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Festival Preview: Chicago’s New Year Transitions, Dec. 26–Jan. 1st

Spanning 7 venues across 7 days, Transitions, the New Years Eve celebration by AURIS PRESENTS, in downtown Chicago has cultivated a lineup of the biggest names spinning records and electronica today. From December 26 – January 1st, Chicagoland will be ablaze as it welcomes the likes of 70 artists and a 21-hour marathon to ring in the new year at Outset. Here are the highlights coming this week to Chicago. 

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Interview: KRUI With The Plain White T’s

At When We Were Young 2025, fellow Chicago area natives Plain White T’s sat down with me as we discussed how the local scene has changed, their tour with We The Kings, and how Las Vegas scares us all the slightest bit. We started the conversation out by sharing a mutual love of Death Cab for Cutie:

Haley Bonar’s cool breathy folk is bringing its chill from Saint Paul, Minnesota down to Iowa City on Thursday, November 8th, hot on the heels of her released EP “Bad Reputation” which is out today on her own site at haleybonar.com where she also has 500 limited edition 7″s for sale. Concert begins at 9 PM at The Mill and tickets are $12. The show is 19+ after 10 PM.      

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