Greg Kot

On a night dominated by unlikely musical collaborations of all kinds – from a mini-Beatles reunion to Stetson-wearing Madonna jamming with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at a wedding – the...

Jean-Philip Grobler spent years churning out commercial jingles to pay the bills while working on the music that really inspired him. Now Grobler's band, St. Lucia, is drawing acclaim for...

At the 56th annual Grammy Awards Jan. 26(7 p.m. on CBS) the Recording Academy again aims to reward "artistic excellence" in 82 categories. Below are foolhardy predictions on how the...

"Warpaint" Warpaint 3 1/2 stars (out of 4) The Los Angeles quartet Warpaint has been together for 10 years, and in that time has managed to release only an EP...

Tribune music critic Greg Kot's new book, "I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers and the March Up Freedom's Highway" (Scribner) is out Tuesday. It traces the rise...

Dance music has never been a particular favorite at the Grammy Awards. For decades, even as electronic music sold millions of albums around the world, it was virtually ignored by...

Electronic composer Nicolas Jaar and jazz bassist Dave Harrington describe their collaboration in Darkside as an accident. And if the genre-warping music they created on their acclaimed 2013 debut album,...