Requiem For Requiem for: Pitchfork Music Festival (in) Chicago Pitchfork Festival leaves Chicago (for good?), but could something beautiful and new spring up in its wake?
Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice: Clearly communicate your show times Venues and concert promoters should provide clearly available intel for those who disregard the above and just want to see the headlining band. It's not a lot of work! There's only two steps.
Backyard Coachella Featured My Backyard Coachella: Keith O'Brien If you had the power to throw a backyard Coachella with six bands, who would you pick?
Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice: Water should be free Water for free for everyone at a concert should be nonnegotiable. Feel free to offer expensive bottled options, but there should be plenty of water fountain/stations for everyone else.
News A tale of two spectacles Banking so much of your cache on reforming defunct acts inevitably leads you here. You eventually run out of the willing and able acts, then transition to the ones accepting the pay days and the ones that, in all honestly, should not be headliners.
Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice: See a band you don't know Make a habit of seeing a local show of a band you've never heard of. You are directly supporting live music, and are able to enjoy the experience with zero expectations.
