Cover Story: Alison Moyet • Legacy is Overrated
Cover Story: Alison Moyet • Legacy is Overrated| Illinois Entertainer
Cover Story: Alison Moyet • Legacy is Overrated| Illinois Entertainer
Media: January 2025 • Gone, But Not Forgotten| Illinois Entertainer
Stage Buzz: NYE: Lake Street Dive, Local H, Laura Jane Grace, Mr. Blotto| Illinois Entertainer
Advertiser Message: Drive Well Auto Spa • Mount Prospect| Illinois Entertainer
Stage Buzz: Daughtry, Suki Waterhouse, The Effigies, Trans-Siberian Orchestra| Illinois Entertainer
Live Review and Gallery: Andrew Bird’s Gezelligheid • Fourth Presbyterian Church • Chicago| Illinois Entertainer
Stage Buzz: Twisted Xmas: Smashing Pumpkins, All American Rejects, plus Umphrey’s McGee| Illinois Entertainer
Live Review: Lou Gramm All Stars • Arcada Theatre • St. Charles| Illinois Entertainer
Singer-songwriter Buck Curran offers the aptly named One Evening and Other Folk Songs as a snapshot of creative evolution since 2020’s No Love is Sorrow. Learned quickly and captured mostly in intuitive live takes in an Italian studio, these psychedelic folk songs find Curran and keyboardist Jodi Pedrali in communion with drummer Dave Barbarossa (Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant). The tone is intimate, confessional, and troubled. “We can run, but there’s nowhere to hide,” sings Curran on the moo...| Illinois Entertainer
Thompson Twins’ fourth album, Into the Gap, is one of the emblematic New Wave albums of the ‘80s. The album was a creative, cultural, and commercial smash that saturated radio and then-influential MTV. The album’s indelible singles include a song of reconciliation, “Hold Me Now,” the moody and amorous “Doctor, Doctor,” and the battered but hopeful “You Take Me Up.” Initially released in February 1984, the multi-platinum selling album was still a force in pop culture during ...| Illinois Entertainer
The originally clandestine gothic rockers Neon Horse released a second full-length album called Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance, and Delusion in 2009. Already about as underground as they come, the band went further underground. Fifteen years later, the disbanded band has re-banded to lob this Molotov cocktail of four songs through unsuspecting record shop windows before careening around the corner, cackling and racing out of sight again. The brutal but tuneful set draws dire elements ...| Illinois Entertainer
Cover Story: The Effigies • The Spirit of the Scene| Illinois Entertainer
Media: December 2024 • Chicago “Hearts” Billy Gardell| Illinois Entertainer
Spins: The Beatles • 1964 US Albums in Mono 8xLP Box Settings| Illinois Entertainer
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