Greg Kot

To be labeled a "cult band" can be both an admiring nod to resilient if underappreciated talent and a curse. Let's face it, no one wants to be a great...

Here's the thing about most comebacks: They're rarely worth it, except to the artist's bank account. So skepticism, if not downright cynicism, precedes LCD Soundsystem's first album since 2010, a...

When Nashville resident Jason Isbell dubbed his latest album "The Nashville Sound," he wasn't just picking a fight with the powers-that-be that have redefined mainstream country as a kind of...

Wrigley Field's concert history for more than a decade has skewed heavily toward classic rock and bro country and drawn a similarly homogenous audience. But Lady Gaga changed all that...

Adam Granduciel is a music obsessive who turns every War on Drugs album into an epic struggle — each arrangement painstakingly layered and crafted, every detail meticulously considered and worried...

In Chicago indie music, one band is rarely enough. Whether it's a function of the Midwestern work ethic, a distaste for "normal" day jobs or creative obsession, many of the...

After blasting out five albums in the first nine years of Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Homme has backed off in the last decade in a considered effort to...

Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynne are sisters who were singing together while growing up in rural Alabama almost since they could talk. So it may seem incongruous that it took...

In their brief but white-hot run as sax-powered agit-punk provocateurs, Downtown Boys have demonstrated they know how to throw a barely-in-control party while pummeling assorted fascists, racists, homophobes and misogynists...