All of your favorite core bands can in some way, shape, or form draw a line back to Converge. Jane Doe is one of the most important records in metalcore history, and for the same band 23 years later still putting out as important and relevant material as Love Continue Reading
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Mayday Parade – Tallahassee, FL – 06.07.25
Words & Photos by Brandy Jarmacz Mayday Parade – Three Cheers for 20 Years Tour Finale Saturday night, Mayday Parade wrapped up their Three Cheers for 20 Years Tour with a sold-out hometown show at The Moon in Tallahassee, Florida—a full-circle moment for the band. The Moon, an iconic venue Continue Reading
Arm’s Length // Chicago, IL // 6.9.25
Arm’s Length There’s a Whole World Out There Release Show w/ Charmer & Wakelee Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL June 9, 2025 For most bands, it takes quite some time to get their feet off the ground before they’re playing sold-out shows in other countries. For Canadian emo band Arm’s Length, this is Continue Reading
Pierce the Veil’s I Can’t Hear You Tour w/ Sleeping with Sirens, Beach Weather // Tinley Park, IL // 6.7.25
Pierce the Veil w/ Sleeping with Sirens, Beach Weather at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL 06.07.2025 When a band has been around for nearly twenty years, odds are that they’re either surpassing their peak success, or just getting into it. For Pierce the Veil, it is most certainly Continue Reading
GALLERY: Bikini Kill – 08.30.24 – Chicago, IL
Bikini Kill Salt Shed Chicago, IL August 30, 2024
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Departments: The Anthology Review
Taylor Swift reigns supreme as literary queen and department head on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. Released this past Friday, The Tortured Poets Department, which quickly (note, within two hours) became The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, has already broken all-time streaming records including most streams by one album Continue Reading
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness // Chicago, IL // 12.08.23
The New Friends Tour Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness w/ Michigander, Wildermiss Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL December 8, 2023 Very few artists can transition through projects, through albums, through decades, and still have the lasting power to perform tour after tour. Andrew McMahon is one of those artists. The New Continue Reading
Le Tigre // Chicago, IL // 7.15.23
Le Tigre w/ MAN ON MAN Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed July 15, 2023 Photos and Review by Nina Tadic Le Tigre is a Girl Scoutcore, funky, fun feminist dream to witness. On their first full tour since 2005, the band took to Chicago’s Salt Shed this past Saturday Continue Reading
Shania Twain // Tinley Park, IL // 07.01.23
Shania Twain Credit Union 1 Ampitheatre Tinley Park, IL Review and Photos by Nina Tadic Shania Twain proves she is a reigning queen of country yet again with her Queen of Me Tour in Tinley Park. Over the past three decades, Shania has been turning out single after single, and Continue Reading
Beach Weather // Chicago, IL // 06.20.23
Beach Weather House of Blues Chicago, IL June 20, 2023 Review and Photos by Nina Tadic Alternative indie outfit Beach Weather has got it down – their sound, their aesthetic, their energy – and it shows the second they hit the stage. Opening for Lovelytheband., on their current US tour, Continue Reading
Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour is Every Swiftie’s Wildest Dream
Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Ford Field Detroit, MI June 10, 2022 Words and Images by Nina Tadic* *captioned photos courtesy of TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour is something out of every Swiftie’s Wildest Dreams. Hours before the start of every show, fans are lined up Continue Reading
Bikini Kill – Milwaukee, WI – 04.19.23
Is feminism dead? Is punk dead? Is riot grrrl a thing of the past? Not even close, and Bikini Kill is the living, breathing proof. Taking the stage at the gorgeous Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee on Tuesday, these women brought all the same energy as a lightning storm, and did Continue Reading