Recent Posts Tagged With 'lincoln hall'

• Sloan at Lincoln Hall

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 17:10 in music, sloan, lincoln hall

  More Canadian rockers were in Chicago last night. This time, it was Sloan, the great and long-running power pop band from Nova Scotia. Sloan's been making bright, highly tuneful records since 1992, which is when they released their best-known song, "...

• Eccentric Soul Revue

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 16:07 in music, eccentric soul, numero group, lincoln hall

  I'm a firm believer in the idea that a lot of good music gets forgotten. For every classic-rock band you hear on the radio a zillion times, there are a zillion bands barely anyone's ever heard of... and at least a few of those zillions are worth hear...

• Vic Chesnutt at Lincoln Hall

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 10:05 in music, vic chesnutt, lincoln hall

  In the days before Vic Chesnutt played Thursday (Nov. 5) at Chicago's Lincoln Hall, it became clear that ticket sales must have been slow. The venue started offering a two-for-one ticket deal. And sure enough, when Chesnutt showed up on Thursday, att...

• Herman Dune, Julie Doiron and Wye Oak

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 12:11 in music, herman dune, julie doiron, wye oak, lincoln hall

  The new Lincoln Hall music venue has sold out some shows in its first couple of weeks, but on Thursday (Oct. 29) it was one of those rather chilled-out evenings with a small crowd of music fans standing around the main floor while three performers de...

• Lincoln Hall opens

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 18:14 in music, liam finn, schubas, lincoln hall

  Lincoln Hall opened Friday in the same space where the 3 Penny Cinema used to show movies, on Lincoln Avenue just north of Fullerton. This is the same neighborhood where the Lounge Ax used to be one of the Chicago rock scene's beacons. And with Wax T...