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CBS News
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Pitchfork Music Festival co-founder launches new Chicago event Sound and Gravity
Many fans were heartbroken when they learned Pitchfork Music festival was leaving Chicago for good after 19 years. But now one of the festival's co-founders is working on a new event featuring a wide range of musical genres. Mike Reed organized Sound and Gravity to run from Sept. 10 through 14. Instead of being concentrated on several stages in a park, like the Pitchfork festival, was, the new festival will span multiple venues including Constellation, Hungry Brain, Judson & Moore, Beat Kitchen, Guild Row and Rockwell on the River. Sound and Gravity will feature 48 musical acts spanning a diverse range of genres including experimental, contemporary classical, jazz and indie. This is the first major event from Reed since Pitchfork Music Festival. You can find more information, a full lineup, and purchase tickets at
Time Out
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
A new multi-venue music festival is debuting in Chicago this September
Chicago's Bricktown and Avondale neighborhoods are about to get their own music microverse. Sound & Gravity, a new five-day music festival from Constellation Performing Arts and Pitchfork co-founder Mike Reed, is set to debut on September 10–14, 2025, and it's shaping up to be one of the most eclectic and community-rooted events in the city's fall calendar. Spanning six intimate venues—Constellation, Hungry Brain, Judson & Moore, Beat Kitchen, Guild Row and Rockwell on the River—the festival will mount 48 performances focusing on a wide range of genres, from contemporary classical and jazz to experimental, indie and electronic music. The lineup includes Bill Callahan, Mdou Moctar, Helado Negro, Mary Lattimore, Body/Head, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio, The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis,and surprise sets curated by Electrical Audio, the studio founded by the late Steve Albini. 'Sound & Gravity extends Constellation's mission, offering a concentrated dose of the venue's innovative spirit across multiple locations in one of the city's most creative neighborhoods,' said Reed in an official statement. Founded by Reed in 2013, Constellation has become a mainstay of —a haven for artists and audiences seeking performance experiences that defy genre and expectation. 'What we do here is all about wanting to present music in the way we want to present it,' Reed told the Chicago Sun-Times. All participating venues are within a five- to 15-minute walk from each other, so the fest is designed to feel more like a curated neighborhood crawl than a mega-event. 'It's creating this little [music experience] hub,' he added.
Chicago Tribune
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Constellation announces new Sound & Gravity festival of jazz and avant-garde
A first-time music festival by the owner of the music venue Constellation is coming to the Bricktown and Avondale neighborhoods this September. Sound & Gravity, created by Mike Reed, will be Sept. 10-14 at Constellation, Hungry Brain, Judson & Moore, Beat Kitchen, Guild Row and Rockwell on the River, with an avant-garde, experimental music and jazz-heavy lineup of some 48 acts in all over five days, including an opening night event. Headliners and boldface names include Bill Callahan, Mdou Moctar, Helado Negro, Mary Lattimore, Irreversible Entanglements, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio, ganavya, Tarbaby, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Julianna Barwick, Mary Halvorson, William Tyler, Elias Rønnenfelt, Third Coast Percussion and Glenn Kotche, as well as sets created by Electric Audio, the Chicago studio founded by the late Steve Albini. An announcement of the festival on Wednesday said it hoped to present 'a diverse range of musical genres which reflect the eclectic programming ethos of Constellation Performing Arts.' Reed is also known for co-founding the now-shuttered Pitchfork Music Festival, which ran more or less annually in Union Park from 2006 to 2024. The event will also serve as a fundraiser for Constellation Performing Arts.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Yahoo
Watch: 2 Colorado women saved after vehicle crashes, flips over into freezing water
CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Two women were rescued after their SUV careened off the road and crashed, upside down, into a creek in a Denver suburb. The accident occurred on Feb. 22 at 1 a.m. local time in the town of Centennial, where temperatures dropped down to 22 degrees, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office. Police were notified about the accident when a man called it in and then flagged down the officers once they arrived on the scene. He told them that he witnessed a black SUV speed past him and fly off the road and into a creek bed filled with snow, rocks and brush, the sheriff's office said. The deputies were then able to locate the vehicle and help pull one woman out. The second woman was only able to be removed by using the Jaws of Life on the SUV. Police noted that the man who witnessed the accident and flagged down the police is being hailed as a Good Samaritan, responsible for saving the lives of the two women. "That witness was in the right place at the right time. It was late at night, there was barely anyone on the road, and the chances of these two women surviving were slim, especially being upside down submerged in frigid waters with no way to escape," said Deputy Derek Helveston. How To Watch Fox Weather Patrol Lt. Mike Reed noted that, if it weren't for the witness, officers would not have been able to locate the vehicle amid the debris and darkness of night. He added that he did not believe anyone could have survived the crash, given the amount of damage to the vehicle and how it had landed upside down in the creek, putting the women in a precarious position. "The women were submerged in freezing water for 15 to 20 minutes with just inches of breathing room," Reed said. "Had we not found them at that moment, they would have succumbed to hypothermia within minutes, and this would have been a completely different outcome." Both women were transported to the hospital for treatment for minor injuries. The sheriff's office said the women, aged 22 and 24, were highly intoxicated, and the driver has been charged with driving under the article source: Watch: 2 Colorado women saved after vehicle crashes, flips over into freezing water
