Dan Kening

This marks what is very likely the summer's hottest concert week, what with Pink Floyd, the Eagles, Janet Jackson, Counting Crows and Tori Amos all playing Chicago in the next...

Jimmie Vaughan Strange Pleasure (Epic) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) After keeping an ultra-low profile since the death of his more celebrated younger brother Stevie Ray at Alpine Valley in 1990, former Fabulous Thunderbirds...

Auteurs Now I'm a Cowboy (Hut U.S.A.) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) The Auteurs' Luke Haines is the latest in a long line of illustrious Brits like Ray Davies, Paul Weller and Morrissey who...

Regardless of how you may feel about their straight-from-the-'70s style of progressive rock, you have to give Yes credit for pushing the technological envelope. At their concert Saturday at the...

FitzGerald's-that roots music treasure in Berwyn-is once again poised to host its annual four-day American Music Festival, scheduled to run Thursday through July 3. Now in its 13th year, the...

Boston Walk On (MCA) (STAR) 1/2 "Walk On" is less an album of music than a piece of easily-marketed product. It's got the familiar "Boston" logo on the cover, so...

Singer-songwriter Matraca Berg's concert originally scheduled for Thursday at Schubas has been rescheduled for July 28. According to a spokesman for Jam Productions, a sinus infection caused the rescheduling of...

If you draw a blank at the name Matraca Berg, you probably know some of her songs. She wrote "Hey Cinderella" for Suzy Bogguss, "Wrong Side of Memphis" for Trisha...

Spin Doctors Turn It Upside Down (Epic) (STAR) 1/2 One of the harder to fathom rock 'n' roll success stories of late is the Spin Doctors. Their brand of innocuous...

It's hard to reconcile the soft-spoken Patti LaBelle calling on the phone with the woman whose uninhibited, stratospheric vocals are among the most powerful and dazzling in all of pop...