Wednesday 13’s new album, Mid Death Crisis, is out now. The band will play Concord Music Hall with The Birthday Massacre and Lord of the Lost on January 31 st.

For Wednesday 13 [Joseph Michael Poole], horror and spooky things aren’t just a hobby. It’s his full-time job. There’s a reason he’s known as The Duke of Spook. For the past three decades, he’s been ...

Chicago’s own Brigitte Calls Me Baby is going back to where it all started. The band will preview new music from their upcoming album, Irreversible, during a special, intimate hometown show. The ...

Still riding high on the success of their fourth album, Frogs in Boiling Water, DIIV brings their dreamy shoegaze to Lincoln ...

Flip Side owners Carl and Larry Rosenbaum had three choices they were considering at the beginning of their careers. “Hot dog stand, a dry cleaner, or a record store,” Larry confirms. “And fortunately ...

For better or worse, that has become my patented gallows-humored, post-pandemic response to anyone who casually inquires how I’m doing. Based on the hilarious Monty Python Death Cart scene in The Holy ...

The last time Ville Valo performed at Chicago’s House of Blues he was reaching the end of a lengthy chapter in his life. HIM, the band he fronted for 25 years, was calling it quits. It was the last ...

It was a great lesson to learn during the pandemic: Sometimes, if you’re open to it, the Universe will reward you with small, subtle signs that everything — despite any outward appearances to the ...

Joan Esposito was known to Chicago audiences as a television reporter and anchor after her many years at Channel 5 & 7. Still, when she accepted the job as afternoon host at Progressive Talk WCPT (820 ...

2025 was a good year for devotees of audiophile vinyl and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab followers. The label reissued pristine pressings of albums reviewed in Illinois Entertainer, including Rick James’ ...

Alternative Press Music Awards and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Exhibit Report 2015 » ...

Review by Jeff Elbel. Photo gallery by Curt Baran. A batch of standalone songs also received symphonic flourish, including a feral “Who Are You.” Townshend sang lead vocal on the moody “Eminence Front ...