Music Mondays: The Weeknd @ Lincoln Hall
Nothing says Thursday night like some dark R&B jams at Lincoln Hall, as was the case last week when I saw 2011 Internet sensation/2012 bonafide R&B artist, The Weeknd, perform his first Chicago show. If you do not know who The Weeknd is, he took the nerdy music collective of the Internet world by storm in 2011 with three excellent, dark and edgy mixtapes that helped bring R&B back into the national music consciousness. Shortly thereafter he went from being completely anonymous, to rarely photographed, to playing Coachella in 2012. Being a full-on Weeknd fan boy since his first mix tape House of Balloons dropped in March of 2011, saying I was excited for this show would be an understatement. Continue reading…

























