Tag Archives: Illinois

Chicago based grunge infused, heavy rock trio DEAD ORIGINAL has released the official music video for their new single, “Restrained,” the third track off of their upcoming, debut LP, Bought and Sold. Front-man and lead guitarist Paul Wandtke (ex Trivium, Rock of Ages), bassist Mike Petrasek (BEDLEM), and drummer Sean McCole are releasing their debut album on Nov 13th via InGrooves under …

Major league baseball players have reported for Spring Training…and so have The Black Crowes! Fresh off their announcement of their recent reunion and upcoming summer tour, where they will perform their hit debut album Shake Your Moneymaker in its entirety, the brothers Robinson, Chris and Rich, have embarked on a …

Chicago based, Progressive Rock duo COYOTE MAN has released their new instrumental track, “Perilous,” the first single off of their upcoming, sophomore album, Precognition. “From the beginning structure of the song it really gave us a dark presence and meaning if you will. A sort of dark truth with our economy at the …

90’s rock juggernaut Soul Asylum are back in 2020 with a new album, Hurry Up And Wait, which is due out 4/17/20. The band are out on tour in anticipation of the new release, and stopped into Chicago’s Metro on Valentine’s Day to air out old SA classics as well …

You might suspect that if the offspring of members of the Allman Brothers band got together, something good might come of it. And you’d be right! Devon Allman and Duane Betts’ group, The Allman Betts Band, begins a new musical legacy for the musicians with a rich musical family heritage. …

Progressive metal group, Sons of Apollo, has returned with their second album, MMXX (2020), which builds upon the foundation they laid with 2018’s Psychotic Symphony. And the group is also building upon the chemistry they developed while out supporting their previous album, on their new tour, which started at the …

Former Enuff Z’nuff singer, Donnie Vie, has a beautiful “new thing”, a recent (released in mid 2019) solo album entitled Beautiful Things. Vie told the crowd gathered at Fitzgerald’s on 1/4/20 that it was his first rock show in 5 years, and there was some rust… he related he was …

The world needs more Pete Yorns: singer/songwriters who actually play instruments, have unique voices (literally and figuratively), and who make good music. A novel concept in a time of more disposable music than ever before, right? My first exposure to Pete Yorn was his debut album, Musicforthemorningafter, back in 2001. …