Jenny Lewis concert at the Vic: Slick, caustic
Beachball-size balloons descended from the rafters and bounded around the stage Monday at the Vic Theatre, and it threw Jenny Lewis off her game for a minute. "I'm a professional...
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Tame Impala brings soul and groove to Riviera
Tame Impala's third album isn't due out for another two months, but the band's mover and shaker, singer-guitarist Kevin Parker, couldn't wait that long. He got right down to it...
B.B. King dead at 89
It may have been a farewell or a passing of the torch for B.B. King when he played Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival at a sold-out Toyota Park in Brideview,...
Torres writes songs that spare no one
Torres starts her latest album with a song called "Strange Hellos" that builds from deceptive calm into a hurricane of repressed anger. Nine songs later, she finishes the album with...
Spoon, Weezer to headline at Taste of Chicago
Weezer, Erykah Badu, Spoon, the Chieftains and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly will headline Taste of Chicago on July 8-12 in Grant Park. Here's the lineup to be announced Tuesday by...
No resting on debut laurels for Emmylou Harris-Rodney Crowell partnership
The 2013 album co-authored by Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, "Old Yellow Moon," was surprising only in that it took so long to happen. It marked the first full-length collaboration...
Passion Pit takes its pop music personally
When Passion Pit released its 2012 album, "Gossamer," singer Michael Angelakos talked openly in interviews about the bipolar disorder that informed many of the songs. Though his struggles framed the...
Van Hunt explodes boundaries on ‘The Fun Rises, the Fun Sets’
Van Hunt was a rising R&B star a decade ago, with a brace of writing credits for singers such as Dionne Farris and Rahsaan Patterson and Grammy-winning music of his...
‘Montage of Heck’ looks back at Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain had a self-destruct button, and he pressed it almost every time he was onstage. Guitars, drums, his body — nothing was safe. Unlike, say, the theater inherent in...
Passion Pit, Empire of the Sun to headline South Side festival
The crowded summer festival season will add a rare South Side entry Friday, when the lineup for the Mamby on the Beach festival will be announced for July 11-12 at...