Review: Brittany Howard opens her national tour with spirited concert at Thalia Hall
"I ain’t sorry,” she declared near the close of an animated 75-minute show that focused on her forthcoming album "What Now."
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Review: Madonna’s Celebration Tour is her looking back at superstardom
“Are you ready to hear the story of my life?” When the person asking that question is Madonna, you don’t dare answer in the negative. Especially when the storytelling involves...
Top 10 live music concerts in Chicago for winter 2024: Living Colour, Jamila Woods and Mary Timony
Conventional wisdom holds that the live music scene suffers a prolonged hangover after the holidays. A peek at the calendar proves that false. Though it will be challenged to replicate...
Review: Feisty and ferocious, Chicago-born Patti Smith and band buzz with electricity at the Salt Shed
Add another feat to Patti Smith's incredible legacy. Two weeks after falling ill, becoming hospitalized and canceling dates in Italy, where she spent a "short period of observation in emergency"...
After decadeslong closure, Bridgeport’s Ramova Theatre gets its second act, reopening as a live music space
Take two. The Ramova Theatre is finally ready for its long-awaited second act. Nearly 40 years after closing, the former Bridgeport movie house — located a half-mile west of Guaranteed...
Review of U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas: This was the right band to open this brain-bending venue
Even better than the real thing? In the case of U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas, which completed the band's 2023 residency dates Saturday in advance of a late...
Review: Doja Cat wraps up her Scarlet Tour in Chicago — a new artist with a veteran’s confidence
Doja Cat had a packed audience seeing red Wednesday at United Center. Literally and figuratively. Performing the final date of her Scarlet Tour, the rapper-vocalist coordinated most of the visual...
Top 10 live concerts in Chicago in 2023: Springsteen rocked, Chance returned and yes, Taylor Swift lived up to the hype
Take a bow, Chicago. You rocked out in 2023. You packed stadiums, arenas, halls, parks, bars and practically every space in between. You sat, stood, screamed. And you took advantage...
Review: Angel Olsen keeps it real and heartfelt in her concert at Thalia Hall, with opener Kara Jackson
Call it kismet that Angel Olsen began the first of her sold-out three-night stand at Thalia Hall only four days after Merriam-Webster named "authentic" the word of the year. Friday...
Review: Kiss nears its End of the Road at the Allstate Arena: One more time with feeling
If anyone knows how to go out with a bang, it's Kiss. Performing the fourth-to-last scheduled concert of its career Monday at a jam-packed Allstate Arena, the band left nothing...