Greg Kot

Lucy Dacus’ modesty precedes her. Her 2016 debut album, “No Burden,” was a school project that wasn’t necessarily designed to introduce her to the world. But “it turned out better...

Merrill Garbus knows how to entertain. She was once a children’s puppeteer, after all, which means she needed to be on her game all the time lest she lose the...

Dessa, aka Margret Wander, once described her philosophy studies at the University of Minnesota as nothing more and nothing less than “rigorous daydreaming,” and it led to a career as...

On his latest album, “Transangelic Exodus” (Bella Union), Ezra Furman decided to go for broke. He crafted what he calls a “queer outlaw saga” — a series of vignettes that...

There’s a fleeting glimpse of something delectable at the start of Roxy Music’s first album, and yet just out of reach. “I tried but I could not find a way,”...

Sometimes a guy can only take so much. Mac McCaughan arrived at that moment in November 2016, around the time of the presidential election, and poured his unfiltered anger into...

Enslaved’s Ivar Bjornson is an intimidating presence, with his imposing physique and beard and his band’s early associations with black metal, one of the more extreme of the heavy metal...

Billy Corgan, aka William Patrick Corgan, is having his Blues Brothers moment. He’s getting the band back together, sort of. Like everything in the world of the Smashing Pumpkins since...