Chicagoland Beatles Fans: Here’s your chance to see one of the band’s best live performances in its entirety on the big screen, with fully remastered sound.
The Beatles: The Lost Concert Limited Screening at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema
Afternoon Diversion: When the British Invasion Hit Chicago
This 1995 news clip talks about The Fab Four's concerts in Chicago between 1964 and 1966, at the height of Beatlemania.
Swede Home Chicago
Besides free booze at office parties, too much rich food, and the stress of gift buying, the holiday season also brings a couple of music-centric certainties: "Best Of" lists and benefit concerts. Keep an eye on Chicagoist for the former, and break out your taste for lutefisk tonight for the latter. Schubas will play host to a show benefiting the Swedish Covenant Hospital and featuring a lineup ripe with Chicagoist faves, playing both original music and covers of Swedish artists. The idea s to raise some dough for the Northwest Side hospital that is trying to advance a holistic approach to medicine in Chicago, and we kinda dig that, so check it out.
Leaders of the Brit Pack
Chicagoist is a big fan of channeling our inspirations into our creative output, so we’re naturally drawn to the British Invasion — worshipping Locksley. Named for Robin of Locksley from Robin Hood, one has to expect and accept a certain amount of best-intended robbery. Fortunately, this fab foursome from Madison (by way of Brooklyn) has the gumption and showmanship to pull off the rip off with more than a bit of style and an endearing dose of pluck. Whereas Chicago’s dour own Redwalls attempt a similar aesthetic, it’s Locksley that delivers because you can believe these guys truly love the music they emulate.

