Chicago Sound Check

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An in-depth look at the bands, the music and the events you need to know

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New Music

Premiere: Observing With Annie lifts the veil on broken relationships with uplifting ‘Silent Films’

By Brian Shamie 7 hours ago

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Find your way through Chicago’s major music fests

By Brian Shamie 2 days ago

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Where you can see Smashing Pumpkins, Ted Nugent and other bands with local ties this summer

By Lisa Friedman Miner 2 days ago

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Meet the Top 15 acts playing Sunday’s Suburban Chicago’s Got Talent show

By Scott C. Morgan 4 days ago

The Weekly Column

Sound Check in the Daily Herald

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Sound check: Sleep On It, Like Pacific make tour stop in Chicago

By Brian Shamie 5 hours ago

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5 events music lovers shouldn’t miss in the suburbs

By Brian Shamie 3 days ago

In pictures

Bands on stage

Galleries

Violet Crime, T.I.O.T.E, Bright Kid, The Darling Suns – Bottom Lounge 6/29/19

By Brian Shamie 2 weeks ago

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101-WKQX’s PIQNIQ – 6/15/19

By Sound Check 3 weeks ago

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Friday Pilots Club – PIQNIQ 6/15/19

By Sound Check 4 weeks ago

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Spring Awakening opening day – 6/7/19

By Sound Check 1 month ago

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Gazebo Effect – Do Division 6/2/19

By Denis Cheng 1 month ago

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Todd Kessler Presents: Songwriters in the Round with Pat McKillen, Michael Heidemann and Marshall Hjertstedt – Hey Nonny 5/14/19

By Neal Zeleznak 2 months ago

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The Weekend Run Club – Chop Shop 4/5/19

By Neal Zeleznak 3 months ago

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Splor – Tonic Room 1/5/19

By Denis Cheng 6 months ago

Artist profiles

Meet the musicians

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Phillip-Michael Scales

By Sound Check 2 months ago

Profiles

The Footlight District

By Sound Check 3 months ago

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jonfin

By Sound Check 3 months ago

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Rakido Guloy

By Sound Check 4 months ago

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Nehemiah Heckler

By Sound Check 4 months ago

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The Giving Moon

By Sound Check 4 months ago

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She Rides Tigers

By Sound Check 4 months ago

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Dead Freddie

By Sound Check 4 months ago

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