Mumford & Sons to play at Montrose Beach on June 17
Mumford & Sons, a band with a penchant for playing nontraditional concert venues, announced a tour Monday that will include a show June 17 at Cricket Hill at Montrose Beach...
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Chance the Rapper’s grand plan to unite ‘young creatives’
On a brutally cold late winter afternoon, an open-mic event at the Chicago Cultural Center was packing them in. More than 250 high school students lined up to enter the...
Grateful Dead add 2 California concerts
It turns out the Grateful Dead's three sold-out 50th anniversary concerts at Soldier Field July 3-5 aren't the only shows the reunited band will play this year. On Friday, the...
Lightning Bolt has power behind that mask
Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale looks like he just walked off the set of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" when he jumps on stage to pummel the drums while wearing a mask....
Electric Wizard at Metro: ‘Fanatics’ welcome to Sabbath party
Electric Wizard doesn't tour the U.S. that often, which turned the British doom-metal quartet's appearance Tuesday at a sold-out Metro into something of an event for a certain highly specific...
Waxahatchee’s ‘Ivy Tripp’ mixes anxiety and hope
Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield writes about the in-between moments. Her characters are moving out of relationships and drifting. The future is open-ended and full of question marks, but amid the anxiety...
Father John Misty gets serious … somewhat
The creation myth of Father John Misty is well-known to his followers. The singer-songwriter known as J. Tillman (aka Josh Tillman) ate mushrooms, climbed naked into a tree and had...
Death Cab for Cutie finds austere beauty in a breakup
There's no escaping the backdrop of Death Cab for Cutie's eighth studio album, "Kintsugi" (Atlantic). No names are named, but the breakup of singer Ben Gibbard's marriage with actress Zooey...
Decemberists find new joy in a ‘Terrible World’
When Colin Meloy and his bandmates in the Decemberists took a break in 2011, the agenda was open-ended. The band's steady growth had paid off in a new commercial peak...
Courtney Barnett album just an everyday triumph
After releasing a combo platter of her two EP's last year that included witty indie hits such as "Avant Gardener," Courtney Barnett's first proper studio album arrives with expectations to...