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Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

A billion streams is a lot. That’s Kygo, who has mixed for everyone

December 13, 2018 at 8:52 a.m.

Two years ago, Norwegian superstar Kygo appeared on the cover of Billboard magazine. The headline: This DJ Reached 1 Billion Streams (Without You Knowing His Name). But two years in...

True-crime podcast ‘Small Town Murder’ is suddenly killing it

December 14, 2018 at 1:26 p.m.

Just last December, the true-crime comedy podcast "Small Town Murder," hosted by James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, sold out a live show at Lincoln Hall. Four months later, on Friday,...

‘Dancing With the Stars’ hoofers let their feet tell the stories

June 4, 2019 at 11:50 p.m.

The last time brothers Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy went on tour, in 2016, both men were unmarried. Their stage show was autobiographical, tracing their lives from their boyhoods in Ukraine...

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen: Nothing is off-limits for AC2 tour

December 14, 2018 at 10:45 a.m.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper almost went on a date in the '90s, before either of them was very famous. In their first phone conversation, Cohen made the historic mistake...

Judas Priest, has it been 50 years already?

December 14, 2018 at 10:07 a.m.

A few weeks ago, after almost 50 years in business, British heavy metal band Judas Priest lodged its highest chart debut ever when the group's 18th studio album, "Firepower," entered...

Winter Jam tests the rules of Christian music

December 14, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.

Of all the bands in the two-decades-plus history of Christian music package tour Winter Jam, it’s possible that nobody has ever been as crossover-beloved as Skillet. The Tennessee-based group, which...

Judah and the Lion divided old-school fans, but made the right call

December 14, 2018 at 4:59 p.m.

Judah and the Lion was a folk band that became a club-folk band, a genre that did not exist until the group invented it. 2017 was the year it finally...

Rogue Wave gathering to revisit the sonic scene of the tragedy

December 14, 2018 at 3:57 p.m.

In September 2007, Rogue Wave released “Asleep at Heaven’s Gate,” an album the Oakland, Calif.-based band hoped and expected would be regarded as their masterwork. It arrived in the middle...

G-Eazy is tired, grateful and grounded. He’s also huge

December 14, 2018 at 2:55 p.m.

G-Eazy is tired. Five years ago, when the Tribune first interviewed him, he was cheerful and talkative, an optimistic, up-and-coming rapper crafting a strange and alluring mix of sample-heavy ’50s...

Betty Who is back to the indie world she’s so familiar with

December 14, 2018 at 1:51 p.m.

At least initially, Australian export Betty Who might put you in mind of fellow artists Robyn and Pink. She’s Amazonian (6’2” in her bare feet), translucently blonde and generally imposing,...

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