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Live Picks: 6/21

Greys

BY JORDAN MAINZER

If you don’t want to take out a small loan, head to Sleeping Village.

The Rolling Stones, Soldier Field

You’ve probably heard it: The Rolling Stones have been on their No Filter tour since 2017, but not to the U.S. It was supposed to come to the U.S. a couple months back, but Mick Jagger had to get heart surgery (while Keith Richards somehow remains alive), and so the shows had to be postponed--for only two months? Isn’t that how long an NFL player is out with turf toe? In any case, now, the American leg of the tour starts tonight, here in Chicago, where the turf toed play, at Soldier Field. The Stones come back to Soldier Field on Tuesday, and the ticket prices are through the roof, so you’ll have a better chance of catching the band around town than seeing them in concert. But I had to include them here--they’re the Rolling Stones!

Alabama eight-piece soul band St. Paul & The Broken Bones open.

Miranda Lambert ft. Pistol Annies, Huntington Bank Pavilion

I’d normally stay away from the usually bro-infested Country LakeShake Music Festival at Huntington Bank Pavilion, but this year, the ladies are running the show--and righteously so. I’ve said for years that Miranda Lambert is one of the best songwriters of the decade, let alone country songwriters, and seeing her headline a festival is a treat unto its own. But to see her alongside the songwriting and singing prowess of Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley is another thing entirely. The country supergroup has released three albums this decade, most recently Interstate Gospel late last year, matching the feminist weed-whiskey-and-guns fire of Lambert’s output. Hearing those songs intermingled with Lambert’s will only further canonize her within contemporary country. 

Greys, Sleeping Village

I was a big fan of Outer Heaven, the 2016 second full-length release from Canadian post-punk band Greys. Last month, they followed it up with Age Hasn’t Spoiled You, and while it’s not the ear-catching, pummeling political force that Heaven was, it’s certainly the band’s most instrumentally varied album. It should make for a fascinating and blistering live show.

The Gotobeds headline. Rock band Ethers also open. DJ Doug Mosurock (Heathen Disco/​CHIRP Radio) spins before, between, and after sets.

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