Refined over decades, Meshuggah’s slate-gray alien locomotion and High on Fire’s grandiose barbarian thunder are two of the most distinctive sounds in metal-often imitated, never equaled. (Full disclosure: I served as a volunteer on the festival’s curatorial board.) -Peter Margasak a Various times, venues, and prices. It features the work of 88 composers that live or have lived here, including 54 world premieres that will be performed by 25 ensembles at the Harris Theater, the Chicago Cultural Center, the University of Chicago, PianoForte, Curtiss Hall, and Constellation. The six-day fest presents the most comprehensive portrait of Chicago’s deep contemporary classical music community. It will be followed over the next three seasons by new productions of each of the others, culminating, in the spring of 2020, in an orgiastic undertaking: the presentation of the full cycle three times in three weeks. Lyric Opera opens its season with a new production of Das Rheingold, the first work in Richard Wagner’s mighty four-opera Ring cycle. ![]() Suggested donation $5 festival pass $125. Peter Margasak a Various times and venues. This year’s installment is the best yet, with a world-premiere collaboration between Puerto Rican reedist Miguel Zenon and Spektral Quartet and performances from Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers Ensemble, Matana Roberts, Randy Weston, and Trip with Tom Harrell and Mark Turner, along with the usual bounty of the city’s best working outfits as well as some new projects, including a tantalizing quartet with Joshua Abrams, Ari Brown, Jeff Parker, and Gerald Cleaver. But in recent years, under the direction of Kate Dumbleton, the weekend affair has become a magnet for global talent. A moment from the 2015 Hyde Park Jazz Festival Credit: Marc Monaghan 4įrom its start a decade ago, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival has offered a superb portrait of the Chicago jazz scene. Alicia Keys, John Legend, Lil Wayne, Skrillex, and Young Thug are some of the stars on the bill, which puts many of the fests clogging this past summer’s concert calendar to shame. Magnificent Coloring Day is the latest manifestation of Chance’s affection for his hometown, a one-day festival at the home of his beloved White Sox, the soon-to-be Guaranteed Rate Field. 18+Ĭhance the Rapper Credit: BOBBY TALAMINE 3Ĭhance the Rapper’s Magnificent Coloring DayĬhicago is all over Chance the Rapper’s third mixtape, May’s gospel-inflected Coloring Book. Big names include Meat Beat Manifesto, Clock DVA, and the Cocks, a reunion of ex-members of the Revolting Cocks. This year the fest takes over the entire Metro compound, spilling over into Smart Bar for afterparties. Performers have included Front 242, Fear Factory, Youth Code, Godflesh, and Front Line Assembly. The Cold Waves festival began in July 2012 in memoriam of Acumen Nation guitarist Jamie Duffy, who was also a beloved stage manager and sound engineer. When Wax Trax! ruled in the 80s, Chicago cultivated a special bond with industrial music, one strong enough to have since provided plenty of reason to occasionally get some of the gang back together. ![]() Meat Beat Manifesto Credit: John Corrigan 2 Peter Margasak a 7 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. ![]() In addition to the two concerts, the Aron Packer Gallery will present a one-night exhibition of Rennie’s paintings called “Underwater Vines” on September 20. ![]() in 2014, and since the hit HBO show True Detective used their stunning 2003 tune “Far From Any Road” as a theme song. It’s also the first time they’ve been back since Andrew Bird made an entire album of their songs called Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of. NEWS & INVESTIGATIONS Open dropdown menuīrett and Rennie Sparks, the dynamic couple known as the Handsome Family, return to Chicago for the first time in four years to support of another dazzling new album, Unseen, the first released on their own Virtual Label imprint.
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