Make way for an honest alternative in Chicago’s Kweku Collins.
Grammy Nominations: Chicago Edition
This week, the 2017 Grammy Award nominations were announced.
1993 Throwback Mix: Happy Birthday SQN!
Happy Birthday, Sine Qua Non Salons! August 18th, 2016 marked the 23rd anniversary to the day of SQN‘s arrival on the Chicago hair scene, and we couldn’t be more delighted to celebrate.
Music We Love – Sunflower Bean
Sunflower Bean are the teenagers you aspired to be: aloof but down to Earth, cool but relatable with talent coming out of every pore.They embody all of the contradictions you spent your awkward teen years figuring out. Their attraction to doom metal and glam rock combined with their youthful energy create a unique sound, taking […]
Music We Love – David Bowie
Many words have been written about David Bowie this week and many more will be written in years to come.
Music We Loved – 2015
As the year winds down, we have time to reflect on all the musical trends that have come and gone this past year. We try to play a variety of music across our four locations, with 29 stylists there’s no shortage of taste. Here is the list of Music We Loved in 2015! Here’s a […]
Music We Love – Alex Winston
November holds a special place between the fall and winter seasons, a little gray in between month. This year Chicago has seen more warm and sunny November days than ever before. But it seems like the wind doesn’t want to let us forget that winter is indeed coming! The music we turn to in […]
MUSIC WE LOVE – THE WEEKND
The Sine Qua Non stylists can not get enough of the new album, Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd. Read more about the music we love!
STYLE ICON – SERGE GAINSBOURG
Serge Gainsbourg was a poet of the French new wave, an infamous scoundrel, a pop music pioneer, and one our style icons at Sine Qua Non. He was not conventionally attractive, but his disheveled hair and tired eyes made it seem like he had just gotten out of bed after being out all night– probably having […]
MUSIC WE LOVE – THEE OH SEES
We caught Thee Oh Sees last Wednesday at the Empty Bottle and our hearing just returned to normal.
MUSIC WE LOVE – GIRL GROUPS
From St. Vincent’s platinum cloud of curls to Karen O’s glossy bangs, women in indie rock are simultaneously creating hair trends and filling our playlists.
MUSIC WE LOVE – THE FIXX
The FIXX, one of the best bands still playing and writing from the 80’s, and I think, one of the most under appreciated.
