Greg Kot

In the video for Kendrick Lamar's recent single "Humble.," his hair bursts into flame. Lamar makes music like an artist running out of time. Just about everyone on the planet...

Robyn Hitchcock, friend of the three B's — Beatles, Byrds and (Syd) Barrett — and painter of surrealist word pictures, has spread 20 sturdy albums across four decades. His 21st...

The New Pornographers have a small problem that most bands would love to face: The band has been around so long (two decades), and been so consistent in putting out...

Lemmy's gone and Ozzy's put Black Sabbath to rest, but Wino endures. Though not nearly the mainstream icon that Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister and the now Sabbath-less Ozzy Osbourne became, Scott...

Margo Price has had a heck of a year. "Midwest Farmer's Daughter," her debut album for Jack White's Third Man Records, landed in the top 10 without a charting single,...

Aimee Mann has been typecast as a singer who always sees the dark lining in the silver cloud, and so she doubles down on that reputation by titling her latest...

The Regrettes' "A Living Human Girl" is a spitball of an anthem, a song that every girl needs to hear — and every guy too. "Yeah, definitely the guys," the...

At times, "Hamilton" is one of those rare plays that makes you think that Broadway may yet use the language of contemporary music as something more than just an add-on...

No one would ever characterize Spoon as a dance band, but its core is as much about groove as songs — an emphasis that has never been more pronounced than...

The title of Jenny Hval's latest album, "Blood Bitch" (Sacred Bones), to some fans might evoke the Norwegian singer's past in a goth-metal band, or perhaps signal a Diamanda Galas-like...