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Tickets go on sale this Friday for the Sons Of The Silent Age - The Cracked Actor Cabaret at City Winery Chicago on July 29. The performance is billed as “the music of David Bowie stripped down and intimate.” Sons Of The Silent Age is led by Chris Connelly from The Revolting Cocks and Ministry and Matt Walker, whose resume includes Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. The other band members all have extensive experience on the Chicago music scene.

Sons Of The Silent Age also have a June 22 concert coming up at SummerFest in Milwaukee, WI.

Graham Nash has announced the schedule for a massive North American Fall Tour that includes stops in Denver, Omaha, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Boston, Quebec City, and Ottawa. No Chicago dates, but Nash has concerts scheduled for October 15 and 16 at the Cahn Auditorium in Evanston, IL. Tickets go on sale this Friday. The last time I saw Nash perform was in Evanston, at the SPACE venue.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse will perform at the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago on May 23. Other stops on the tour include San Diego, Phoenix, Atlanta, Austin, Toronto, and Queens, NY.

Chicago: Home Of House, an exhibit honoring the city’s pivotal role in widespread success of house music, opened last week on Navy Pier, and will run through the end of October. As noted by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Erica Thompson, this year brings the 40th anniversary of the genre.

Warning all folk singers. Cracker, with founding members Johnny Hickmans and David Lowery, will perform at SPACE in Evanston on July 5 and 7. The band is known for FM radio staples such as “Low” and “Get Off This,” as well as “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now),” which proclaimed, “‘Cause what the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head.”

Purple Reign - A Weekend Celebration For His Royal Badness will feature A Birthday Celebration on June 7 at Joe’s Bar, and A Love Bizarre on June 8 at Logan Square Auditorium. Both locations are in Chicago, and each will feature a different lineup of DJs spinning Prince music. Admission is free with an HIV test in advance or on the night of the show. See the Eventbrite listing for full information.

 

Buffalo Creek Brewing in Long Grove will celebrate the arrival of spring with the Germany-inspired MaiFest this Friday and Saturday, May 10 and 11. There will be live music, German games, new beer releases, and food trucks. Special beers for sale will include Old Copper and Mutterscholtz, as well as The 13th Poet, which is described as, “our lavender blonde ale inspired by Taylor Swift’s musical genius.” This will be the second batch of The 13th Poet; the first batch quickly sold out weeks ago.