R.E.M.

By Lizz Kannenberg This past Sunday marked the 25th birthday of Chicago’s most beloved (and sometimes bemoaned) rock club, the Cabaret Metro. Known to most simply as “The Metro,” the joint kicked off its venerable life with a performance by a then-little-known rock combo from Athens, GA called R.E.M.

By Tankboy And then came Sonic Youth. BEST LINE OF THE DAY: As Time Tuten tried to introduce Sonic Youth to a hostile crowd he said, "What are you going to do? Start a 'Middle-aged Riot?'" Sadly we think the joke was lost on most of the audience, but we thought it was pretty darn funny.

By Tankboy Has America caught on? Sort of. The band played four noteworthy, dizzying sonic flybys at the recent SXSW debacle in Austin, yet they’ll touch down here tomorrow night at the Double Door – a modest step back from the group’s sell out of Metro last October. The snob in Chicagoist says “all the b...