In general, all North American festivals (QRO Festival Guide) fall into a genre. There's the jam-band fests, headlined by acts related to Phish and/or The Grateful Dead, with patchouli and weed in...
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The fall of the Iron Curtain and eastward expansion of the EU has had many benefits, both to the people of Eastern Europe and also to the West. One of those has been the eastern welcome of such...
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Chicago's premiere celebration of musical weirdness returns for a triumphant second summer. All the same face melting noise, electronic mayhem, and experimental film, with a different venue. Goodbye Viaduct Theater (we'll miss your avant garde black boxiness, but...
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Iowa, and even biggest city Des Moines, has long had trouble getting bands, despite the state's historic reputation for hospitality, as acts preferred to stick to the bigger cities in neighboring states, such as Chicago & Minneapolis. Iowa...
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For the past decade, more and...
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Brooklyn rocks once again as the neighborhoods of Williamsburg & Greenpoint welcome the third annual Northside Festival. L Magazine's festival takes places at venues in the northern part of Brooklyn, June 16th to 19th, with the best...
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Neon Marshmallow is upon us! The Chicago experimental music festival returns for its second summer, June 10th to 12th, promising a mix of drone and buzz that will startle and compel. This year's edition continues Neon Marshmallow's penchant...
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Blackout Fest went down in Chicago this Memorial Day weekend, showcasing more than a dozen bands young and old in the industrial confines of the Velvet Perineum. The brainchild of the event, former ‘zine-turned-label HOZAC Records, curated the...
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Off the southern tip of Manhattan, but closer to Brooklyn than Jersey (unlike poseurs Liberty & Ellis Islands...), Governors Island has struggled to raise its profile since the Coast Guard base there was closed in 1996 (hey, Smothers Brothers...
