2024 December : Illinois Entertainer
Dec 30, 2024 · Every year, I write a piece about the people that we lost in the Chicago media world the previous year. We lost some great talent in 2024. Bob Newhart (July) If you’re my age or younger, you don’t remember a time when Bob Newhart was not famous.
Live Review: Lou Gramm All Stars • Arcada Theatre • St. Charles
Dec 5, 2024 · Singer and songwriter Lou Gramm returned to his regular haunt at the Arcada Theatre to warm up a cold Thursday night in December. The original voice of newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Foreigner delivered 80 minutes of the band’s classic rock favorites, including “Cold as Ice ...
2024 November - Illinois Entertainer
Nov 26, 2024 · At its outset, 2023 looked to be an unexpected banner year for Chicago punk-scene legends The Effigies. COVID had finally waned, national concert attendance had rebounded, and the once-moribund music business itself was on a creative upswing — a perfect backdrop for Burned, the band’s latest (fifth) album, a …
Live Review: BEAT at Copernicus Center - Illinois Entertainer
Nov 1, 2024 · BEAT. Copernicus Center. Chicago, IL. November 1, 2024. Review by Steven Kikoen. Photos from San Diego by Marc Glassman. Flashback to the Fall of 1981 when I was asked by friends to join them in attending a concert at the Park West Theatre in Chicago to catch the newest incarnation of one of the preeminent progressive rock bands known to …
Cover Story: The Effigies • The Spirit of the Scene
Nov 30, 2024 · At its outset, 2023 looked to be an unexpected banner year for Chicago punk-scene legends The Effigies. COVID had finally waned, national concert attendance had rebounded, and the once-moribund music business itself was on a creative upswing — a perfect backdrop for Burned, the band’s latest (fifth) album, a surprise power-chorded treat for longtime fans that it had just finished tracking ...
Media: September 2024 • Rewound Radio : Illinois Entertainer
Aug 31, 2024 · Once again, Rewound Radio (rewoundradio.com) is spending the entire Labor Day Weekend featuring classic shows from WLS and WCFL from the 1960s and 1970s.Ted Gorden Smucker is the man behind the plan. “When I was a kid, I loved radio and TV,” Smucker explains, “and when I was probably around sixth, seventh grade or so, I got a cassette recorder, one of the first in our area, and I ended ...
Live Review and Photo Gallery: Hoodoo Gurus at Thalia Hall • …
Sep 18, 2024 · Hoodoo Gurus . Thalia Hall. Chicago, IL. Wednesday, September 18, 2024. Review and photos by Jeff Elbel. Australian rockers the Hoodoo Gurus, and their fans have plenty to celebrate in 2024.
Stage Buzz: Heavy Chicago Fest November 1, 2 and 3
By Kelley Simms. Heavy Chicago returns to Avondale Music Hall in this weekend for a second consecutive year. Last year’s festival was considered a rousing success, and this year’s fest is already living up to its prestige.
Media: October 2024 • Chicago’s Very Own Dean Richards
Sep 30, 2024 · Dean Richards had an entire career before he started working at WGN-TV. He had been working in radio for nearly twenty years at stations like WFYR, WCFL, WIND, WCLR, WNUA, and WGN Radio.
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Stage Buzz: NYE: Lake Street Dive, Local H, Laura Jane Grace, Mr. Blotto. Lake Street Dive will perform a pair of New Year’s Eve shows at Salt Shed.