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!

  For the record, I went into 2017 with an intention to try something different and step out of my comfort zone to attend events outside of Chicago.  Not that I never traveled, but it was normally meant as a work thing or a family thing.  It was absolutely never a thing where I sacrificed […]

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! […]

The bustle that was Bonnaroo 2017 did not overwhelm the sweet sounds of LA artist Ethan Gruska.  It was the final day of the festival and we were able to chat with Ethan before his performance.  His debut album “Slowmotionary,” he explained as “how economical I can make it” with pure piano and just his […]

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 […]