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Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Lollapalooza daily schedule is revealed and the conflicts are agonizing

June 4, 2018 at 10:19 p.m.

Feeling a little conflicted these days? It's that time of year again with the release Tuesday of Lollapalooza's daily schedule. The festival grid shows when and where each of 170...

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>

Ravinia pop music lineup spans ground from Bowie to Biz Markie

May 13, 2019 at 2:28 p.m.

The summer lineup for Ravinia will include a rare sextuple bill of '90s hitmakers — TLC, Biz Markie, All-4-One, O-Town, Snap! and Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath — on Sept. 16....

Greg Dulli’s retooled Afghan Whigs push on ‘In Spades’

May 13, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

Greg Dulli is no psychoanalyst, but he plays one on "In Spades" (Sub Pop). Resurrecting Afghan Whigs after a 16-year hiatus in 2014, he's back for round 2 of the...

Black Angels chant their ‘death songs’

May 13, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

It seemed like only a matter of time before the Black Angels made explicit their debt to the Velvet Undergound by titling their latest album "Death Song" (Partisan). The Velvets'...

Gorillaz throw a post-apocalyptic dance party on ‘Humanz’

May 13, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

The first Gorillaz album in six years, "Humanz" (Warner), ends with a tongue-in-cheek musical detente between two former Britpop rivals — Blur's Damon Albarn and Oasis' Noel Gallagher. "We got...

Aimee Mann hasn’t run out of surprises

June 5, 2018 at 2:21 a.m.

Aimee Mann has been making records since the '80s, and you'd think that by now she'd done it all. But her latest, "Mental Illness" (SuperEgo Records), breaks new ground. "I...

Prince’s posthumous ‘Deliverance’ EP is great for about 3 minutes

June 30, 2019 at 3:13 a.m.

What a tease. "Deliverance," a six-track EP of previously unreleased Prince songs, surfaced a few days ago and then was quickly removed from several major digital music sites, including iTunes,...

A re-creation of the apartment in London, shared by members of the Rolling Stones, is part of "Exhibitionism" at Navy Pier.

Ranking the Rolling Stones: Moments that matter from the Navy Pier show

May 13, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

"Exhibitionism," the first major Rolling Stones exhibit, will be up through July 30 at Navy Pier. It brings together 500 items spanning the band's 50-year career and spreads them across...

Prince’s Revolution celebrates his greatest era with Metro shows

May 13, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Prince's death, and the band with whom he worked most closely in his '80s heyday, the Revolution, is still reeling from it. The musicians...

Riot Fest 2017 headliners: Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Jawbreaker

June 5, 2018 at 3:59 a.m.

Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age and punk veterans Jawbreaker will headline Riot Fest when it returns Sept. 15-17 to Douglas Park. The lineup also includes New Order,...

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