Spotlight Starlet: Nashville’s Mika Combs

In a city where everyone is trying to find their voice and stand out in a crowd, there’s one girl you can’t miss: Mika Combs; and although her baby blue eyes may be the first thing that catch your attention, they certainly won’t be the last.

With a voice that is as refreshing, light-toned and captivating as [...]

Nashville Music Garden’s Celebrity Auction in Full-Bloom

If you have a country music fanatic in your life, we may have just found the perfect one-of-a-kind holiday gift for them. Through the Nashville Music Garden’s” Country Music Blooms Online“ Auction, you can bid on items straight from Country music’s most respected legends and biggest superstars of today.
Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Keith [...]

Maria Taylor – Leaves Chicago Crying

In general, the tag “from the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack” doesn’t set my heart a twitter with excitement. As such, I wasn’t sure what to expect walking into see Maria Taylor, whose tune “Song Beneath the Song” graced the Grey’s album, last Friday at Chicago’s Subterranean. Far from the melodrama of the television show, Taylor put [...]

The Suicide Machines – Like They Never Stopped

After breaking up in 2006, The Suicide Machines have thrown increasingly regular reunion shows together over the last few years. Riot Fest was lucky enough to be one of those shows, as Suicide Machines took the stage on the third night of the Fest at Congress Theater to support the Descendants.
Suicide Machines put on an [...]

Social Distortion – Riot Fest Openers

The thing about a band with a history as long as Social Distortion is that audiences are basically guaranteed an entertaining show. The decades of experience are more than enough to qualify them to open Riot Fest, headlining the first show on Thursday at Chicago’s Congress Theater. If that weren’t enough, there are also the [...]

Planet Verge TV: Getting to Know Canaan Smith

What do music fans and reality show junkies agree on?  That Canaan Smith has that fire to be the next big thing! The Country singer and Amazing Race (season 15) contestant recently signed a contract with Mercury Records under Universal Music Group, and has been on a wild ride, showing no signs of slowing down, ever since.

Canaan has [...]

Love and Theft’s Single Switch is Getting Praise

Country duo Love and Theft have been spending the last few weeks on the road promoting their first single release in over a year and a half and their first jump back into country mainstream since member Brian Bandas’ departure at the beginning of this year.  After signing with RCA this past summer Eric Gunderson [...]

Raising a Toast to Butch Walker’s Drinking with Strangers (PLUS New Tour Photos!)

“They gave us keys to the kingdom back when record deals were exorbitant, and we looted it dry. In the end, the only things left emptier than our bank accounts were our souls, as we would find out soon enough.”

In his memoir, Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt, Butch [...]

Make History with Thirty Seconds to Mars in New York City

Thirty Seconds To Mars will celebrate their 300th and final show in support of their critically acclaimed third studio album This Is War with a special Tribus Centum Numerarae concert at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Dec. 7th, 2011. This show will set a new Guinness World Record for the most shows played during [...]

The Walkmen – A Softer, Gentler Indie Rock

The Chicago Theater in (shocking) Chicago is something of a landmark in our fair city. I say this only because it says “Chicago” in giant, flashy letters and the image shows up in a lot of Chicago-centric movies and shows. Maybe “iconic” is a better description. In any event, the theater is a unique venue [...]

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