Coverage of Music Festivals
Riot Fest 2024 – Where You Fit In
You prefer smooth sailing when you get to a certain age. Be it your career, relationships, or even...
Festival Coverage
Lollapalooza Is Dead – Long Live Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza sucks. Or at least that’s what I have been telling myself since 2019. I have been attending...
Pitchfork Music Festival – Chicago 2024
I don’t want to start my festival coverage on a downer, but I think all of us can...
Riot Fest 2023: A Restoration Of Power
Even as summer draws to a close, the Douglass Park neighborhood of Chicago isn’t ready to go quietly....
MAHA Music Festival: Meet Me In The Middle
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Flyover Country. That’s the areas on the map that have nothing of interest to the cultured crowd. However,...
Pitchfork Music Festival 2023 – The Sound of Evolution
Despite being over half done with the year, it never really feels like a Chicago summer until festival...
Pitchfork Music Festival 2023 – BGM PREVIEW
The sun is out, warming the landscape and its inhabitants. As the days grow longer and the nights...
Ska Punk International’s Chris Reeves Talks About SPI Fest
In the 1993 film Wayne’s World 2, Wayne Campbell has a dream. In that dream, Jim Morrison tells...
The Joy Formidable vs The Keytar – A Riot Fest Conversation
Throughout all 3 days of Riot Fest 2022, the near 100-artists deep lineup featured plenty of guitar music....
Riot Fest 2022 – Defy The Past and Define The Future
In all my years covering Riot Fest for this publication, the word nostalgia comes up the most. I...