Playlists

The Top 25 Dave Matthews Band Covers [Playlist]

Ready for tomorrow’s 4D XRT Show starring Dave Matthews Band tomorrow night at United Center? We sure are!

Bands can add variety to their live shows by playing covers of other songs in the same style, but DMB sometimes does it a little differently. They cover songs by Neil Young and Bob Dylan, sure, but would you expect them to cover Talking Heads, Bob Marley or Peter Gabriel? Probably not.

2012/12/04

Local Anesthetic’s Best Of 2010 [Download]

Anesthetic’s “Best of ’10″ including highlights from the past year’s artist interviews and the most memorable local releases. Listen to the full show & check out the playlist below. Local Anesthetic’s Best Of 2010 [DOWNLOAD] […]

2012/10/30

Breakfast With The Beatles: October 28, 2012 [Playlist]

All you need is love… and Chicago’s longest running and most popular Beatles show! Terri Hemmert, named “Chicago’s #1 Beatles Fan and foremost authority on the Fab Four. This Sunday’s playlist is posted below: BREAKFAST […]

2012/10/28

Thousands of participants perform Michael Jackson's "Thriller" zombie dance in Los Angeles. (AFP PHOTO/Robyn Beck/Getty)

10 Classic Songs For Halloween

We’ve come up with ten spooky-ish songs that are classic yet not total novelty tracks.

2012/10/24

Frank E. Lee’s XRT Halloween Playlist

Music like Bach organ fugues and folky numbers like “Long Black Veil” and “Tam Lin” provide good atmospheric spookiness, but if you crave visceral, “Saw” or “Hostel” type horror on your stereo, consider the following: […]

2012/10/10

18 Songs To Help You Recover From 18 Holes [Playlist]

The Ryder Cup. Where patriotism meets patrician sport. The U.S. versus Europe. This means that Northwestern University golf star Luke Donald does not play for us. He plays for them. This weekend The Ryder Cup […]

2012/09/26

The Morning Soundtrack [Lin's Bin]

Lin answers the question, “what is the soundtrack to the morning?” Should we ease in to the day slowly, or hit the ground running? Does the music we wake up to frame what the rest […]

2012/08/31

20 Blues Covers That Just Might Change Your Life

A friend of mine once observed, “You can’t forget the blues.” That is especially true in Chicago where this city offers the biggest free Blues Festival in the world. Since Chicago Blues were the source […]

2012/08/27

10 Songs for Independence Day

It’s the most American of holidays – Independence Day. Whether you’re loading up the car for a road trip, inviting the neighborhood for a barbecue, or begging the neighbors to stop shooting up the alley, […]

2012/07/03

Heat Tracks [Playlist]

With record-breaking high temperatures on the way and cold winters, too (why do we live here again?), let’s get ready to sweat (or glow) with some mercury busting bust-a-moves like these:

2012/06/27

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