Four weeks from tomorrow, the summer’s best music festival kicks off in Chicago’s Grant Park, the home of Lollapalooza since 2005. Over the course of the weekend, 139 artists are scheduled to perform on 7 stages for an expected 90,000 music lovers per day. I will be among the sweaty masses, and in preparation I’ve [...]
You’re thirteen years old. You run into your bedroom clutching a new CD – or cassette tape, or vinyl, or 8-track, or whatever medium defined your era – and close the door. You start the music and lay down on your bed, closing your eyes. You listen. The drums start first, a slow rock beat, [...]
The Mary Onettes have been writing some of my favorite pop records over the last few years and recently they announced they’d be releasing another by the end of this month. However, Love Forever will be the first time they’re reportedly ditching their 80s guitars and echoey vocals in favor of more avant-garde themes. New [...]