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This year’s free show lineup includes Waxahatchee, Caribou, Sons of Kemet / Makaya McCraven, black midi, Terence Blanchard, Sampa the Great, and more.

Handsome Boy Modeling School will celebrate Record Store Day and the vinyl reissue of ’So… How’s Your GIrl?’ with a show at NYC’s Brooklyn Bowl on Friday

Teenage Halloween, LAPÊCHE, SAVAK, Shilpa Ray and more are lined up to play the free, all-ages series which is presented by the New Colossus Festival.

Michelle Shocked plays Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens’ LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival today which has other artists and poets on the bill…

Chicago rippers Meat Wave have announced that they’ll be releasing the follow-up to their scorching 2012 self-titled LP, titled the Brother EP, on January 19 via newly-minted label Brace Yourself Records…

Liars @ Austin Psych Fest (more by Tim Griffin) Pitchfork Festival 2014 takes place next weekend in Union Park (July 18-20) and there are also a handful of fest aftershows at various venues throughout the city…

Courtney Barnett @ the Empty Bottle in February (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Melbourne singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett is currently in the midst of a summer North American tour…

Forest of Tygers, the Nashville husband n’ wife duo that deliver oodles of ‘oh my’ riffs, will be touring the South and East Coast shortly in support of Bruises, their new EP that’s a genre Voltron of many metals…

We’re currently in the midst of the 5th annual Chicago Craft Beer Week (May 15-25) and there are a wealth of beer-focused events happening throughout the city…

Morgan Delt @ Austin Psych Fest 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) Delightfully twisted Los Angeles psych rock auteur Morgan Delt welcomed his fantastic self-titled LP in late-January via Chicago’s own Trouble in Mind…