Twin Peaks’ next big adventure
Chicago band Twin Peaks hasn't settled down, and that makes each of its three albums feel like new adventures. All the way back in 2013 when they were still teenagers,...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
Peter Wolf shares his cure for loneliness
Peter Wolf has seemingly had it all. He's topped the charts and headlined arenas as the singer with the J. Geils Band, and is in the midst of a long-running...
Radiohead releases ‘Burn the Witch’ on resurrected website
Leave it to Radiohead to return with a song that evokes a nightmare as much as an oddly catchy single. After Internet rumblings that the British quintet was up to...
Drake’s surprise release ‘Views’ is a snooze
It's the era of the stealth album, but sometimes a "surprise" album isn't all that surprising. Take Drake's "Views" (OVO Sound/Young Money), for example, which floated online a few days...
Brian Eno brings another wave of innovation with ‘The Ship’
Brian Eno is perhaps best known as producer to the stars (U2, Coldplay, David Bowie, Talking Heads). But as estimable as some of that work has been, quintessential Eno can...
Courtney Barnett shreds at Riviera
Courtney Barnett brought her bazooka to work Thursday at the sold-out Riviera. Most musicians would call it a guitar. But Barnett made it sound like something that blows brick walls...
Into It. Over It. gets beyond cabin fever
"Every band wants to do a record in a cabin, right?" Into It. Over It. singer Evan Weiss says with a laugh. There's a lot of romance and myth attached...
Tickets for Ravinia’s summer music lineup available at 5 a.m. Tuesday
Bob Dylan has long cited the Staple Singers as a musical inspiration, and Dylan once asked Mavis Staples to marry him. Now the master songwriter and the gospel great are...
Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ contains singer’s most fully realized music yet
Beyonce has made a habit of dropping fully finished albums out of nowhere, and she did it once more this weekend with the arrival of "Lemonade" (Parkwood). It'll take a...
Pop music superstar Prince is dead at 57
Prince, a quintuple threat instrumentalist-singer-songwriter-producer-performer who became one of the towering figures in music the last four decades, has died at 57. He was found dead Thursday morning at his...