Japanese Breakfast with Ginger Root The Salt Shed Chicago, Illinois May 1st, 2025 For Chicago, Illinois, one night of Japanese Breakfast has never been enough. Aside from a festival appearance at Pitchfork Music Festival in the summer of 2022, the band has had two back-to-back Chicago dates on all of Continue Reading
Bright Eyes – Cursive // Louisville, KY // 4.24.25
Bright Eyes with Cursive Paristown Hall Louisville, KY April 24th, 2025 On April 24th, beloved indie rock band Bright Eyes brought their tour with fellow Omaha indie rock band Cursive to Louisville, KY, playing to a packed house. Founded in 1995 by Conor Oberst (singer-songwriter/guitarist), Mike Mogis (multi-instrumentalist/producer), and Continue Reading
Tonight, Ice Nine Kills’ The Silver Scream-A-Thon Tour May Just Come Crawling to a City Near You
Calling Psychos one and all, in case you haven’t heard (you most certainly have), your favorite freaks are going on tour. Yes, for fans of Boston-based horror-core legends Ice Nine Kills, today is a massive day, indeed. The launch of The Silver Scream-A-Thon starts tonight with support from bands like Continue Reading
Green Day, Weezer, Blink-182: Riot Fest Announces 2025 Lineup
This morning, Riot Fest announced their 2025 lineup revealing Green Day, Weezer, and Blink-182 as the headliners. The festival will take place in Chicago’s Douglass Park over the weekend of September 19th-21st. 2025 marks 20 years since Chicago’s first Riot Fest and founder Mike Petryshyn is more amazed than anyone Continue Reading
Judah and The Lion – Ethan Regan // Louisville, KY // 4.8.25
Judah and The Lion with Ethan Regan Paristown Hall Louisville, KY April 8th, 2025 Judah and The Lion brought their ‘The Process Tour’ to Paristown Hall on April 8th to a packed house. Touring in support of their latest album The Process, released in May of 2024, they performed Continue Reading
Grammy winning band Halestorm teases their upcoming single “Darkness Always Wins”
You know that one social media post you see as you’re scrolling that makes your heart skip in your chest and starts to pull an excited squeal out of your throat? No? Just me? This afternoon on my usual perusing, I managed to stumble upon a notification I had missed Continue Reading
Lorde Announces New Single “What Was That”
Lorde has just announced the pending release of “What Was That,” her first solo track since the release of 2021 album Solar Power. The new track will be “out soon” according to the Instagram post made by the New Zealand based artist who began teasing a new music last week Continue Reading
Paleface Swiss – Stick To Your Guns – Nasty // Louisville, KY // 4.4.25
Paleface Swiss with Stick To Your Guns and Nasty Mercury Ballroom Louisville, KY April 4th, 2025 Swiss deathcore band Paleface Swiss brought their ‘The Cursed Tour’ to Mercury Ballroom on April 4th to a sold out crowd! I remember seeing these guys last year opening for The Ghost Inside Continue Reading
The Used – 25 Year Anniversary Tour // Chicago, IL // 4.2.25
The Used House of Blues Chicago, IL April 2nd, 2025 It’s been twenty-five years since The Used’s formation and decades later they remain intrinsic to the identity of early 2000s emo music. In the year 2000, it would have been difficult to predict their current level of impact and significance. Continue Reading
Song Review – Chappell Roan’s newest single “The Giver” is a rootin’-tootin’ good time!
After its live debut on SNL back in November of 2024, Chappell Roan’s “The Giver” has had fans in an absolute frenzy awaiting the debut of a recorded version. Since the moment she entered the scene, Chappell has been a queer artist for the queers. “Your favorite pop star’s favorite Continue Reading
Ian // Louisville, KY // 3.2.25
Ian Mercury Ballroom Louisville, KY March 2nd, 2025 19-year-old St Louis rapper Ian took the stage at Mercury Ballroom on March 2nd to a sold out crowd! Although it is rare to attend a show with no opening act, Ian easily commanded the stage with a fun and high-energy Continue Reading
Palaye Royale – Johnnie Guilbert – Rock & Skate // Louisville, KY // 2.19.25
Palaye Royale with Johnnie Guilbert and Rock & Skate Mercury Ballroom Louisville, KY February 19th, 2025 Las Vegas rock band Palaye Royale brought their Death or Glory North American 2025 tour to Mercury Ballroom on February 19th for a nearly sold out show. Although with the amount of fans Continue Reading