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REVIEW: AViVA is exemplary of cut-and-paste alt-pop 

Whenever an artist performs better live than their studio music sounds, it is almost immediately bound to be an entertaining show. Thankfully, Australian artist AViVA’s…

Sex No Babies brings influential music to the new year

One recent Saturday afternoon, on the edge of Logan Square, Chicago producer Bento improvised beats that everyone in the basement bopped their head to. It…

Boye: Chicago’s queer indie-rock beauties

In search to rebrand their image and sound, singer and guitarist Wren Theriault created the Chicago-based indie-rock Boye in June 2018. It wasn’t until a…

Floof: The solo debut of a young musician

GROWING UP AS a son of Stephen Burns, a well-known trumpet virtuoso, Eddie Burns has been surrounded by music his entire life. As a drummer of the…

Music supports Chicago’s Puerto Rican community

In an almost empty music hall, the beats of plena — a type of music that comes from Puerto Rico — echo off the walls…

SWMRS at Concord Music Hall

Vibrant stage lights, electric guitar riffs and flailing limbs of enthusiastic moshers and crowd-surfers filled the Concord Music Hall on April 19 as fans celebrated…