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FKA Twigs danced past her past into a new sound

May 13, 2019 at 2:18 p.m.

After two drowsy EPs, FKA Twigs arrived this year with her first full-length album, "LP1" (Young Turks), an immersive shadow world of eerie soundscapes, disruptive noise and insinuating melody. It...

Neil Young performs at the Chicago Theatre.

Neil Young songs drown in a sea of strings, horns

April 5, 2019 at 8:56 p.m.

Neil Young's brilliant if confounding career has a messy inconsistency, brimming with genius but also toss-offs, digressions and disasters. A few would-be duds ("On the Beach," "Trans") proved their value...

Interpol reboots after career crossroads

June 17, 2018 at 4:59 a.m.

Interpol recently released one of its most accomplished albums, "El Pintor" (Matador), its first in four years. But founding guitarist Daniel Kessler says he had no idea what to expect...

Future of Music Summit 2014 and the issue ‘that’s much bigger than music’

June 17, 2018 at 5:09 a.m.

"This issue is much bigger than music, it's about a free society," said Jesse Elliott, sounding more like a social economist than a guitarist in a rock band. "There are...

Future of Music Day 2: How to get paid — or not

June 18, 2018 at 7:26 a.m.

Superficially at least, everything has changed about the music industry. Artists now have dozens of potential revenue streams instead of two or three. Digital is shoving aside physical product. And...

Damian Kulash, lead singer of Ok Go, performing at Metro in 2010.

Future of Music 2014: There is no one business model, and that’s not a bad thing

June 17, 2018 at 5:08 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Transparency, that elusive virtue, was a hot item Monday at the Future of Music Policy Summit. In a music industry that has been tilting into chaos since...

Future of Music 2014: Does recorded music still have a chance?

June 17, 2018 at 5:20 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The promise and disappointments of the music business started wrestling from the get-go Monday as the 14th annual Future of Music Policy Summit got rolling.With the business...

Yusuf channels blues roots of Cat Stevens

May 13, 2019 at 2:18 p.m.

Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is back at age 66, and all indications are that he is not going gently into that good night of a late-career comeback....

Patti Smith on literary heroes, role models and Sinatra

June 29, 2019 at 10:22 p.m.

Patti Smith was born in Chicago during a snowstorm in 1946. Saturday she returns to the city of her birth to receive the 2014 baiduhai Literary Award, only weeks...

Reflecting on Patti Smith, winner of the 2014 Tribune Literary Prize

June 30, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

It was 1975 and I was a college freshman when Patti Smith's first album, "Horses," arrived in a Milwaukee record store. I didn't know anything about her music, hadn't heard...

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