THE BIG WEEKEND ANNOUNCES  HEADCOUNT + PROPELLER FLY AWAY CONTEST + MEET AND GREET WITH UMPHREY’S MCGEE INAUGURAL FESTIVAL TAKES OVER CHICAGO OCT 4-6 FIVE VENUES, THREE NIGHTS – ONE BIG WEEKEND  THE BIG WEEKEND will take place over three nights across five music venues in Chicago from Oct 4 – 6. Following the model of a city takeover, the inaugural festival will feature performances […]

Music Tastes Good has announced the mega-addition of Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and performer Janelle Monáe as main support on the lineup for day 2, on Sunday, September 30. Known for her groundbreaking sound and daring style, Monáe joins previously announced acts New Order, James Blake, Broken Social Scene, The Black Angels, Joey Bada$$, Santigold, Princess Nokia, Lizzo, Parquet […]

    Ruido Fest returns to Chicago’s Addams- Meddill Park for its fourth consecutive year! This 3 day celebration of Latin music and culture will take place in downtown Chicago on June 22nd, 23rd and 24th   The three day festival, known for blurring international borders and reaching US Latino + Latin American and music […]

Here is round 2 of my festival coverage from LouFest in St. Louis and Pilgrimage Festival in Franklin, Tennessee.  This is Halfstack Magazine’s annual Giving Issue where I also contributed articles on two businesses that have created a successful model of giving on top of creating innovative product.  Happy reading!

Consider Riot Fest as the punk/goth/overall culturally different cousin that may or may not be adopted to the family of festivals that exists on the concert family tree.  It’s been quite a few years since I last attended a Riot Fest on home turf, but it felt overdue from chaos of southern festivals.  Douglas Park […]

  Tonight we make our way to LouFest 2017 and the city of St. Louis is opening the festival weekend with LouFestU; a party honoring Chuck Berry for college students!  New features have been added in lieu of tonight’s opening presentations.  Here are the deets:   More special guests added to Hail! Hail! Chuck Berry! […]

In case you didn’t know…myself and my photographer Alex went on a trek to cover Bonnaroo this year!  Aside from the sun and heat, there was some major acts that we couldn’t miss.  We’ve covered a lot of acts and had a handful of interviews that we will be bringing to you both here on […]