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Kendrick Lamar performs at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards show in January 2018. The rapper has eight nominations for the upcoming Grammys.

Grammy Awards nominations: Kendrick Lamar and Drake push rap power to the fore. But where’s Taylor Swift?

December 11, 2018 at 6:05 p.m.

Hip-hop continues to dominate pop music, rock keeps sliding, Taylor Swift appears to be falling off, and hip-hop giants Kendrick Lamar and Drake are solidifying their grip as the planet’s...

Pete Shelley (guitarist at right) performs with The Buzzcocks at Metro in 1991.

Pete Shelley, leader of influential punk rock band Buzzcocks, dead at 63

March 29, 2019 at 10:53 a.m.

Pete Shelley, who died Thursday at age 63, was a subversive songwriter who helped sharpen the leading edge of punk. The first incarnation of his band the Buzzcocks didn’t survive...

Femdot performs at Lollapalooza on Saturday, August 4, 2018. (Hilary Higgins for RedEye)

Evanston’s Femdot joins front ranks of Chicago’s hip-hop wave

December 11, 2018 at 5:03 p.m.

Chicagoans have a complicated relationship with summer, so it’s fitting that the video for Femdot’s “summer” song, “Snow in July,” was released just as the city experienced its first taste...

Best rock and rap albums of 2018: Sarah Shook, Noname lead the way

December 11, 2018 at 4:50 p.m.

Thousands of albums get released each year. I spent time with a few hundred of them in 2018, and here are my favorites: 1. Sarah Shook, “Years” (Bloodshot): Sometimes relationships...

Jeff Tweedy solo album, ‘Warm,’ mines anger, humor, consolation

December 12, 2018 at 2:15 a.m.

With Wilco on a year-long hiatus, Jeff Tweedy burrowed into a memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back),” and settled into his Chicago studio to knock out a few...

Tim Tuten, left, and his wife Katie Tuten, owners of The Hideout bar, during a recent meeting about the Lincoln Yards project.

Chicago music venues might be offering too little, too late as Lincoln Yards looms

December 12, 2018 at 2:15 a.m.

The news that a few of the city’s most respected clubs are joining hands to pump the brakes on the $5 billion Sterling Bay development project is kind of depressing....

Parquet Courts underlines the importance of speaking out

December 12, 2018 at 1:50 a.m.

Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage knows the risks of writing songs with political themes. But that didn’t deter him as he dove into sessions for what would become one of the...

Mick Jagger, left, and Keith Richards, of The Rolling Stones, from a 2018 "No Filter" tour date in London. The band is coming to Soldier Field in June.

Keith Richards on the new Stones tour: ‘What else would I be doing?’

December 12, 2018 at 1:49 a.m.

Keith Richards is on the phone talking about one of his favorite subjects. “The rhythm section … I love rhythm sections, it all starts there,” says the Rolling Stones guitarist...

"Oxnard" is the newest album from Anderson.Paak.

Anderson Paak can’t scale the heights a second time on ‘Oxnard’

November 21, 2018 at 2:23 p.m.

After a decade of struggle, Anderson Paak was seemingly a past-his-prime 29-year-old drummer-rapper-singer when things turned around. After a half-dozen cameos on Dr. Dre’s 2015 comeback album, “Compton,” Paak earned...

Martin Atkins revisits the hard lessons of PIL

December 12, 2018 at 12:05 a.m.

Martin Atkins has turned multi-tasking into a career. In his own words, he has “practiced for catastrophe” and is making the most out of a hyphenated life: drummer-songwriter-producer-entrepreneur-teacher-speaker-rabblerouser. The Chicago-based...

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