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Attending

Concerts are the best way to listen to music. You should go to them and support the artists you like.

These are concerts I’ve been attending.

2024 April

Jeff Rosenstock at The Salt Shed

Sidney Gish opened for the show and said, “let’s go guys” before st...

2024 March

Colin Stetson at Bohemian National Cemetery

This has to be one of the top five shows in my life. The man was l...

Bombay Bicycle Club and Mustard Service at Metro

I implored people to get tickets to their show when it was announce...

2024 February

Shea Couleé's Love Ball

We sat too far back at Concord for my liking, but we still had a gr...

Amtrac & Tourist at Concord

We were supposed to have our nieces staying with us all weekend but...

2024 January

Rossy at Chop Shop

We went to go see Rossy at Chop Shop and she was great as always. I...

2023 December

Zeds Dead at Salt Shed

With Emily and Bill and Kylie and Shannon and Brian and his new gir...

Confidence Man at Lincoln Hall

Confident eye contact

2023 October

Jessy Lanza & Golden Donna at Sleeping Village

I always love going to Sleeping Village and so when I saw Jessy Lan...

2023 July

Beyoncé at Soldier Field

You’re pretty sure it’s going to be a fun night when, as you walk u...

First Aid Kit at The Salt Shed

The Swedish duo’s ethereal and intertwined voices harmonizing and m...

Kandy Muse and Jimbo at Roscoe's

We braved the storms last night to watch Kandy Muse and Jimbo perfo...

Japanese Breakfast at The Salt Shed

A great evening seeing Japanese Breakfast perform a second time

Grapetooth at West Fest

Grapetooth was a fun, tongue in cheek show on a perfect sticky summer night

2023 June

Final Day of Re:SET Chicago

LCD Soundsystem, Jaime XX, and Idles at the last day of the first year of this festival

2023 March

STS9 at The Riviera

With Dan, Paul, and Walters. The concert went sooo long, and had s...

2023 February

Tourist at Chop Shop

With Marybeth and Ned, and it was pretty good. We waited forever to...

2022 March

Donny Benét at Lincoln Hall

Ned had an extra ticket so I went with him and it was a lovely show...

2022 February

Memba at Chop Shop

Marybeth and I went with Bill, Emily, Kate, Shannon, Kylie, Grant, ...

2021 November

Caribou and Jessy Lanza at Riviera

One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. Jessy Lanza was a fanta...

2019 February

Tourist & Gilligan Moss at Sleeping Village

I knew both of these performers before going to the show, but damn ...

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