The Numbers Don’t Lie: Millennials Like Old Rock (Way) More Than They Like Their Own
To say rock music as we know it is “dead” may be a bit of an overstatement. But one look at the Top Rock Albums chart in Billboard (dated June…
Revival: Chicago’s 34th Annual Gospel Music Festival – A “Praise Party In The Rain”
Gospel music is said by some to have originated in Chicago – mainly because its earliest professional recordings were here. And in any other year, the annual Chicago Gospel Music…
Movie Review: Aretha’s ‘Amazing Grace’ – How Sweet The Sight
By January 1972, Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin had firmly established herself as the First Lady of Music, with no other being her equal. In just five short years with…
The Who Rock Chicagoland in Orchestral Fashion!
A cold damp night in an outdoor pavilion in Chicagoland isn’t the most ideal setting for a rock band fronted by two septuagenarians and backed by a full symphony orchestra…
Stuck in the Beatles’ Tracks – The No. 2 Songs They Blocked from the Top
(May 13, 2019). Everyone who knows anything about the Beatles knows that they hold the record for having the most No. 1 songs in American chart history with 20. Their…