Author: Tom Joens

Patti Smith and Her Band gave one of the first performances of Riot Fest 2021

George Clinton and P-Funk, Liquid Soul, and Blue Wolf Experience live in Chicago!

Ben Harper’s music cannot really be compared to any other artist

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Gin Blossoms played the hits and the should-have-been hits to an enthusiastic crowd!

Cherie Currie and Brie Darling played a raucous rock and roll show at the City Winery in Chicago with the help of a four-man backup band. Currie, the one-time lead singer of the seminal female band the Runaways, and Darling the on-again, off-again drummer for the pioneering women group Fanny, sang most of the songs from their recent excellent collaboration album, The Motivator, including two of the three originals from that release. The two traded vocals for most of the night. Although Currie joked at one point that she was having a senior moment because she forgot the opening lines to one of the new songs, it is hard…

Opening for Cherie Currie and Brie Darling is Chicago’s own sister and brother act, White Mystery, featuring Miss Alex White and Francis Scott Key White.