Pitchfork Music Festival – Chicago 2024
I don’t want to start my festival coverage on a downer, but I think all of us can...
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Better late than never: The Best of the Last of 2023
A “best of the last two months of the year” list to offer the appropriate justice and consideration for those artists dropping great shit super late.
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...
Pitchfork Music Festival 2019 | Unity and Perseverance
For 14 years in a row, Pitchfork Music Festival has taken over Chicago’s Union Park. From local stars...
Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 – Culture and Curation
Coop covers Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 and discusses how it manages to celebrate community, culture, and curation while still managing to be fun.
The Vilification of Yuck – In Defense of a Critically Battered Indie Rock Band
After soaking up critical love following their self-titled debut, Yuck has encountered increasing amounts of malice from critics, here's why BGM disagrees.
Album Review: Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
Sun Kil Moon's Universal Themes isn’t interesting. It’s insulting. At its core, this an album that assumes its listener is an idiot.
Album Review: Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Do yourself and the world of music a favor; buy I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit and help push Courtney Barnett up the music charts. 5 out of 5!
Album Review: A Place to Bury Strangers – Transfixation
A Place to Bury Strangers latest album Transfixation, unfortunately, ends up being a rather unmoving, mostly uninspired, definitely uninteresting listen.