Double Door won’t go down without a fight
Joe Shanahan, co-owner of Double Door, one of the anchor clubs during the rise of the Wicker Park music scene in the '90s, is facing eviction. But in his first...
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Low explores turmoil in sonics and life
Low has been making fine albums for two decades, even though the trio works within seemingly narrow confines: drums, bass, guitar, low-key vocals, beautiful harmonies, measured tempos. Slow and quiet...
Black Sabbath says farewell at United Center
Black Sabbath threw itself a going-away party Friday at the United Center, and more than 20,000 of its closest friends packed the place. The attire was black. Tattoos were optional,...
Tortoise at its best when surprises flow on ‘The Catastrophist’
At the start of Tortoise in the early '90s, the possibilities seemed infinite. The Chicago band began as outlet for local musicians moonlighting from their jobs in more conventional rock...
Tedeschi Trucks Band’s David Bowie connection
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi had a rare insight into David Bowie's final year of life because their bass player, Tim Lefebvre, played on Bowie's farewell album, "Blackstar." "Bowie was...
Glenn Frey, Eagles guitarist, dies at 67
Glenn Frey co-founded the Eagles, one of the most commercially successful bands of the last half-century, and left behind a trove of indelible melodies including 17 Top-40 hits. He died...
Springsteen dives into deep end of ‘The River’ at United Center
On Tuesday at the United Center, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band arrived at the song that served as the theme of the evening and things got downright eerie....
Savages drop the fists just for a minute on ‘Adore Life’
Savages arrived in 2013 pointing fingers and blasting guitars, its discontents compressed into four-minute blasts of music notably short on frills. The U.K. quartet was the kind of band that...
Frankie Knuckles’ legacy still standing tall
Frankie Knuckles died in 2014, but he still casts a long shadow over dance music in Chicago and around the world. That much will be evident when a gaggle of...
Kot: Bowie transformed pop music, and pop culture
David Bowie entered the music world as David Jones in the 1960s, trained on a plastic saxophone. When he left that world Sunday at age 69, he had altered it...