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People cheer for Lil Uzi Vert on Sunday of the 2018 edition of Lollapalooza.

Lollapalooza ticket sales are slooow. Is it lineup or fest fatigue?

June 16, 2019 at 4:38 p.m.

Once a Lollapalooza sell-out could be measured in minutes. But that era appears to have passed. Four-day passes ($340) for Lollapalooza went on sale three weeks ago Tuesday and they're...

Nico Segal and Nate Fox turn Social Experiment roots into a brilliant debut album

April 12, 2019 at 8:49 a.m.

There's something elusive yet joyous about "Intellexual" (Fantasy), the self-titled debut album of the new group formed by Nico Segal and Nate Fox, two increasingly high-profile members of Chance the...

Wax Trax! Records radical legacy: Trust the artists

April 11, 2019 at 10:04 a.m.

Jim Nash was one of those people who always seemed to be up to something, a wicked smile or a wry joke always in his pocket. He was a music...

Priests’ brand of musical seduction hits hard

April 5, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

Scan the song titles on Priests’ second album, “The Seduction of Kansas” (Sister Polygon), and involuntary eye-rolling might commence. “Youtube Sartre”? Really? OK, so maybe it is a song about...

How Delvon Lamarr went international after decades as a local star in Seattle

April 4, 2019 at 2:32 p.m.

The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio is a formidable jazz-soul combo that lately has been rocking clubs from the Pacific Northwest to Europe. But only a few years ago, Lamarr’s career...

Mekons report back on their camping trip to the desert on ‘Deserted’

March 29, 2019 at 12:06 p.m.

Imagine the Mekons on camel back, cursing and shouting in a dust storm as they watch a manic Peter O’Toole in his blue-eyed “Lawrence of Arabia” prime leading yet another...

Ian Hunter and the ‘X’ factor in Mott the Hoople’s reunion

March 30, 2019 at 4:39 p.m.

Mott the Hoople was Ian Hunter’s last chance in rock ‘n’ roll. He was 30 years old and had spent half his life working in factories. But he got a...

Country music artist Kacey Musgraves performs during a sold-out show at the Chicago Theatre, March 25, 2019.

Kacey Musgraves in concert: Music, message without borders

March 26, 2019 at 9:56 a.m.

Kacey Musgraves acknowledged that love songs tend to be kind of cheesy. Yet she threw herself into a bunch of them Monday at the sold-out Chicago Theatre, less bromides than...

Jenny Lewis’ lush songs tell a chilling story on ‘On the Line’

March 22, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

Like Jenny Lewis’ three previous solo albums, “On the Line” (Warner) embraces a different era of music-making. It evokes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and the lush studio production...

Kacey Musgraves performs during Music MidTown 2018 at Piedmont Park, in Atlanta.

Lollapalooza 2019 lineup: From Ariana Grande to Shaq. Yes, that Shaq.

June 16, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino, Twenty One Pilots and the Strokes will be among the headliners when Lollapalooza returns to Grant Park on Aug. 1-4. Also headlining: Tame Impala, Flume, the...

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