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Lead singer Fher Olvera and guitarist Sergio Vallin perform as part of Maná at the United Center in Chicago on April 29, 2023.

Longtime fans turn out for Maná at United Center with their México Lindo Y Querido tour

April 30, 2023 at 2:06 p.m.

Maná can be counted on for effervescent, tidily choreographed, Latinized pop-rock. If this sounds like faint praise, let us add that few bands keep such a doggedly watchful eye on...

A pine tree in an industrial park on Algonquin Road in Des Plaines has "gifts" and other items placed in and around it, from fans of 100 gecs. The band used a photo of the tree as album cover art.

Hyperpop band 100 gecs just wants to get under your skin

April 18, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

Suppose punk rock had never caught on. Suppose the existing punk luminaries had made kitschy keyboard music — hyperpop — instead. The result might have sounded like 100 gecs, a...

Young Nudy performs during Lollapalooza in Grant Park on July 31, 2022 in Chicago.

Young Nudy’s album ‘Gumbo’ makes the case for less being more, as he puts on a sold-out show in Avondale

March 15, 2023 at 7:11 a.m.

"My last meal?" Young Nudy asks in a contemplative voice, in response to the question. "It would have to be bacon, pancakes, grits and scrambled eggs with cheese. Ooh!" "I...

NAV (aka Navraj Singh Goraya) performs at the Juno Awards in London, Ontario, in 2019.

NAV in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom: His latest music shows he’s growing up

February 13, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The Indian subcontinent is experiencing hardship on a grand scale: Ethnonationalism in India, a halting recovery in monsoon-torn Pakistan and austerity in Sri Lanka. Some in the diaspora are pessimistic...

British model, actress and singer Suki Waterhouse performs at the Shaky Knees Music Festival on Oct. 23, 2021, in Atlanta.

Suki Waterhouse is coming to the Metro, bringing her brand of Brit country rock and surprising authenticity

January 19, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

The emerging queen of country rock is Suki Waterhouse, a graceful and mannerly Englishwoman with perfectly tousled blonde hair. Waterhouse's background, as one can probably deduce from the aforestated description,...

Musician Beth Orton at home in London on Aug. 18, 2022 with her vintage upright piano.

Beth Orton’s new album ‘Weather Alive’ is a sensory record: ‘I was really engaging with this idea of peace’

November 7, 2022 at 10:01 a.m.

Beth Orton's "Weather Alive" is an album bustling with firsts. Orton has been a working musician for nearly 30 years. In that time she has distinguished herself as a ruminative...

Be There for Nnamdï’s Next Stage

July 2, 2026 at 12:49 p.m.

“With a lot of my stuff, whether it be sad or angry, there’s ultimately a sense of excitement and, hopefully, joy,” says the multilingual and multidisciplinary musician Nnamdï. “The ultimate...

Get Inside the Mind of a Super Sad Black Girl

July 2, 2026 at 12:50 p.m.

Haymarket Books, the local font of socialist literature, is also, lo and behold, a publisher of Moscato-fueled existential poetry. Super Sad Black Girl (out December 13), the debut collection from...

Best ’90s Rap Revivalist

July 2, 2026 at 12:49 p.m.

Defcee The life and work of Defcee provide a study in contrasts. He’s a serial altruist, rallying his pupils to conquer the written word. (His background includes stints as a...

Best Rap&B Siren

July 2, 2026 at 12:53 p.m.

Baha Bank$ The exigencies of the moment demand a certain seriousness — unless you’re Baha Bank$, a pouty-lipped enchantress who calls herself the Queen of Chicago. Prior to 2020, Bank$ was not...

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