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Music (Free Tickets) AWOLNATION Live on Jimmy Kimmel Tomorrow

September 6, 2011 - 5:35 pm

AWOLNATION will make their network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! September 7th. The band will perform 5 songs on the outdoor stage including the hit single “Sail,” which just broke into the top 5 on the U.S. alternative radio charts and reached #1 on the Canadian Alternative charts, where it’s been certified Gold. The single is on sale this week for $.69 on iTunes and the album will be featured at Best Buy’s ‘Find ‘Em First’ endcap for $5.99. AWOLNATION are currently on tour in support of their debut album Megalithic Symphony, released on Red Bull Records earlier this year.

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Gallery Music Suicide Machines Send Out An S.O.S.

by Joe Gall

April 13, 2011 - 11:06 am

S.O.S. we need help….

“Now this is what Detroit’s all about! People coming together to help each other, not luxury cars and Eminem,” shouted Jason Navarro, as The Suicide Machines took the stage.

Saturday night resurrected the ska-core legends as they headlined a sold out benefit show for 29 year old Drew Podgorski. Everyone knows Drew as a staple of the Detroit punk community and an all around solid dude. Last December, a rare stroke left him partially paralyzed and buried beneath medical bills.

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Gallery Music Linkin Park and The Prodigy Bridge the Gap at Staples Center

by Rich Thomas and E.M.S.

February 25, 2011 - 2:09 pm

When Linkin Park released their latest album, A Thousand Suns, longtime fans had a bit of a meltdown. The diehards wanted so much to embrace its heavily electronic undertones and conceptual themes, but for many, their loyalty to the style LP helped pioneer with albums like Hybrid Theory and Meteora was just too strong. For me, a longtime electronic music fan, the change was a bold step in the right direction. So when it came time for Linkin Park to take their show on the road, a pairing with dance music kingpins The Prodigy at Staples Center in Los Angeles felt like a reinforcement of that new path.

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Gallery Music Nikka Costa Gets Funky at The Roxy

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing

January 25, 2011 - 9:03 am

Thursday night, The Roxy was packed with fans sliding as close to the curtain as possible, fighting tooth and nail for front row status. As I waited for Nikka Costa to take the stage, I flashed back to when I saw her perform in 2005 when she toured with Lenny Kravitz in support of her album “Can’tneverdidnothin.” She put on quite a show then and I expected nothing less, six years later, from the feisty singer. Nikka knows how to work over an audience. She has to; music is in her blood. She is, after all, the daughter of renowned arranger/producer Don Costa, and more importantly the goddaughter of ‘”Ol’ Blue Eyes” himself, aka Frank Sinatra.

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Gallery Music Red Bull Big Tune Welcomes Black Milk to Chicago

by Max Herman

November 19, 2010 - 12:34 pm

Let’s just get this out of the way: hip-hop shows, more than any other genre, regularly feature an absurd amount of waiting before the headliner you went to see finally hits the stage—often after midnight. Some of the opening acts or DJs you see beforehand might be good and you may even be hyped to have been introduced to them, but when it takes four hours before the main act steps on stage, shit can get old. With this in mind, Black Milk’s last minute, Red Bull Big Tune pre-show in Chicago at Reggie’s Rock Club was as close to ideal as you can get.

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Music INNERPARTYSYSTEM Play the Music Box

by Barbie Brady and Dustin Downing

September 23, 2010 - 11:39 am

INNERPARTYSYSTEM played the Henry Fonda Music Box in Hollywood Tuesday night supporting Does It Offend You Yeah? and Kele. When I entered the packed room they were already in possession of the stage like they had always been there, making it there own. The sound enveloped the room like a lovers embrace. Drawing the eager crowd forward into the synchronized light show. Only this lover wasn’t looking you in the eye, cooing he loves you. This lover held you in a passionate embrace, timing his motions with yours, unapologetically romancing you into submission. This live show left you hot and bothered, somewhat satisfied but yet wanting more.

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Gallery Music Sex, Drugs, and Sunglasses: Hard Fest 2010

by Dustin Downing

August 9, 2010 - 1:07 pm

A pupilometer is a device which is used by an ophthalmologist to test the response of a person’s pupil to visual stimuli. Ya know that hole in your eyeball that a friendly police officer tends to enjoy shining a light in when you’ve had 2 or 16 beers. It’s been determined that the amount of dilation of the pupil in the eye can be proportional to the amount of particular interest in a subject. The size of dilation indicates an increase in mental processes, but the speed of dilation can also be a sign of drug use or intoxication. I.e. Mr. Flashlight. HARD fest was this weekend in La-La land and I decided that this would be an opportune time to study this very phenomena my scientific self. But, with a camera flash. The following gallery I believe will duly support my early hypothesis: I believe the crowd will be very into the show and thus pupils will be dilated to reflect said peeked interest. Either that or as one police officer in attendance relayed to me, “These f#@king kids are whacked out of their GD minds”…

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