Wicker Park Festival

Hop Along @ Brooklyn Bazaar in March (more by Amanda Hatfield) Philly indie-rockers Hop Along, who just finished up a tour with Owls, are slated to tag Chicago this weekend for a performance at Wicker Park Fest 2014...

Rockford, IL post-hardcore band The Felix Culpa formed back in 2003 and put out two full lengths and a few EPs during their career before signing with No Sleep in 2011 and reissuing their 2010 self-released Sever Your Roots LP on the label...

Cults @ NYC's Terminal 5, December 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As discussed, Cults will be heading to Chicago in July to perform on Saturday (7/27) of Wicker Park Fest 2013...

Memphis, TN's Reigning Sound began to track their Merge Records debut at the famed Daptone Records studio last month. Details on the album are sparse, but it's nice to know that it will arrive sometime in the near future...

today in Chicago * Wicker Park Fest (Day 2) * Bon Iver, The Rosebuds @ Chicago Theatre * Three Oh Sees, Football @ IL Centennial Monument (Free Show w/ RSVP) * The Dear Hunter, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground, O'Brother, The Felix Culpa @ Lincoln Hall What else...

words, photos, and video Wild Flag, an all-girl quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney), Mary Timony (Helium), Rebecca Cole (the Minders), and Janet Weiss (Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks) played their first-ever Chicago show this past Friday (7/22) at Subterranean...

Wavves @ McCarren Park in Brooklyn, NY (more by Tamara Porras) today in Chicago * Wicker Park Fest (Day 1) * Viva Brother, The Kickback @ Schubas * Alps @ Permanent Records (Free; In-store) * Thee Oh Sees, Paul Cary, Absolutely Not @ Empty Bottle * Wavves, Lasers and Fast and Shit, Love of Everything @ Subterranean Three Oh Sees also play the IL Centennial Monument in Logan Sq...

FRIDAY Wild Flag, Mickey, and Radar Eyes are playing Subterranean. Sia, Oh Land, and Ximena Sarinana are playing Metro. Sonny & The Sunsets, The Sandwitches, and Michael Lux & The Bad Sons are playing the Empty Bottle...

STREAM: Dastardly - "Villain" (MP3) Chicago's own Dastardly have been steadily growing their now expansive fan base since the December 2010 release of their debut LP May You Never...

Portland, OR's Blitzen Trapper are gearing up for the release of their sixth LP American Goldwing, out September 13th via Sub Pop Records...