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Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

David Rawlings is still a beautiful storyteller

June 3, 2018 at 1:11 a.m.

David Rawlings laughs when he's asked to compare and contrast his singing and performing style to that of his musical partner Gillian Welch. The pair has made eight studio albums...

Noname performs on the final day of Lollapalooza in Chicago's Grant Park on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017.

‘Come at me, Rahm’: Music takes supporting role for Chance, Lollapalooza 2017

June 3, 2018 at 1:44 a.m.

"You have all the power," Chance the Rapper said during his headlining set Saturday night at Lollapalooza, gazing out at an audience that filled Hutchinson Field in Grant Park. "Put...

Lollapalooza day four: Arcade Fire recharges many of its past triumphs

June 3, 2018 at 1:33 a.m.

Reports from Sunday, day four at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK), Kevin Williams (KM), Jessi Roti (JR) and Tracy Swartz (TS): 9:15 p.m.: Arcade Fire reprises the...

Lollapalooza day three: Chance the Rapper mixes boldness, controversy and choppy momentum

June 3, 2018 at 1:39 a.m.

Reports from Saturday, day three at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK), Kevin Williams (KM), Jessi Roti (JR) and Tracy Swartz (TS): 9:22 p.m.: Chance the Rapper is...

Lollapalooza day two: The Killers are the kings of the empty-calorie anthem, Blink 182 feels like a tribute band

June 3, 2018 at 2:00 a.m.

Reports from Friday, day two at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK), Kevin Williams (KM), Jessi Roti (JR) and Tracy Swartz (TS): 9:26 p.m.: The Killers are the...

Review: Randy Newman still has much to say

June 3, 2018 at 1:56 a.m.

In the 1999 song "I'm Dead (But Don't Know It)," Randy Newman personifies a past-his-prime pop star. "I've got nothing left to say, but I'm gonna say it anyway," he...

Lollapalooza day one: Lorde, Muse cut short by weather evacuation

June 3, 2018 at 2:35 a.m.

Reports from Thursday, day one at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK), Kevin Williams (KM), Jessi Roti (JR) and Tracy Swartz (TS): 9:10 p.m.: Twenty minutes into her...

Greg Kot’s picks for Lollapalooza 2017

June 3, 2018 at 3:51 a.m.

Chance the Rapper, Arcade Fire and Lorde lead the Lollapalooza headliners coming to Grant Park Aug. 3 to 6. Also among the 170 bands scheduled for eight stages over four...

Ron Gallo taps into his inner musician via difficult times

June 3, 2018 at 2:45 a.m.

Ron Gallo's "Heavy Meta" (New West) is one of those albums that both energizes and polarizes. It was largely written at a time when Gallo's life was going through an...

Arcade Fire latest is ‘Everything’ except all that good

May 13, 2019 at 2:30 p.m.

Arcade Fire, a band not generally celebrated for its sense of humor, recently posted a spoof review of its fifth studio album, "Everything Now" (Columbia). It was perhaps designed as...

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