Chelsea Handler now meditates, thanks to President Trump
In her new memoir, "Life Will Be the Death of Me," comedian, author, and talk show host Chelsea Handler writes about how the election of President Donald J. Trump drove...
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At the end of a hard road, Priests kinda have it figured out
When the D.C.-based quartet Priests released its first full-length album, "Nothing Feels Natural," in 2017, they were going through a rough time. They were struggling to figure out who they...
Hard rock supergroup Captain Beyond shoulda been somebody
Space rock supergroup Captain Beyond never became the stars it might have been, and Bobby Caldwell, the group's founding drummer, one of its chief songwriters and the only one left...
Spiritualized is back after six years, with a new album they’re not so sure about
Spiritualized records tend to be big. The British group’s 1997 release, “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space,” was a space-rock-psychedelic-gospel landmark renowned for its spaciousness. There were horns...
T-Pain, the Masked Singer, and AutoTune — what a wild ride
And so it turns out that T-Pain, the multi-platinum rapper, pioneer of Auto-Tune, and pride of Tallahassee, Florida, was the Masked Singer all along. The basic premise of the show...
The cheesy, flawless, irresistible musical charms of Il Divo hit Rosemont Theatre
More than fifteen years and forty million albums after they were first assembled by Simon Cowell as a four-piece alternative to the Three Tenors, classic crossover group Il Divo is...
What’s in a name? For Chicago band Oozing Wound and its view of the world, quite a lot
Chicago thrash trio Oozing Wound specializes in darkly funny, complex, misanthropic songs about mostly awful people. On the group’s new album, “High Anxiety,” their targets include posturing male musicians (the...
Finally, finally Chicago’s Disturbed finds its way to mainstream success via … Simon & Garfunkel?
Chicago-born hard rock band Disturbed has had five No. 1 albums so far, and sold millions of records, but until recently, genre-busting mainstream success had eluded them. In 2015, fresh...
Fire, makeup, absurd tongues — it’s KISS time, for the last time
It’s a fact of modern rock ’n’ roll life that almost no one truly goes away forever. Long-feuding bands reunite for seven-figure Coachella deals; rappers return from the dead as...
Kelly Clarkson is back with a career-reviving new album and plenty of attitude
When Kelly Clarkson released “Meaning of Life,” the nostalgic pop-soul record that reinvigorated her career, she had a good feeling about it. “I felt it was going to be a...