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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>

Kendrick Lamar alone with his ‘secret society’ at United Center

August 18, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Kendrick Lamar sprinkled some eye candy Thursday at the packed United Center. He starred as "Kung Fu Kenny" in a martial-arts video and was occasionally joined by a few sword-wielding...

Chance the Rapper is a man with a plan in a ‘dead industry’

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

In a 2013 interview, when Chance the Rapper was still little known outside of Chicago, he dismissed the notion of ever seeing the need to sign with a music label....

Vic Mensa, Chicago’s rising rap star, finds redemption the hard way

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

When you're a biracial kid growing up on 47th Street as Vic Mensa did, chaos and sanity, violence and sanctuary, guns and books, hustlers and educators live side by side,...

Roger Waters is, for a change, happy to be on tour

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

Roger Waters is a sometimes reluctant road warrior. He expressed his disconnect from touring (among many other issues) in the '70s and famously wrote much of Pink Floyd's 1979 album...

Pitchfork 2017: Despite growing pains, new vibe, fest delivers talent

June 3, 2018 at 6:37 a.m.

Jeff Rosenstock is a 34-year-old punk-rock lifer who played one of the biggest gigs of his life at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park over the weekend. And he...

Pitchfork day 3: Jamila Woods makes the most of her moment, Solange brings theatrical panache

June 3, 2018 at 6:53 a.m.

Reports from Sunday, day three at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, from Greg Kot (GK) and Bob Gendron (BG): 1:17 p.m.: Kilo Kish begins the final day of...

Pitchfork day 2: PJ Harvey reminds everyone who’s boss, A Tribe Called Quest is in a boisterous mood

June 29, 2019 at 9:08 a.m.

Reports from Saturday, day two at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, from Greg Kot (GK) and Bob Gendron (BG): 1:10 p.m.: PJ Harvey probably won't be playing guitar...

Pitchfork day 1: LCD Soundsystem picks up where it left off, Kamaiyah makes an impression

June 3, 2018 at 7:32 a.m.

Reports from Friday, day one at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, from Greg Kot (GK), and Bob Gendron (BG): 1:25 p.m.: Madame Gandhi reads lines from "The Feminist...

Public Enemy almost gets it right on ‘Desert’

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

No comebacks allowed, no hiatuses needed. Public Enemy has been cranking out albums with regularity for 30 years, ever since breaking out with the agit-rap masterpieces "Yo! Bum Rush the...

Pitchfork picks: Greg Kot’s 17 must-see acts

June 3, 2018 at 7:41 a.m.

It's time for another round of adventurous music at Union Park. Out of the 41 acts, here are 17 not-to-miss including rare Chicago appearances by the Feelies and PJ Harvey,...

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