Jonathan Richman
Wednesday 10/16 at The Southern Café and Music Hall In many ways, Jonathan Richman has traveled far from the emotive rock ‘n’ roll where he made his original splash with […]
An otherwise brilliant version of The Scottish Play
“We do it with the lights on,” says The American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse website about its use of “universal lighting.” So right up front you know that whatever you […]
STRFKR with Holy Wave and Happy Sad Face
Wednesday 9/25 at The Jefferson Theater It’s probably unfair to reduce a band that’s been plugging away in various forms since 2007 to wimpy dance music for disinterested millennials. It’s […]
Southern Culture on the Skids with The Woggles
Thursday 9/19 at The Southern Café and Music Hall Southern Culture on the Skids has been banging around its campy country-surf rockabilly for decades, with trio Mary Huff (bass, vocals), […]
Andrew Bird and Nickel Creek with Mike Viola
Ting Pavilion, July 17 Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird has been in a few noteworthy bands and has released or joined in on more records than we have space to discuss […]
Fridays after Five: Shagwüf with Holy Roller
Ting Pavilion, July 19 On its face, it seems awfully early in the evening to lose it for the kind of rock ’n’ roll you’ll get out of Shagwüf. Then […]
Achieving maximum heaviness and then some
A metal band in that they definitely sound “heavy” across a large swath of their six album, full-length catalog (big riffs, distorted guitars, emphatic and aggressive vocals), it’s helpful to […]
Look into it
Questions of intent and meaning loom palpably over a pair of exhibitions at Second Street Gallery: Josh Dorman’s “how strange it is to be anything at all” and “Dirty Mirror” […]
Old order, new visions: Rochelle Sumner and Will Kerner bring isolation out in the open
Ida Mitchell Puffenbarger wasn’t an artist. If she had any inclination, she likely didn’t have the time. With the bulk of her days spent cleaning, cooking, caring for her family, […]
Animal diversions: Creature titles we rescued from the canceled VA book fest
If you’re doing what you’re supposed to do (please say yes), you’re just staying home. For many of us, that means fattening comfort food and boozy evenings binge watching “Tiger […]