Heatwave Music Festival Returns to Chicago’s Northerly Island: Two Days of Nonstop Music, Dancing, and Summer Vibes! FESTIVALS PREVIEW by Charles Yamabe - May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 Chicago, IL Chicago's annual music extravaganza, Heatwave Music Festival, is back with a bang, promising two days of electrifying performances, unforgettable moments, and nonstop fun to kick off the festival season. Taking place on June 10th and 11th, 2023, at the picturesque Northerly Island, this year's lineup is set to be
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss // Live @The Louisville Palace Theater // 5.2.2023 #Grammy Winners CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - May 11, 2023May 17, 2023 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Louisville KY- As happens so often at this particular venue, an artist looks out from the stage, around the gorgeous renaissance style theater with fond recognition, pleasant memories. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss shared their own recollections, with Krauss recalling that she had recorded
ZZ Top // Live @The Louisville Palace Theater // 4.8.2023 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - April 17, 2023 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Louisville KY-- ZZ Top brought their iconic Texas blues-rock repertoire to a small but heroically dedicated audience at the Louisville Palace Theater. This was the second date on this piece of their "Raw Whiskey" tour and the first time the band has played in Louisville
Tab Benoit // Live @ Headliners // 12.16.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - January 3, 2023 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Louisville KY— I had been listening to this guy’s music for a few days trying to figure out an approach to the upcoming concert. Tab Benoit has been touring nonstop, more or less, for the past five years, save six months off the road
Sad night Dynamite // Live at Lincoln Hall // 11.23.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED by Charles Yamabe - December 17, 2022December 17, 2022 Article and Photos by: Charles Yamabe Chicago, IL -- Imagine the Gorillaz met Blink 182 and they had a baby. Then that baby grew up and became a rowdy British punk rocker... That combination of musical genres would give you the band known as Sad Night Dynamite. The duo consists of
Phantoms // Live at the House of Blues // 11.19.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED Uncategorized by Charles Yamabe - December 7, 2022 Article and Photos by: Charles Yamabe Chicago, IL -- It's a Saturday night in November, and Chicago is seeing the coldest day of the winter it has seen so far this year. To compound the frightful weather, Chicago had just come off an unusually warm streak. Those two factors made it
Michael Schenker Group // Live @ Bogarts // 10.29.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - November 10, 2022November 11, 2022 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Cincinnati, OH—How can a 67 year-old heavy metal guitarist be fronting a 50th Year Anniversary tour? Michael Schenker began working with his brother’s band, the Scorpions, when he was only 11 years old, and joined officially when he was 17. That’s how! As part
ARC FESTIVAL 2022- AFTER PARTIES PREVIEW PREVIEW by Charles Yamabe - August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 Chicago IL, -- Following the announcement of their full lineup, ARC Music Festival has now shared the details for their official ARC After Dark Parties while also announcing a group of rare back-to-back sets that will be taking place at the festival over Labor Day Weekend. ARC is set to return to
Gojira // Live @ White Oak Music Hall // 4.30.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Ommar Ortuvia - May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Article and Photos by: Ommar Ortuvia Houston, TX -- If you are a movie buff and enjoy tokusatsu and kaiju films, you might know the word Gojira as the original Japanese title for the 1954 classic “Godzilla," but if you're a hard rock and metal fan, you know Gojira as the
Lilith Czar // Live @ The NorVa // 4.25.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Wendy Podmenik Woodell - April 26, 2022 Article and photos by: Wendy Podmenik Woodell NORFOLK, VA-- Concert season is kicking into high gear and with that, both new artists and artists that have expanded creatively over the past two years are now front and center. Enter Lilith Czar- her Instagram proudly says it all, “Juliet Simms is gone,
