It looks like Peter Frampton is going to keep on celebrating the 35th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive! until it's time to celebrate the 36th. more ›

Local soul showstoppers JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound will be releasing their second full-length album, Want More, Oct. 25 on Chicago label Bloodshot Records. more ›

With Wicker Park Fest last weekend and Lollapalooza next weekend, our social calendar has been exhausting. Our hopes for Wicker Park Fest were promptly dashed with the lack of interesting music, vendors and space to move around. But we're really looking forward to the festival sandwiched between Wicker Park Fest and Lolla, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, which spans Milwaukee Ave. between Kimball and California. more ›

Local soul revival superstars JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound have signed to local label Bloodshot Records, and will release their second full-length record through them this fall, according to a post on the label's blog. more ›

Having recently been tapped to pass strange for Bailiwick Chicago, presumably without the help of non-inflammatory medicine or a laxative, local soul stars JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound are plenty busy. Good thing they stopped in to Coach House Sounds for a quick little session back in March. Otherwise, we might not have gotten two new tracks from the band. more ›

While Carol Moseley Braun was busy calling other mayoral candidates crack addicts at Trinity United Church of Christ, Rahm Emanuel continued his slow and steady march towards trying to avoid an April runoff election by... having a fundraiser at the Park West. The fundraiser featured musical performances by local retro-soul masters JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, who gave Emanuel the shot in the arm he promised a couple of weeks back. more ›

Rahm Emanuel's list of big-whig backers, like R&B pop-star Jennifer Hudson, Bill Clinton and the president himself, Barack Obama, just got even longer today. The Huffington Post just announced that Wilco's main man, Chicago music-mainstay, Jeff Tweedy has joined the ranks to help get Emanuel raise funds for his mayoral campaign. Tweedy has often been known to support the political candidates and causes he believes in, having done concerts for Chicago Public Schools, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and of course, the big cheese, Barack Obama. more ›

We like to think of our fellow Chicagoans as big-hearted folks, and we fancy our comedians as some of the best in the business. For their 9th annual holiday benefit, "The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa," Second City is corralling big-hearted comedians and other performers for a full 24 hours of music, improv and some sweet looking raffle prizes. more ›

Local soul/funk rockers J.C. Brooks and The Uptown Sound have always been able to get us perked up and in a dancing mood. Which makes tonight's performance at the Empty Bottle a perfectly-timed event. With warmer weather (slowly) rolling in and another work week upon us, we're ready to relieve some stress and just have a good time. And it's impossible to have anything but a good time at a show from one of the city's most energetic, soulful bands. The group is currently promoting its fantastic new single "Get It Together" which comes backed with a funked-up cover of Wilco's "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart." The icing on the cake for tonight's show? It's free of charge. So get a running start to your week; you may wake up a bit tired tomorrow, but trust us, it'll all be worth it. more ›