BY: CHARLIE FINGER What is it with Riot Fest booking all these bands at these specific times on this specific weekend?  It’s ridiculous.  Unrelated, but I FULLY blamed the guy …

Music Director Amany goes over the top 10 things that she experienced during days 2 & 3 of SXSW Music Festival.

Author: WSUM Staff   This weekend, Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 went down at Union Park in Chicago. A few of us from WSUM headed down there to check out one …

Authors: Jake Walczyk & David Heinrich What a year for Lollapalooza. 26 years in, this festival knows what it’s doing. For the most part, Lollapalooza has remained …

Authors: David Heinrich & Jake Walczyk This year marks the 26th Lollapalooza in Chicago. The fest has expanded to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Germany, and most recently France. …

Authors: Jake Walczyk & David Heinrich On its 50th anniversary, Summerfest made the world’s largest music festival into even more of a spectacle this year. Expectations were …

Author: Brittany Moreno & Maureen Duthie Excited “happy forest” proclamations dance in the air. A dangling fan-fare of umbrellas draw Electric Forest attendees into the welcoming arms …

Author: Izzy Fradin With Pitchfork just a few weeks away, WSUM is getting geared up for our long weekend in Chicago. This year is an especially exciting lineup featuring old …

Authors: Jake Walczyk & David Heinrich For 11 days during the transition starting June 28th, over 900,000 people will walk the grounds of Henry Maier Festival Park …

Author: Maureen Duthie Festivals stand alone from the daily on goings of life—a reprieve, a separate world—and Electric Forest stands as one of the most surreal. Eight …

Author: Jake Walczyk On June 7, 2017, I took a 9 hour car ride to another world. As I entered through the gates into this foreign land, a …

Author: Jake Walczyk Bonnaroo is creole for “best on the street”, and on Music Festival Avenue, it makes a strong argument for it. For four days in …