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These are the Facs: One of Chicago’s best bands is tough to pin down

January 16, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.

When Facs released its debut album last year, co-founder Brian Case wanted to move beyond the sound and legacy left by his previous band, the mighty Disappears. It was daunting...

Sharon Van Etten, from a 2014 performance at Pitchfork Music Festival.

Sharon Van Etten enters an unsettling new phase on ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’

January 11, 2019 at 12:32 p.m.

Sharon Van Etten took a break after her 2014 album, “Are We There,” which tied together many of the themes that dominated the first phase of her career. In a...

An aerial view of the Lincoln Yards site located at N. Southport Avenue and W. Cortland Street on Sept. 28, 2018.

Latest Lincoln Yards twist only ratchets up music club owners’ anxiety

January 11, 2019 at 7:45 a.m.

Chicago’s music community, skeptical from the start about a $5 billion Lincoln Yards makeover that would include an entertainment district run by Live Nation, has not been assuaged by Ald....

Chicago’s Cave keeps digging for the groove eternal

January 10, 2019 at 9:27 a.m.

Cave likes to get real, real gone, to paraphrase psychedelic visionary Elvis Presley. It all started 14 years ago when band co-founder Cooper Crain was a teenage drummer growing up...

Jerry Mickelson (left) and Arny Granat in 1974. Co-founder Granat is leaving the company and the music business.

Jam co-founder Arny Granat leaving pioneering concert company

January 9, 2019 at 2:38 p.m.

Jam Productions’ Arny Granat, cofounder of the longest-running independent concert promotion company in Chicago, says he’s had enough of the music business. Granat announced Tuesday that he would leave Jam...

Chicagoan of the Year: Rapper Saba turns grief into a year of musical catharsis

December 27, 2018 at 5:01 a.m.

Saba is only 24 years old, but sometimes it feels like he’s packed several lifetimes of accomplishment and sorrow into his young career. In many ways, his last couple of...

New Zealand artist Lorde performs at Allstate Arena Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Rosemont, Ill.

Top 10 concerts of 2018: Janelle Monae, Margo Price, Paul Simon

December 21, 2018 at 3:29 p.m.

As we gear up for a new year of concerts, here are my favorite shows from 2018: 1. Janelle Monae at the Chicago Theatre, July 5: The singer put her...

Anderson .Paak performs during an October tribute event for the late Mac Miller in Los Angeles.

Pop music winter preview: A sampling of rock, pop, hip-hop

January 6, 2019 at 2:01 p.m.

It may be winter, but Chicago concert bookings haven’t slowed. Here’s a sampling of some of the more notable rock, pop and hip-hop shows in the next few months (listed...

Top 10 Chicago albums of 2018

December 17, 2018 at 3:28 p.m.

Once again Chicago's independent music thrived in 2018. Here are my favorite local indie releases of the year: 1. Noname, “25” (self-released): Fatimah Warner is on a mission. After a...

David Bowie performs at the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, western England in 2000,

Bowie on cruise control for ‘Glastonbury 2000’

December 11, 2018 at 5:54 p.m.

After a decade of treating his hits like a nuisance, David Bowie played a career retrospective set in front of an adoring, boisterous audience in 2000 at the Glastonbury Festival...

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