[RH Photos] Melt-Banana Returns to Chicago

Photos by Geoff Henao On Tuesday, July 14th, Japanese noise-core band Melt-Banana returned to Chicago’s Empty Bottle for the first time in 15 years. Touring across the country with them is stoner metal band, and genre-defying Hot Nerds opened the show. For months since the show was announced, my expectations were extremely high. 2015 marks […]

[RH Interview] Islands

Islands is the brainchild of Canadian-born lead singer/songwriter Nick Thorburn. The occasionally acoustic-inclined Thorburn, along with Evan Gordon, Geordie Gordon and Luc Laurent make up the squad that today is Islands. Started in 2004 in Montreal, the art-rock ensemble has had a sort of revolving door since founding member Jamie Thompson left in 2006, finding […]