Articles filed under Guarino, Mark
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Moby returns to the DJ booth for 'Last Night'
Nov 3, 2021 3:26 PM - Moby became America's favorite DJ thanks to "Play," a 1999 smash he followed up with albums that spanned electro-pop to strummed singer-songwriter fare. On the sample-heavy dance-floor blues and chilled techno of "Last Night" (Mute), he steps back inside the DJ booth. -
Local bands make mark with spring releasesNov 3, 2021 10:04 AM - With spring fast approaching, it's time to look at area bands that hold major promise for the new year. Here are a few recent releases that deserve further inquiry, and soon.
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Concert picks
Nov 2, 2021 11:00 AM - Von Bondies with SSM and Freer, 9 p.m. today at the Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace St., Chicago. $12/$15. (773) 478-4408. -
Happy birthday, Thrill Jockey!
Nov 1, 2021 10:59 PM - The single absolute for Chicago's Thrill Jockey Records is that there is no absolute. The record label turns 15 this year, and while retrospectives are inevitable -- the label is issuing a box set of seven-inch recordings of its artists covering each other's songs -- the label refuses to stay in one place long enough to get nostalgic. -
Local music you should know about
Nov 1, 2021 10:12 PM - The Chicago music scene never rests. Here's the best of recent releases by musicians and bands located in our back yard. -
Concert picksNov 1, 2021 10:05 PM - WLUP 97.9-FM air personality and Chicago radio veteran Jonathan Brandmeier is on the loose once again with a theater show that should revive memories of the late 1980s when he could fill the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre and Poplar Creek.
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Old Town School of Folk Music: 50 years and county
Nov 1, 2021 9:04 PM - Folk music is one of Chicago's greatest and most-lasting musical traditions, starting in the 1950s when a group of academics and progressives held concerts, published songs, and revived interest in rural folk melodies and the Southern country blues. -
Neil Young rich, varied but workmanlike in first of two shows
Nov 1, 2021 6:42 PM - The Chicago Theatre became a facsimile of Neil YoungÂ's legendary barn in Northern California, or at least a mythologized version of that workspace. Large canvases propped on easels, announcing the songs in paint. -
Pete Doherty makes a case for musicNov 1, 2021 4:12 PM - Anyone keeping on top of celebrity news is well aware of Pete Doherty, Britain's most famous face on the courthouse steps.
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Plain old Sinead shines
Nov 1, 2021 10:28 AM - As the concert hall was ornate, the singer dressed plainly. Balconies rose to the rafters but the singer didn't see them, instead, she sang mostly to the stage floor.
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