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Musical guest Bob Dylan performs on the Late Show with David Letterman, Tuesday May 19, 2015.

Dylan takes another stroll down Tin Pan Alley on ‘Fallen Angels’

May 13, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

With "Fallen Angels" (Columbia), Bob Dylan makes at least one thing clear: It seems we got him all wrong, again. Just when it appears possible to fix some aspect of...

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>

Riot Fest lineup adds Morrissey, Ween, Death Cab for Cutie

June 10, 2018 at 4:06 p.m.

Morrissey, Ween, Death Cab for Cutie and Social Distortion will top the Riot Fest lineup alongside the previously announced reunion of the Glenn Danzig-led Misfits. The festival, which returns Sept....

Thom Yorke of the rock band Radiohead performs during a concert at the Bullrings of Nimes in the French southern city of Nimes.

5 can’t-miss summer concerts and music festivals for 2016

May 23, 2019 at 11:52 a.m.

Sturgill Simpson: The new voice of honky-tonk surrealism. Go for the songs (which include a reinvention of Nirvana's "In Bloom") and stay for the guitar playing (Estonian virtuoso Laur Joamets)....

Chance the Rapper makes freedom sing on ‘Coloring Book’

June 10, 2018 at 2:51 p.m.

"I don't make songs for free, I sing for freedom," Chance the Rapper raps on his latest mixtape. "Don't believe in kings, believe in the kingdom."In a few seconds, the...

Tom Petty’s Mudcrutch is the band that can’t be denied

May 13, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

Mudcrutch is the band that couldn't be denied. Tom Petty started as a bass player in the Gainesville, Fla., quintet in the early '70s, and the band had promise and...

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).
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-the-meg-rev-0806-story.html" target="_blank">Read the review.</a>

Reunited Misfits to headline Riot Fest Chicago

June 10, 2018 at 2:41 p.m.

Riot Fest will begin rolling out its 2016 lineup Thursday by announcing that the reunited Misfits will perform at the festival Sept. 16-18 in Douglas Park, as well as in...

Moby’s ‘Porcelain’ memoir is exceptional and incisive

May 13, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

Rock memoirs rarely live up to expectations, but Moby's forthcoming "Porcelain" (Penguin Press) is an exception. It ranks with Kim Gordon's "Girl in a Band" and a handful of others...

Lollapalooza 2016 schedule released

June 10, 2018 at 2:54 p.m.

LCD Soundsystem or Ellie Goulding? Future or M83? St. Lucia vs. Grimes, and Vic Mensa up against Disclosure. Let the crying and hand-wringing begin. The Lollapalooza daily grid is out...

Radiohead’s new album: Tiny details and big orchestrations

June 10, 2018 at 4:32 p.m.

In "The Numbers," a new song from Radiohead's ninth studio album, "A Moon Shaped Pool" (XL), Thom Yorke calls for a revolution, in the way Radiohead does these sorts of...

Bob Mould on a power trip at Metro

May 13, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

Bob Mould arrived on stage Friday at Metro and grappled momentarily with a balky guitar. "I haven't played one note and it's already blown up," he said. It was to...

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