The confluence of baseball with all kinds of heavy music—namely punk, hardcore and grindcore—has spawned outsider art that is deeply offbeat, thoughtfully woke and, more… Read more
Category: Music
March 8, 1994 was the Midnight Madness to rule them all: the unveiling of both Nine Inch Nails’ ‘The Downward Spiral’ and Soundgarden’s ‘Superunknown’. Read more
Hot off the grill, it's a new music video from Clutch for their single “Ghoul Wrangler” from their latest album ‘Book Of Bad Decisions’. Read more
Chicago's Jerry Bryant, legendary host of JBTV Music Television, has helped so many artists and musicians throughout his 34 year career. Now it's our turn… Read more
It's Valentine's Day and since almost every song is about falling in love, or falling out of love, or doing drugs, or doing each other,… Read more
Did you forget about Valentine's Day or are you just too cheap to buy a card for your boo? Either way we’ve got you covered… Read more
Dookie came out 25 years ago this month. Yours truly was 17, and like most 17-year-olds without a Cool Older Bro to tell me what… Read more
This Sunday in Chicago, Smoking Popes will be opening up for Naked Raygun and Jawbreaker at Aragon Ballroom. Recently, our friends at Jaded in Chicago… Read more
Throughout the show, Franklin’s genuine adoration for Chicago was front and center. It is here, after all, where she famously earned her “Queen of Soul”… Read more
As our friends at Pitchfork Music Festival get Union Park ready for their big party this weekend, us Riot Fest folks have been carefully studying… Read more
By day, Dane Erbach is an educator of curious minds, teaching high school English (specifically, creative writing and journalism) in suburban Chicago. By night, Erbach… Read more
The year was 1997, or 1998, or 1999. It was certainly pre-millennium, but definitely post-Green Day’s Dookie changing everything for me like Nirvana’s Nevermind changed everything for… Read more