Alison Bonaguro

It's kind of like a rock concert. Sort of like theater. But with honest-to-goodness cowboys and rough-and-ready 2,000-pound bulls. And it ends within eight seconds. This weekend you can see...

Chicago country fans don't know Ashton Shepherd. Yet. Her debut album, "Sounds So Good," hits stores March 4. And that will be the day her world turns upside down. Right...

Maybe it is our Midwestern mind-set that creates such a solid foundation for live country music. Or maybe, it's something less tangible. "Chicago just has a kind of vibe; it's...

When a country star falls backward onto the waiting hands of a sea of fans, you know you're not at the Opry anymore. You're in Chicago, where the endless supply...

Chicago country fans don't know Ashton Shepherd. Yet. Her debut album, "Sounds So Good," hits stores March 4. And that will be the day her world turns upside down. Right...

You expect glitter. You expect anthems. You expect grand pianos. But you don't expect Barry Manilow to put on a Nehru jacket and smoke a joint. Yet he did. Halfway...

This year we asked our contributing music writers to name their five favorite albums of the year, and we encouraged them to look to multiple genres. A star denotes a...

An hour and a half is a lot of Miley Cyrus. Even for Miley Cyrus. By the end of her very, very sold-out Allstate Arena show Saturday evening, the teen...

Keith Anderson knows how to write a hit song. And he's a country singer with a growing fan base and plenty of sold-out tour dates. So why did he let...