Rolling Stones summer tour to hit Soldier Field
The Rolling Stones are re-fueling their tour machine for a series of U.S. stadium dates next year, including a June 21 stop at Soldier Field. The Chicago stop, announced Monday,...
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Why the Hideout is vital to Chicago’s music scene
What’s all this fuss about saving the Hideout? It’s the little bar that’s standing its ground amid a rising $5 billion tide of corporate buildings and music venues that are...
The Beatles ‘White Album’ at 50: A classic or an overindulgence?
When it comes to Beatles nostalgia, the band’s self-titled 1968 “White Album” has a king-size reputation — the biggest album (30 songs!) by the biggest band in the world at...
Swamp Dogg does his version of a Rihanna record
Swamp Dogg was in no hurry to put his personal stamp on the Auto-Tune trend (or is it a scourge?). The prolific 76-year-old pioneer of greasy, warped R&B spent decades...
Rosanne Cash review: Intimate songs, big subjects at Old Town
Rosanne Cash likes to underplay her songs. There’s no sales job going on, just a quiet trust in the power of words, the pull of melody. She takes on big...
Vince Staples revisits a tumultuous childhood on ‘FM!’
Given the ambition of Vince Staples’ first two albums – the sprawling “Summertime ’06” (2015) and the more experimental EDM accents that flavored “Big Fish Theory” (2017) – the 22-minute...
‘Horn From the Heart’ review: A gritty look at the late, great Paul Butterfield, a Chicago blues man
A white kid had to be tough, confident and maybe a little nuts to venture into the South Side blues clubs in Chicago during the heyday of Muddy Waters and...
Boygenius takes Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker tour to new level
A tour bringing together three rising-star songwriters coming off acclaimed albums seemed like a great idea: Done, let’s do it, a no-brainer. But Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers...
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ finds 2 redeeming moments amid cliches (and factual errors)
There are a couple of entertaining scenes in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the new Queen biopic. Unfortunately, you have to wade through more than two hours of slow-moving, cliche-packed melodrama to get...
Rosanne Cash review: A voice of empathy amid uncertainty on ‘She Remembers Everything’
Rosanne Cash lives in a world of details where each word counts. On “She Remembers Everything” (Blue Note), she chisels out small stories, little vignettes of a life that can...