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Arcade Fire’s Win Butler: ‘We’re one of the best rock bands on Earth now’

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

Talk to the members of Arcade Fire and invariably they’ll tell you they’ve always been playing looking at the long view. For the ever-popular Montreal-based sextet, what people think of...

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>

Deer Tick has settled down, and that’s good

June 1, 2018 at 9:44 p.m.

Until a few years ago, John McCauley was the sort of musician people worried about. The Deer Tick singer had long subsisted on a frightening diet of drugs, alcohol and...

Haley Fohr Embraces the Dissonant on New Circuit Des Yeux Album

July 2, 2026 at 3:44 p.m.

Indie rock’s foremost weirdo shows her vocal versatility on Reaching for Indigo.

John Mayer wants you to know he isn’t as bad a guy as you think

June 2, 2018 at 7:03 p.m.

There was a time, not that long ago, when John Mayer was hardly thrilled with how his life and career were playing out. Sure, he was a Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording...

Green Day turned back time in raucous Wrigley set

June 2, 2018 at 7:47 p.m.

What a sight it is to see Billie Joe Armstrong, 45 years young, eyes still bulging in maniacal purpose, prowling the stage at Wrigley Field and ripping a crowd into...

Van Jones holds feet to the fire, from stage rather than screen

June 1, 2019 at 6:58 a.m.

Much has changed in the wake of last year's presidential election. But as Van Jones sees it, his line of thinking isn't included. "I've literally been saying the exact same...

Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn won’t sit still

June 3, 2018 at 10:53 a.m.

In the 16 years since Gorillaz released its self-titled debut album, the virtual, alternative hip-hop band's co-creators, Blur musician Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett, have wrangled an impressive, wildly...

The Grateful Dead perform at Soldier Field on July 3, 2015.

Dead and Company keeps the Grateful Dead spirit alive

August 18, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

Bob Weir has been playing Grateful Dead songs for more than 50 years. And yet, even after thousands of performances, the meditative, reflective guitarist finds he's still making new discoveries...

Folk Guitarist James Elkington Has a Crush on Chicago

July 2, 2026 at 3:59 p.m.

The musician discusses a career of collaboration, Jeff Tweedy, and more

Dreamcar has no doubt about the supergroup’s tunes

December 17, 2018 at 5:03 p.m.

On a recent spring evening, Tony Kanal and his bandmates prepared to take the stage at the Roxy in Los Angeles. It'd been 21 years since the Southern California-based bassist...

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