EVENT REVIEWSZach Bryan Turns Gillette Stadium Into a Marathon Country Showcase as He Opens Two Sold-Out Foxborough Shows With Gabriella Rose and Gregory Alan Isakov INDUSTRY NEWS & TRENDSWale Vents About the Music Business in a Raw Twitter Journal Entry, Calling It a Hamster Wheel After Nearly 20 Years and Another Album Cycle FESTIVALS AND MUSIC EVENTSTotally Rad Vintage Fest Brings Vintage Vendors, Rare Style Finds and Fans From Far Away to Indiana State Fairgrounds Stop on Nationwide Tour UPCOMING EVENTS AND TOURS Federal Judge Bars Wrigley View Rooftop From Selling Cubs Game Tickets in a Ruling That Protects Chicago Team Control Over the Decades-Old Rooftop Business Chicago Bears Host the New York Jets at Soldier Field With Week 4 Tickets Starting at $313 After Monday Night Football Win Over Philadelphia Illinois Lottery Online Player Lands $550,000 Lucky Day Lotto Jackpot After Matching All Five Evening Numbers in Saturday Drawing Chicago Speed Camera Tickets Surged in 2025 as 50 New Cameras Helped City Collect $64.2 Million and End Three Years of Decline Chicago Cubs Open Playoff Ticket Lottery Wednesday as Wrigley Field Hopefuls Line up for a Chance to Buy Seats If the Team Reaches October VIEW ALL FESTIVALS AND MUSIC EVENTS Totally Rad Vintage Fest Brings Vintage Vendors, Rare Style Finds and Fans From Far Away to Indiana State Fairgrounds Stop on Nationwide Tour University of Chicago’s South Side Science Festival Draws Thousands for 130 Hands-On Demos, Helping Kids and Adults Meet Researchers in White Coats Aftershock Festival Set to Return to Sacramento for Its 14th Year With Four Days of Rock, Metal and Punk at Discovery Park This Fall Chicago’s First Week of October Fills Theaters, Clubs and Museums With John Prine Tributes, Vampire Opera, Tap Premieres and Pumpkin Festivals Across the Region Chicago’s Destinos International Theater Festival Spotlights Latino Stories Across 11 Venues With 14 Productions During Hispanic Heritage Month VIEW ALL CELEBRITIES SPOTLIGHTS Barry Manilow Says Lung Cancer Surgery May Have Changed His Voice as He Prepares Farewell Tour, New Album and 83rd Birthday This Summer Donna Summer’s Casablanca Years Get a Fresh Spotlight in a New Box Set Tracing the Disco Icon’s Rise From Munich Demos to Global Stardom Mary Gauthier Opens up About Addiction, Sobriety and Hard-Earned Grace on Reckoning, the New Album She Says Traces Survival Across 30 Years of Recovery Berks County Singer-Songwriter Pat Garrett Dies at 84, Leaving Behind an Amphitheater, Sheepskin Shop and Decades of Country Connections Barry Manilow Reflects on Voice Concerns Before Farewell Tour After Lung Cancer Surgery and ICU Scare, as He Readies New Album and Stadium Dates VIEW ALL NEW RELEASES & ALBUM DROPS Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto VI the Album for November 19, a Companion Release Tying the Blockbuster Video Game Franchise to Music Fans and Collectors Erykah Badu and the Alchemist Release Before the World Blows After a Year of Singles, Bringing a Trippy, Star-Packed Comeback to Fans My Chemical Romance Teases First New Album in Over 15 Years During San Antonio Concert as Gerard Way Says Fans Deserve Another Record Alabama Shakes Return With First Album in 11 Years After a Druid City Brewing Reunion Sparked New Songs, a Tour, and the Band’s Renewed Creative Spark Arco E Tasto’s Once Heard, Long Forgotten Revives Emilie Mayer and Luise Adolpha Le Beau With a Navona Recording Shaped by Milwaukee Musicianship and Romantic Rediscovery VIEW ALL INDUSTRY NEWS & TRENDS Wale Vents About the Music Business in a Raw Twitter Journal Entry, Calling It a Hamster Wheel After Nearly 20 Years and Another Album Cycle Grouper’s Liz Harris Opens up on Helen’s Restorative New Album, Viral Streaming Scams and Why Her Rare Town Hall Shows Feel Like a Hard-Won Reset Kentucky Launches Governor’s Office of Music in Louisville to Connect Artists, Venues and Businesses as Officials Promote the State’s Growing Industry Parent’s Refusal to Fund a ‘music Industry’ Degree Sparks Debate on Reddit About College Costs, Career Security, and Whether Passion Majors Can Pay Off Kentucky Opens New Governor’s Office of Music at Bourbon & Beyond to Back Artists, Venues and Festivals, Making the State Only the Nation’s Second With a Music Office VIEW ALL FEATURED EVENTS FEATURED EVENTS Chicago Concertgoers Weigh in on Phone-Free Shows, From Jill Scott at the Chicago Theatre to Jack White’s Pouch-Only Entry at Salt Shed and Radius Posted onOctober 4, 2026October 4, 2026 0 Readers shared how locked pouches, no-photo policies and a few entry headaches changed the feel of live music nights across ...FEATURED EVENTS Louis Armstrong’s 1957 Highland Park Concert Finally Arrives on Record, With a 1,200 Person Fundraiser Set Preserved From a High School Auditorium Near Chicago Posted onOctober 3, 2026October 3, 2026 0 A stage manager’s taped recording of Armstrong’s March 19, 1957 performance has been restored and is now being released as ...FEATURED EVENTS Chicago Mother Nearly Loses Money After Freya Skye Concert Ticket Dispute Leads to X Impersonator Posing as Stubhub Support Posted onOctober 3, 2026October 3, 2026 0 A night of ticket trouble at Landmark Credit Union Live turned into a scam scare, prompting a warning from StubHub ...FEATURED EVENTS Audrey Niffenegger Revisits the Time Traveler’s Wife With Life Out of Order, a Chicago-Born Sequel About Alba, Climate Fears and a Wider Future Posted onOctober 1, 2026October 1, 2026 0 The novelist returns to her best-known world after 20 years, following a second generation of time travelers into a more ... 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