Greg Kot

Sir the Baptist climbed inside a casket one Sunday afternoon in Grant Park a few months ago at the Lollapalooza festival, and imagined himself as a corpse. "Would you care...

Riot Fest returns to Douglas Park this weekend with dozens of bands and artists playing 30 hours of music across six stages over three days. Here are a few of...

Jamila Woods turns 27 next month, and she has been performing as a spoken-word artist and singer for a decade. She enjoyed some success with the duo M&O and won...

Fall is always the busiest time of year for new recordings, and this year is no exception. Here's a preview of some of the more anticipated new releases: Rock Handsome...

Whether it's forming a band without really knowing how to play their instruments, flirting with country music even though there aren't many cowboys or honky-tonks in their native Great Britain...

J. Cole will headline Common's Aahh! Fest Sept. 24-25 in Union Park. The hip-hop artist, who has sold more than 2 million copies of his latest album, "2014 Forest Hills...

After a few years devoted to side projects, Wilco re-emerged last year with "Star Wars," a fancifully titled surprise album that sounded scruffier, rougher and more off-handed than anything the...

When members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill first got together to form Prophets of Rage, they made a point of playing gigs that so-called supergroups...

Angel Olsen's fourth album, "My Woman" (Jagjaguwar), begins in a landscape of icy synthesizers and finishes with a piano ballad so intimate that it's unnerving. Olsen's songwriting has a way...

Jamila Woods has spent most of her life multitasking, so juggling writing, education, community work and an increasingly high-profile music career doesn't faze her. "It's important to immerse myself in...