It’s become a beloved tradition: Each holiday season, LCD Soundsystem play a bunch of shows in New York City, their hometown. It started out as a residency at Brooklyn Steel then expanded to other boroughs last year. The band has also camped out in certain cities on tour, doing several nights in markets like Chicago, Seattle, Boston, P...

On Saturday, Bleachers performed at Chicago’s Salt Shed, bringing songs from last year’s self-titled to the stage. The indie pop band surprised the crowd with a cover of Lana Del Rey’s “Margaret” with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.

In retrospect, the entire idea of a Sufjan Stevens Broadway musical feels both far-fetched and inevitable. Last year, director/choreographer Justin Peck and playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Illinoise, an adaptation of Stevens’ 2005 classic Illinois, opened in Chicago. Last month, Illinoise came to New York. It’s c...

When the Chicago punk band Sludgeworth started in 1989, they were a Screeching Weasel side project. At the time, Sludgeworth singer Dan Schafer played bass and guitar in Screeching Weasel, and drummer Brian McQuaid was also in both bands. (Back then, Dan Schafer was known as Dan Vapid, and Brian McQuaid was Brian Vermin.) Pretty soon, both of t...

The Blood Brothers have announced their first tour in a decade. It’ll kick off this fall in San Francisco and run through the end of the year, wrapping up in Chicago. The band officially broke up in 2007, though they reunited for a handful of shows back in 2014. This tour will coincide with the 20th anniversary of Crimes, their 2004 LP...