Newcity Music

Laufey, (pronounced LaweeVay) has taken the “jazz” world by storm. Whether it is London, Berlin, Sidney or Chicago, her concerts sell out within hours. Laufey defies all stereotypes.

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/25/cool-jazz-the-laufey-phenomenon/

Suzanne Vega, an excellent singer-songwriter before the term was coined, has come to represent New York and should be regarded as a national treasure for her talents, rather than just “the lad...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/23/yes-i-think-youve-seen-me-before-a-preview-of-suzanne-vega-at-evanston-space/

It’s nowhere near as original as the songs on “69 Love Songs,” but this really is a heart-breaking work of staggering genius—or a staggering work of heart-breaking genius, and some of it...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/18/when-you-havent-had-enough-of-silly-love-songs-a-preview-of-the-magnetic-fields-at-thalia-hall/

A favorite of TikTok during the early days of the COVID pandemic, U.K. singer/songwriter/producer PinkPantheress makes ostensibly cute music: her breathy vocals drift over lo-fi breakbeats, and ...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/16/the-intimacy-of-viral-bedroom-pop-a-preview-of-pinkpantheress-at-metro/

Over the last twenty years, the business of promoting live music in the United States has consolidated in the hands of two multibillion-dollar behemoths, Live Nation and AEG Live. So when eight ...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/11/for-the-culture-by-the-culture-with-the-culture-how-the-black-promoters-collective-is-changing-the-concert-game/

While the title might sound like a promissory note for a cacophony of wild animals, the organizational intent of the composers will reveal something more deliberate afoot. While you might not he...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/09/pet-sounds-this-isnt-a-preview-of-music-of-the-baroques-birds-frogs-crickets-and-dogs/

It’s not apropos for music writers to compare musicians, but this case feels like an exception and we don’t think Aaron will mind. If you put gravel, smoke and Frank Zappa into a blender, so...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/04/genre-blender-a-preview-of-aaron-lee-tasjan-at-evanston-space/

A year after his visit in 2023 when he remarkably traversed the Mahler Fifth, wunderkind Finnish Maestro Klaus Mäkelä's fourth CSO visit this week is one of the most anticipated CSO concerts o...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/04/02/our-future-maestro-klaus-makela-returns-to-cso-as-popular-heir-apparent/

Rarely heard and especially creative sounds flow from Chicago stages in April.

https://music.newcity.com/2024/03/28/music-top-5-april-2024/

Once a month they are young again, these accomplished supper club musicians, raconteurs and playful misfits. They call themselves ROMEO, not to be confused with the Shakespearian tragedy of love...

https://music.newcity.com/2024/03/26/corny-jokes-clothes-from-another-planet-and-crimes-of-passion-when-the-supper-club-was-king/