Lollapalooza 2014 sold out in record time. Didja get your tickets?!  We have mixed feelings about this year's lineup. For the first ti...

Real punk for the punk kin... Hey punk rock moms and dads, ChiIL Mama's got the word there'll be a FREE KIDS SHOW with n...

Disclosure:  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Cottonelle, but all opinions and anecdotes are mine. I confess... I s...

Rise Against * Iggy & The Stooges The Offspring * Elvis Costello A Day To Remember * Coheed and Cambria Gogol Bordel...

Check out this week's contest over at I ♥ Faces, where the theme is hands.   This was a hard call, because we got so many great hand sh...

  This weekend at Riot Fest, someone pointed out that our metal and punk shows on  ChiIL Live Shows  are anything but chill.   Very true,...

It was a good run, but all good things must come to an end.     Riot Fest 2011 was 5 days of excellent music, late nights and sweet phot...

Suicide Machines killed it last night at a secret, late night, after show at the AAA Warehouse in Chicago.   It was great to hear lead si...

Despite some poor audio and lighting choices that made for a subpar show, Social Distortion got the crowd going.   We were hoping for som...

Our summer was bookended by rockin' sets by Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band.    We first shot them Memorial Day weekend when we did...

It was a rare pleasure to see X in a relatively small venue.    We've seen them at Double Door and Metro in recent years, and they alw...