By: Carmel O'Farrell - @carmelocorn| Photo: Kristine CondonLike a fleeting circus, Summer Camp Music Festival comes around but once a year just as the weather starts to change and pale skinned music fans emerge from winter hibernation. For many like myself, this festival is a tradition and over the years we've become addicted to the...

Earlier this month, I had so much fun summarizing new tracksthat hadn't yet made it to Spotify, I've decided to make it a regular feature. I've even named it. I'm calling it Beyondify, and hope to publish every few weeks to let you know about under-the-radar tracks that you've got to dig a little to...

By: @WeirScrewedJason Isbell and his band The 400 Unit played to a sold out crowd at the Chicago Theatre on Saturday night. Although Isbell toured extensively around Southeastern, this was the first time his full band (including Isbell's wife and violin player Amanda Shires Isbell) had played Chicago since the release of the Grammy-winningSomething More than...

Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge- Twelve Reasons To Die II [7/10]Combining a fictitious action storyline, a spaghetti-western sound and Ghostfaces notoriously gruff delivery, Twelve Reasons To Die II exceeds the boundaries of modern hip-hop. Organs, bass and live drum sounds make up the majority of the beats with guitar, bells and other instruments coming in...

Two Brothers Brewery is raising the stakes once again for its annual summer music festival with a pair of A+ headliners and some rock solid support on Saturday.Top-lining this year's event will be Jason Isbell (Saturday, June 27), one of the finest songwriters presently working, who will bring his band and it's Southern Rock / Country...

Symphony Hall proved to be a lovely venue for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Although this show was performed without Amanda Shires on Violin, there was plenty of powerful and engaging music to complement the impressive performance space.Here's the full setlist followed by three outstanding videos shot by Sojahsey1.Flying Over WaterStockholmDecoration DayTour of...

Here's a follow up to our Best Of The First Half of 2013 post. Thanks again to @WeirScrewed for contributing the first part of this list (the six albums with the more detailed write-ups).I (Steve - @thebarnpresents) have added some additional selections, and some one-liners of my own, at the end of the post. You...

On the site of a former Latin music club, Chicago's newest venue -- Concord Music Hall -- will open up on Milwaukee Avenue tonight with a performance by Adam Ant.Mr. Ant doesn't get us too excited, but some of the initially announced bookings sure do. And given that the enterprise is being booked by...

I am an unabashed fan of the This Is My Jam music sharing / discovery site. So much so that I've been pretty regular about selecting a "jam" and have even used this blog to collect and publish periodic summaries of my favorites (there are currently five volumes: one,two, three,four, and five).This post...