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Aug 15 2016 Top 10 Artists to See at Riot Fest
Have you even looked at the line up for this year’s show? It’s an abyss. We know what you’re thinking. You’re saying outloud from the desk at your soul-crushing office job, “I’m flummoxed enough just trying to coordinate travel and lodging in Chicago. How am I suppose to navigate such a hodgepodge entanglement of entertainment?” Well … Continue reading
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Apr 23 2016 Top 10 List of 2016 Pitchfork Festival Performers
It’s that time of year. Pitchfork released this year’s festival line-up. Now it’s on us to sift through the galumphing manifest of performers and decide who we see live on stage and who we see on YouTube at home four weeks later.
10) Thundercat
We like all of Stepehen Bruner’s psychedelic, R&B, jazzy funk-punk, doom fusion records, … Continue reading -
Jan 27 2015 Top Ten Greatest Grateful Dead Songs
In honor of The Grateful Dead reuniting in our very own backyard for three back-to-back shows, we, at Holiday Jones, concluded a fitting tribute, and act of celebration, would be to narrow the Dead’s extensive and blistering catalogue down to ten single songs that resonate with us the most.
But before we get started on the … Continue reading
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Jan 07 2015 Tomorrow Never Knows 2015
Chicago is a city where music festivals run rampant. The tentpoles of our Summer run from Do Division to Third Rail to The Chicago Blues Festival to Spring Awakening to Riverwest to Pitchfork to Lollapalooza to North Coast to Riot Fest to the Hideout Block Party. But arguably the most compelling, and wistfully overlooked, is … Continue reading
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Aug 03 2014 Holiday Jones Ranks All of Alkaline Trio’s Albums
In honor of our hometown (particularly Wicker Park) heroes, Alkaline Trio, announcing that they will be playing every one of their albums, in-full, live at the Metro this October, we decided to dust off our old compact disc collection, listen to all eight records, then rank them from not-so-greatest to greatest.
8. Agony & Irony (2008) – Most … Continue reading
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Jun 05 2014 Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival
We’ve got a lot of thoughts about the people down the street at the Defibrillator Gallery. On one hand, we love them. They’re all super nice, super fun, super sexy, super jokey people. Their director staged all the photos you see on the Holiday Jones site. For a bunch of art school grads, they’re unexpectedly … Continue reading
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May 25 2014 Acts We’re Most Excited to See and Avoid at 2014 Chicago Riot Fest
Now that the 2014 Chicago Riot Fest line-up is out, it’s time to meticulously go through the list and declare outloud to no one in particular which bands we’re most excited about seeing (which all but cosmically guarantees that the about-to-be mentioned bands will be scheduled to play at the same time on different stages, … Continue reading
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May 03 2014 
HAIM @ The Riviera Theatre
At Holiday Jones, our frontdesk is basically a novelty DJ booth built out of speakers and therefore, must have music played out of it at all times. As a company, our tastes run the gamut: Robby likes R&B; Madeline likes indie rock that was popular 10-years ago; Nyle likes whoever’s playing Lollapalooza this year; J.J. likes … Continue reading
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Feb 20 2014 
Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago 2014 Line-up Announced
There’s something so surreal about the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago being announced right now. It’s hard to imagine on days like today, in weeks like this week, in months like this month, in Winters like this Winter, that there even is a Summer in Chicago. That expansive tracts of green grass can be cleared … Continue reading
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Jan 03 2014 
Art & Appetite @ Art Institute
We can’t have something new without getting rid of something old. So as we welcome the new year, we must say peace out to the wonderful Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine exhibit at the Art Institute.
Boy, did we have some good time there. We saw that Andy Warhol soup can, we saw … Continue reading
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