- Sleep
The 36th annual Chicago Jazz Festival kicks off at noon, which means you still have time to read our guide to the free four-day fest. If you’re looking to check out some other performances throughout the weekend, you’ve got plenty of options.
“In 1992 this San Jose band helped light a fire under the infant genre of stoner rock with their second LP, Sleep’s Holy Mountain, slowing their blues-based riffs to a muddy crawl and blasting them through a wall of planet-shaking amps—it sounds like Master of Reality creeping through a thick cloud of cannabis smoke,” writes Luca Cimarusti. “Sleep’s true monument, though, was to be their next album, the heady and hypnotic Dopesmoker, whose single hour-long track traded in the heavy-bottomed boogie of Holy Mountain for massive, meditative waves of sludge—in no time at all it was enshrined as the soundtrack to dorm-room bong sessions across the country. Work on Dopesmoker began in 1995, but record-label nonsense delayed its release until 2003—even a slightly abridged version called Jerusalem didn’t see the light of day until 1999.”
Sun 8/31: Dierks Bentley at Soldier Field
