Sarah Shook sings with sharpened clarity on ‘Years’
Sarah Shook's "Years" (Bloodshot) is an album about what happens to a woman when her seemingly endless trove of patience runs out. It's about letting go of a relationship (or...
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Birds of Chicago on vitality and how to overcome ‘the least sexy phrase’ in music history
Birds of Chicago blurs so many genres that it’s difficult to distill the band’s sound to a couple of words. But a few years ago the people in charge of...
Kacey Musgraves blows past country boundaries on ‘Golden Hour’
Kacey Musgraves made inroads in the last decade as a country upstart with earthiness and wit. She tied together the genre’s traditions (pedal steel and banjo in the recording studio,...
Gang of Youths finds hope after a nightmare
Last year, Gang of Youths released “Go Farther in Lightness” (Mosy/Sony) in its homeland of Australia, an album that has slowly made its way around the world. It’s a wave...
Lollapalooza’s daily breakdown: Familiar headliners, with Mars in a Friday orbit
With four-day passes finally gone, Lollapalooza has announced its daily lineups and will put one-day general admission tickets ($120 plus taxes and fees) on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday at...
Lorde injects pop songs with anxiety at Allstate Arena
Back in 2014 when Lorde was a newly minted pop star on her way to selling 3 million copies of her first album, she made her Chicago debut at the...
Slow Lollapalooza ticket sales reflect competition, price and security concerns
Lollapalooza, the juggernaut of Chicago music festivals, has arrived at a crossroads for the first time since landing in Grant Park in 2005. Four-day passes for Lollapalooza, Aug. 2-5 with...
The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Jack White among headliners who will bring the noise to Lollapalooza
The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Travis Scott, the National, Vampire Weekend and Odesza will headline Lollapalooza. The lineup, announced Wednesday for the festival Aug. 2 to 5...
Lollapalooza sales slow. Why?
Something strange was happening mid-afternoon Tuesday – Lollapalooza tickets were still on sale, more than five hours after they became available for the annual festival Aug. 2-5 in Grant Park....
At South by Southwest, musical diversity trumps adversity
It was not a South by Southwest Music Festival for the diversity-averse. Its very existence served as an act of defiance aimed at those who would fence off America from...