big Business, Here Come the Waterworks, The Beast You Are, King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, Video

Music, Music Feature Jan 23, 2019
Why won’t City Hall fight for Chicago’s homegrown music scene?

The Chicago Independent Venue League shouldn’t have to push back against the Live Nation handouts in the Lincoln Yards development—but the city doesn’t protect its own treasures.
- By Mark Guarino
- Tags: Music Feature, CIVL, Chicago Independent Venue League, Sterling Bay, Lincoln Yards, Rahm Emanuel, Live Nation, the Hideout, Katie Tuten, Music Venue Trust, Mark Davyd, agent of change, TIF, tax increment financing, Katie Tuten, Metro, Smart Bar, Gman Tavern, Thalia Hall, Empty Bottle, the Promontory, Subterranean, Beat Kitchen, Schubas, Lincoln Hall, Sleeping Village, the Whistler, Martyrs’, Brian Hopkins, alderman, Sarah Hopkins, Ticketmaster, C3 Presents, Ari Emanuel, George Lucas, Amazon, House of Blues, Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Aragon, Subterranean, Kingston Mines, Allstate Arena, Community Development Commission, Cortland/Chicago River Tax Increment Financing district, Chicago Plan Commission, Music City, Night Mayor, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, DCASE, Mark Kelly, Year of Chicago Theatre, Robert Gomez, Chicago Music Commission, Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, Amy Terrill, Music Canada, Lounge Ax, Julia Adams, Juicebox, See Chicago Dance, Bronzeville Echoes, Choose Chicago, Rick Carney, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Eighth Blackbird, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Music Commission, Red River Cultural District, Lori Lightfoot, Susana Mendoza, Toni Preckwinkle, Amara Enyia

Blogs, Bleader Aug 10, 2018
BlacKkKlansman and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Josie Dunn at Lincoln Hall and more goings on 8/10-8/12
- By Tyra Nicole Triche
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Blackkklansman, Spike Lee, Den Theatre, Smart Bar, Luke Vibert, In the Harvest, The Lady Demands Satisfaction, City Lit Theater, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Josie Dunn, Lincoln Hall

Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2018
The film Superfly and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Tracyanne Campbell and more goings-on 6/25-6/28
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Superfly, You Can't Take it With You, Father Comes Home from the Wars, The Displaced, Sarah Louise, Tracyanne Campbell, Goodman Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Lincoln Hall, Austin Gardens, Constellation Danny Coughlan, Groundhog Day, Millenium Park, Pritzker Pavillion

Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2018
Chicago Doomed & Stoned Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

A screening of Full Metal Jacket in 35mm and more goings-on 6/1-6/3.
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Film, Music, chicago doomed & stone festival, wonder years, concord music hall, full metal jacket, filmworker, music box, ric wilson, banba, lincoln hall, waiting for godot, druid theatre, chicago shakespeare theater, juno, diablo cody, tully, jason reitman, stories of the body, mother teresa, the ready, reggie's rock club

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2018
The Memorial Day Parade and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Bike the Drive and more goings-on 5/25-5/28.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Film, bike the drive, bonnie jones, experimental sound studio, memorial day parade, breezy radio, smoke daddy, sen morimoto, cannonball, empty bottle, mayfestiversary, dovetail, begyle, max clarke, cut worms, lincoln hall, the laramie project, factory theater, lgbtq, first reformed ethan hawke, the book of maggie, nox arca, dj quik, arie crown theater

Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2018
Breeders at the Vic and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Until the Flood at the Goodman and more goings-on 5/7-5/10.
- By Ashley Mizuo
- Tags: Arts, Music, Film, Do This, Dael Orlandersmith, support the girls, andrew bujalski, music box, goodman theatre, until the flood, breeders, chad taylor, constellation, Paul Schrader, taxi driver, first reformed, kim deal, music box, frankie cosmos, Greta Kline, vessel, lincoln hall

Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2018
Jaden Smith and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The Death of Stalin and more goings-on about town 4/30-5/3.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, jaden smith, lincoln hall, syre, wishbone, west loop, willennial, The Death of Stalin, veep, Armando Iannucci, lean on pete, andrew haigh, 45 years, things to do, lover for a day, philippe garrel, gene siskel film center, the cake, rivendell theatre

Blogs, Bleader Apr 27, 2018
American Pleasure Club at the Beat Kitchen and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Post Animal at Lincoln Hall and more goings-on 4/27-4/29.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, post animal, lincoln hall, stranger things, joe keery, american pleasure club, teen suicide, When I Think of You in a Castle, Ryan Keberle, Find the Common, Shine a Light, Constellation, Princess Nokia, 1992 Deluxe, Destiny Frasqueri, 9 to 5 the musical, den theatre, firebrand theatre, second city, gaslight district

Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2018
Ravyn Lenae and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Before Sunset in 35mm and more goings-on 4/9-4/12
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, sticky, crush, zero fatigue, ravyn lenae, lincoln hall, turnstile, bottom lounge, outside in, before sunrise, before sunset, univ of chicago doc films, rob magill, the owl and the pussycat, elastic, southern gothic, windy city playhouse, humpday, your sister's sister, outside in, gene siskel film center

Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2018
Video
Portland singer-songwriter Haley Heynderickx has the kind of smarts that creep up on you

Haley Heynderickx makes her Chicago debut on Friday night at Lincoln Hall, opening for the Low Anthem.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Haley Heynderickx, I Need to Start a Garden, Oom Sha La La, Lincoln Hall, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 13, 2018
Vic Mensa throws a fund-raiser for his ambitious new charitable foundation

Plus: Shambolic glam punks the Sueves preview their forthcoming second album, and R&B horn man Sam Trump plays two sets at the California Clipper.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Vic Mensa, foundation, charity, fund-raiser, Save Money Save Life, Jamila Woods, Lincoln Hall, therapists, first responders, students, schools, Sueves, Joe Schorgl, HoZac, R.I.P. Clearance Event, Dead People’s Cars, Mama, Cheetahs, Auxiliary Art Center, Sam Trump, Purple Skies, California Clipper, R&B

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2018
A special Valentine's Day version of Mortified and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

The Humans at Cadillac Palace Theatre and more goings-on February 9-11
- By Rachel Yang
- Tags: Arts, Do This, The Woman Who Left, Logan Center for the Arts, Nothing Is Ours but Time, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Native American Woven Arts, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Bye Bye Liver, Stage 773, Lincoln Hall, Mortified Valentine Shmalentine, The Humans, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Stephen Karam, Musical Therapy The Musical, Greenhouse Theater Center

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2018
The Chicago Moth StorySlam and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

A reading from The Selfie Generation, the literary bout Write Club, and more goings-on January 15-18
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, alicia eler, judith dawn, women and children first, awakenings foundation, ian belknap, write club, lincoln hall, moth storyslam, hideout, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, gene siskel film center, ask your mama, langston hughes, symphony center, Revolutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2017
The best things to do in Chicago on New Year's Eve

Hip-hop artist Noname, the Annoyance Theatre's Steamworks: The Musical, and more recommended events for New Year's Eve in Chicago
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Food & Drink, Music, burning bluebeard, the infinite wrench, champagne, new year's eve, voyager, noname, leor galil, lincoln hall, a night of witchcraft and wizardry, the laboratory, harry potter, DJ My Boy Elroy, uncommon ground, Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers, big star, public house theatre, bye bye liver, marshall's landing, merchandise mart

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2017
Comedian Matt Braunger at Lincoln Hall, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Twelfth Night at the Lincoln Park Conservatory, Lake Shore Dive pop-up bar, and more goings-on the weekend of 12/15-12/17
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, gayco, tis the seasonal depression, here chicago, ian belknap, chance the rapper, lake shore dive, circus studio, dad's basement, bridgeport art center holiday market, matt braunger, lincoln hall, twelfth night, lincoln park conservatory, Topdog/Watchdog, or Who Is Sylvia?, christopher piatt

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