Steven Yasell captured Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now performing Postcard during the hometown NYE extravaganza @ Chubby Bear. They will be back on the road in March.
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January 24, 2019
December 21, 2018
The Right Now: New Year's Eve in Chicago + Spring tour dates
photo: Whitney A. Pelfrey
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now are sharing the bill with JC Brooks Band and DJ Sloppy for a hometown NYE extravaganza @ Chubby Bear. Also: the first confirmed for their Spring tour are in.
July 29, 2018
The Right Now: For What It's Worth
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now have turned the Buffalo Springfield classic For What It's Worth into an upbeat defiant dance tune, tailor made for PA systems at anti-45 gatherings. Bold brass, crunchy organ, and lead singer Stefanie Berecz as the centerpoint of the action.
For What It's Worth is a self-released single. Buy it from the usual digital outlets.
May 09, 2018
The Right Now: Summer Tour dates
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now hit the road again this Summer. Expect a night of brass-filled, serious good time music.
April 07, 2018
The Right Now: JBTV videos
February 11, 2018
The Right Now: 10th Anniversary @ Martyrs in Chicago
photo: Heath Sharp at JBTV
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now will celebrate their 10th Anniversary with a special hometown show @ Martyrs on April 27. The first batch of Spring tour dates is now up, with many more to be announced shortly.
December 29, 2017
HCTF's best of 2017 (15-11)
HCTF's annual list of the 20 albums that will be in regular rotation for many years to come. The long list of memorable releases boasted about 50 albums. Tough decisions were made narrowing it down. As per usual it's a mixed bag of genres: rock in its various incarnations (garage, hard, post, prog), avant-garde, jazz, pop, folk, funk. Also of note: four live albums made the cut.
Today: countdown from number 15 to 11.
Please keep in mind to shop at your local record store, buy directly from the artist, attend live shows. And shut the fuck up while the band is playing.
November 25, 2017
The Right Now: "Up All Night" NYE at The Hideout in Chicago
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now will ring out 2017 with a hometown show at The Hideout on New Year's Eve. Special guests will help them out.
October 09, 2017
The Right Now: Daytrotter session @ Horseshack Studio
Watch Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now playing up a storm for their Daytrotter session. Filmed @ The Horseshack in Rock Island, IL - 2017/09/27.
September 08, 2017
The Right Now: tour dates
photo: Whitney A. Pelfrey
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now hit the road again to promote their new Starlight album. They kick with two shows (in St Louis and Berwyn) as the support act for Monophonics.
June 20, 2017
The Right Now: Summer tour dates
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now hit the road this Summer to promote their new Starlight album.
May 06, 2017
The Right Now: "Too Late" video
Watch the new The Right Now video for Too Late, a track from their latest album Starlight. The clip was filmed @ Green Frog Studios in Grand Rapids, MI. Director Seth Thompson kept it simple, with a pseudo live set-up and a wind machine.
The Chicago based funky soul band will be back on the road in June and July to promote the album.
February 27, 2017
The Right Now: Everything Is Broken
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now have released Everything Is Broken, another single from their new album Starlight. They are not afraid to go political with this one, pointing fingers at rampant consumerism and cheap labour.
Starlight is a self-released album. Buy ir (vinyl, CD, digital) from their website. The translucent blue 150g vinyl LP has 8 tracks (That's Enough and Everything Is Broken are not included) and comes a download card for all 10.
February 16, 2017
The Right Now: Postcard
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now have released Postcard, another single from their forthcoming album Starlight. They come close to modern day R&B with this one, but the track has a nifty brass arrangement and gradually builds up to a show of vocal pyrotechnics.
Starlight is a self-released album. Preorder (vinyl, CD, digital) from their website. The translucent blue 150g vinyl LP has 8 tracks (That's Enough and Everything Is Broken are not included) and comes a download card for all 10. Release date: February 24.
February 13, 2017
The Right Now: Starlight
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Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now are back with a brand new record. Starlight is the long-awaited follow-up for their Gets Over You album that came out in 2012. They have retained their old school sound, a blend of Philly soul, lazy pop and tasteful funk tunes. It's smooth and blatantly sexy sometimes. Singer Stefanie Berecz urges her partner to "take me where I wanna be" in Up All Night. The late night ballad Love (Lets Me Know) carefully sidesteps all the pitfalls and clichés, by inserting carefully placed brass, guitar licks and vocal ad libs. Brendan O’Connell, the band's resident composer, is the opposite of a one-trick pony, writing songs that require several tags to describe their genre, but always with a back beat that people can dance to.
The Right Now have always respected their musical predecessors. The bass line that Greg Nergaard came up with for If It Was You takes the listener straight back to the Seventies, when funk and soul had a baby and named it disco. The influence of Bettye Lavette comes to fore in the putdown song Too Late, in which a guy is derided for missing his change to make a move.
January 05, 2017
The Right Now: new album "Starlight" 02/24
It's been five years since Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now released their Gets Over You album. The long wait is nearly over. On February 24 they will release Starlight, ten brand new tracks on CD. The coloured 150g vinyl version has 8 tracks, with a download card for all 10.
Preorder Starlight from their website.
HCTF review of Gets Over You.
April 01, 2015
The Right Now: playing @ the Double Door in Chicago
October 18, 2014
The Right Now feat. Kallie Palm: two shows in Chicago
Soulful rockers The Right Now have invited Kallie Palm to sing with them at two hometown shows, while Stefanie Bereczis is on maternity leave.
Live dates:- 10/23 House of Blues, Chicago, IL
- 10/24 The Hideout (CHIRP Radio Benefit), Chicago, IL
HCTF review of Gets Over You.
February 04, 2013
The Right Now: residency @ The Backroom, Chicago
Chicago based funky soul band The Right Now have secured a Wednesday night residency @ The Backroom, performing two sets each night. More confirmed shows in Saint Louis, Milwaukee, Tiffin and Cincinnati.
Live dates:- 02/06 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom
- 02/08 Saint Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
- 02/13 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
- 02/13 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom
- 02/20 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom
- 02/27 Chicago, IL @ The Backroom
- 04/11 Tiffin, OH @ The Ritz Theatre
- 04/12 Cincinnati, OH @ MOTR Pub
HCTF review of Gets Over You.
June 06, 2012
The Right Now: "He Used To Be" video, tour dates
Watch the video for He Used To Be by The Right Now. Directed by Cameron Yergler, live footage courtesy of Seth Thompson It was the B-side of their Record Store Day 7". The Chicago soul band is on tour throughout the Summer.
Live dates:- 06/08 Navy Pier - Chicago, IL
- 06/09 Pickle Palooza - Woodstock, IL
- 06/10 Andersonville Midsommarfest - Chicago, IL
- 06/16 Taste of Randolph St - Chicago, IL
- 06/23 High Watt - Nashville, TN
- 07/13 Windy City Ribfest - Chicago, IL
- 07/19 Downtown Live! - Columbus, OH
- 07/20 Columbus Jazz & Rib Fest - Columbus, OH
- 07/21 Painesville Party in the Park - Painesville, OH
- 07/28 Why Not Wausau - Wausau, WI
- 08/18 Der Rathskellar - Madison, WI
- 08/23 Jazz in the Park - Milwaukee, WI
- 08/25 St Helen's Carnival - Chicago, IL
- 09/09 Downtown Dayton Revival - Dayton, OH (w/ John Legend)
HCTF review of Gets Over You.
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