EOYW is a day late this week, and your forgiveness is begged. Luckily, most of the shows below are not yet sold out, so our laziness will not be to your detriment. For whatever reason, some of the most talented musicians don’t become well-known until after they contract some life-threatening disease that warrants a tribute album. Alejandro Escovedo managed to recover from his bout with Hepatitis C to release The Boxing Mirror earlier this year.... more ›

Most of the time we still feel like we’re sixteen. We still have no answers, we’re just as awkward with the opposite sex, and we continue to wish someone would ask us to prom. more ›

We don't know how else to put this -- there's bad junk going around. Chicagoist hopes that you're not nodding off whilst checking the blogosphere, or getting into a comment war and then running off to cop, but if you are into heroin or were considering picking up the habit, you might want to think twice. Besides the regular old hazards from being riding the big H, (e.g. HIV or Hepatitis C from dirty needles,... more ›