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Whilst we have gone on and on about how much we enjoy The Changes, suffice it to say that their CD release show last Friday went swimmingly. We admit we could have done without the disco dancing encore of "Twilight," especially since it followed a hipstertastic cover of Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight," but one misstep could not ruin an otherwise joyous affair. And by joyous we mean the band was tight and beaming, and...

One of our guilty pleasures a year or two ago was the pop-rock combo, fronted by then-teenage singer Noelle, Damone. We knew that the songs were all written by guitarist Dave Pino, who seemed twice the age of the mouthpiece, but we didn’t care. Maybe if Weezer had put out a solid album in the last few years we wouldn’t have been so susceptible to Damone’s charms, but there we were, bopping along with their...

Almost every night of the week it's possible live out the rock-n-roll fantasy with Live Band Karaoke. Taking regular karaoke up a notch by allowing the singer to actually front the band of their choice. Given just the lyrics on a sheet, it can be a little more daunting than following the bouncing ball, but the adrenaline rush is definitely worth it. There are 3 bands in the Chicago area that play back up...

Since the release of Rush’s 1981 album Moving Pictures, the world of rock has seen a decline in the number of albums that could be filed under “Science Fiction Prog Rock Albums That Border On Pretension Without Quite Going Over.” One could argue that this is a good thing but in 2002 Coheed and Cambria offered a compelling counterargument. Their album The Second Stage Turbine Blade was the second of a four-part epic story of two characters named Coheed and Cambria and their children who are engaged in some sort of search for love and the ultimate fate of the universe. The story continued with 2003’s In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 as well as in a series of graphic novels that the band began selling on their website this summer.