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The grand staircase at the Art Institute of Chicago will become the epicenter for a winter music fest for Pitchfork's Midwinter fest.

From Pitchfork: A Midwinter night’s dream at the Art Institute, and an expensive one

February 14, 2019 at 11:04 a.m.

More than 18 months ago, beloved Chicago institutions Pitchfork and the Art Institute decided to join forces. Pitchfork wanted to extend its summertime music festival dominance into the winter months;...

Chic mainstay Nile Rodgers has a knack for the glorious art of perfect musical timing

February 5, 2019 at 8:10 a.m.

It isn’t just his discography, which is stupendous. Nile Rodgers, artist, producer, guitarist, mainstay of legendary outfit Chic, has a Zelig-like ability to show up in just the right place...

Bring Me the Horizon is betting the farm on a new sound

January 31, 2019 at 8:55 a.m.

During its 15 years on earth, English hard rock band Bring Me the Horizon has consistently made adventurous albums, boundary-pushing works that have incorporated everything from metalcore to EDM. But...

Dawes was knocking about in a nice, calm way, and then that Mandy Moore thing hit. Hard.

January 24, 2019 at 8:40 a.m.

“Some people want to make ‘Transformers 3,’ and there’s no shame in that,” says Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith. “Dawes is making Noah Baumbach movies. The budgets are smaller, the audiences...

Turnpike Troubadours are giving that road thing a go again

January 17, 2019 at 8:27 a.m.

2018 started off promisingly for Oklahoma-based country rock band Turnpike Troubadours. They had released their fourth and possibly most beloved album, “A Long Way From Your Heart,” in October of...

Jen Kirkman is famous, but not THAT famous — just well-known enough to drive you crazy

January 10, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

In Jen Kirkman’s own estimation, she’s the stand-up comic version of middle class. She’s well-known but not so famous that it’s burdensome, well-off but not rich. You know her from...

Chicago’s Beach Bunny is about to face being grown up and becoming the next big thing at the same time

January 3, 2019 at 9:12 a.m.

Lili Trifilio, the primary singer and songwriter for the surf pop project known as Beach Bunny, has often written about the adulthood she knew would one day come for her....

EDM giant Galantis comes to Chicago to bring in the New Year right — with a boom

December 27, 2018 at 8:22 a.m.

Before they united to form the Scandinavian EDM behemoth known as Galantis, Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklöw were each hitmakers in their own right. Karlsson, better known as Bloodshy, helped...

Chicago’s Post Animal talks about its big year, what’s next and guitarist Joe Keery’s leap to ‘Stranger Things’ fame

December 11, 2018 at 6:37 p.m.

Logan Square psych-rock band Post Animal doesn’t have a frontperson, at least technically. All its members alternate singing lead, though some members get more outside attention than others. After joining...

Jingle stuff, youthful pop stars, Sabrina Carpenter, Lauv and all that fame

December 11, 2018 at 4:22 p.m.

Like Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez before her, Sabrina Carpenter used the Disney Channel as a springboard to pop stardom. Carpenter, 19, first began releasing music while starring in the...

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