If your Monday evening stroll in downtown’s Millennium Park is interrupted by some raucous noise from the beautiful Jay Pritzker Pavilion, don’t be alarmed.

It’s only the new Downtown Sound: News Music Mondays series, which offers free Monday evening performances from up-and-coming national and local acts. Downtown Sound, a renamed and newly time-slotted version of last year’s Audible Architecture music series, joins Dusk Variations: A Chamber Series and Edible Audible picnic as one of three new music series at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion this summer. It’s the combination of local and national acts, low key Monday nights and early evening start time that makes Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays so appealing to many Chicago music fans.

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Tonight’s Downtown Sound at Millennium Park’s beautiful Jay Pritzker Pavilion brings legendary New Jersey rock/punk act The Feelies back to Chicago for the first time since 1991.

Formed in 1976, The Feelies became known for their powerful layered guitar sounds that became major influences for early underground and indie rock bands such as R.E.M. The band never reached great heights in terms of popularity and disbanded in 1992 after releasing four albums including the critcally acclaimed Crazy Rhythms. They reunited for a tour last summer and are slated to perform Crazy Rhythms in it’s entirety at this September’s All Tomorrow’s Parties in New York City.

Chicago’s experimental-dub out fit Icy Demons will open.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and runs until 9:30 p.m. tonight at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion.

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So if you missed St. Vincent’s amazing show at The Metro last night – full review coming soon – you’ve got another chance to catch her in the windy city and it’s FREE!

The Chicago Reader reports that the lovely Annie Clark AKA St. Vincent will play at Pritzker Pavillion in Millennium Park tonight beginning at 6:30 p.m. Local indie-pop-jam band Alla opens.

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