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Carrie Newcomer’s sound comes from home

December 15, 2018 at 1:45 a.m.

Carrie Newcomer has always been profoundly connected to the heartland. In the pre-internet 1980s, when aspiring musicians often relocated to music industry epicenters LA, New York and Nashville, the singer-songwriter...

Deep Dark Woods comes from Canada with an Americana sound

December 15, 2018 at 12:02 a.m.

January is national soup month. That's great timing for fans of the Americana band the Deep Dark Woods. Among the merchandise promoting the Canadian group's latest release is a wooden...

Life is still a highway for Tom Cochrane

December 14, 2018 at 11:09 p.m.

Over the course of his career, Canadian artist Tom Cochrane has released 17 albums, toured the world and won an armload of Juno Awards (Canada’s version of the Grammys). The...

Jade Bird is singing her way across America

December 17, 2018 at 1:53 p.m.

Jade Bird is happily gigging her way across America. Aside from a few previous appearances in the States, including some opening slots for the band First Aid Kit, this is...

Seems like Rebecca Loebe has been singing since forever

December 17, 2018 at 12:54 p.m.

Rebecca Loebe doesn't view music as a competition. But nonetheless, the singer-songwriter has found herself in two major song contests. In 2009 she won the prestigious New Folk Award for...

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>

Modern English has found its somewhat nostalgic happy place

December 17, 2018 at 11:45 a.m.

Modern English first charmed the pop world with the catchy single "I Melt with You," a centerpiece in the 1983 romantic-comedy "Valley Girl." Today, four of the group's original five...

Lukas Nelson doesn’t fall far from the family tree

December 18, 2018 at 12:38 a.m.

Lukas Nelson has spent over a decade honing his chops on stage and in the studio with his band Promise of the Real. When it comes to building career longevity...

Willie Watson sounds like a man from another time

June 2, 2018 at 1:26 a.m.

He's only 38, but Willie Watson often sounds like a man from an earlier time. On his new album, "Folksinger Vol. 2," the Americana singer, guitarist and banjo player covers...

John Popper on 30 years of Blues Traveler and heading out solo

June 2, 2018 at 3:19 a.m.

Several decades ago, Blues Traveler was among the new generation of young jam bands following in the mighty footsteps of the Grateful Dead. As Blues Traveler celebrates its 30th anniversary...

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi indulges his inner nightclub singer

June 2, 2018 at 6:25 a.m.

Isaac Mizrahi has dressed some of the most style-conscious women in the world, acted in films and hosted his own TV show on the Oxygen network. But the famous fashion...

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