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Jeff Tweedy leads Wilco at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago on Friday, December 5, 2014.

Pitchfork lineup: Wilco, Sleater-Kinney and Chance the Rapper to headline

June 28, 2019 at 5:37 p.m.

The Pitchfork Music Festival is celebrating its 10th year July 17-19 in Union Park with a loaded lineup, headlined by Wilco, Chance the Rapper and Sleater-Kinney. The lineup announced Friday...

Carlene Carter re-embraces family legacy

May 13, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

Famous parents can sometimes create a legacy so towering that their children are never able to forge an identity of their own. But Carlene Carter was never daunted by the...

Kim Gordon reflects on Sonic Youth, her breakup with Thurston Moore, Billy Corgan and more in her memoir, "Girl in a Band."

Kim Gordon on her new memoir, ‘Girl in a Band’

May 9, 2019 at 5:10 p.m.

Kim Gordon is a founding member of Sonic Youth, visual artist, feminist icon, mother and fashion trendsetter. Now she can now add "memoirist" to her list of accomplishments. Her new...

Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the Civil Tights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Civil-rights soundtrack still on freedom highway

May 13, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

In the midst of the stirring "Glory," the musical centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated movie "Selma," South Side rapper Common delivers a terse summation of how words, melody and a protest...

AC/DC to play Wrigley Field in September

June 16, 2018 at 1:12 a.m.

AC/DC – the bend but don't break hard-rock band -- will bring its first tour since 2008-10 to Wrigley Field on Sept. 15. Tickets go on sale Monday, February 16...

Miranda Lambert accepts the award for best country album for "Platinum" at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles.

Sam Smith wins 4 Grammys, Beck takes home album of the year

June 16, 2018 at 1:57 a.m.

On a Grammy night heavy on nostalgia and generally lacking in surprise, Beck bested heavily favored artists such as Beyonce and Sam Smith for album of the year. The 57th...

Father John Misty uncorks a belter with ‘Honeybear’

May 13, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

When the songwriter J. Tillman decided he didn't want to write sad, slow, self-serious songs anymore, he morphed into the fancifully named Father John Misty. After a few years as...

Urban contemporary album, R&B song, rap/sung collaboration

Grammys and British soul invasion meet again

April 5, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

The sound of U.K. soul music has moved into a penthouse atop the U.S. pop charts for most of the last decade, with new occupants slipping into the plush guest...

British soul singer Sam Smith poses for a portrait, in New York.

Grammy Awards predictions

April 5, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

At the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday (7 p.m. on CBS), the Recording Academy will hand out the most prestigious of its awards in 82 categories. Each year Tribune...

How Jason Narducy got reinspired, with a little help from his A-list friends

May 13, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

Jason Narducy once played in an Evanston band with a bunch of pre-teen friends that directly inspired a 13-year-old Dave Grohl. Later he cofounded Verbow and made a major-label album...

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