We the Kings make the Warped Tour their own
We the Kings' tour bus is parked in a Scranton, Pa., lot, positioned next to a line of Warped Tour fans that stretches out of sight. Travis Clark, frontman for...
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Open Air Fest is a noisy debutante of ’90s metal
The heart of Chicago's first Open Air Festival is '90s metal: Disturbed, Korn, Slipknot, Chevelle, Marilyn Manson and Rammstein are among the headliners, which should make people who've framed their...
Waco Brothers milking their senior statesman role
Jon Langford regrets nothing about repeatedly lampooning the late David Bowie, in his defunct comic "Great Pop Things," as the "Chameleon of Rock." "He seems to have a very good...
Chris Stapleton’s success involves keeping it simple
The other night, Chris Stapleton called Dave Cobb because he missed him. "Hey, man, I'd love to just get together to play some guitar," the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter told the man...
Yeasayer’s beauty is in its restlessness
Every summer, growing up in Philadelphia, Ira Wolf Tuton moved the chairs in between musical pieces at his uncles' chamber series. Both are classical musicians, the sons of his great-grandmother,...
Carol Burnett, comedy icon, sets up shop in Chicago
The "Mary Worthless" sketch, in which Carol Burnett wears an old-lady wig and lampoons the Sunday funnies' most annoying busybody, was not as terrible as the sketch-comedy heroine recalls. It...
Dawn Richard, post Danity and Diddy, is satisfied
Singer Dawn Richard's family celebrated the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed their home and forced them to sleep in their cars, by returning to New Orleans for good....
Parquet Courts snag some strange fish in their huge net
For no apparent reason, Andrew Savage of New York's Parquet Courts keeps apologizing. "I'm running empty over here," he says, interrupting his own interview. "I had a late night last...
Film, music and even love at CIMMfest
The story Laura Bialis wanted to tell in her film "Rock In the Red Zone" was about the rich music scene in Sderot, an Israeli town close enough to the...
Wanda Sykes is everywhere
The night of the Academy Awards, Wanda Sykes boarded an 8 p.m. flight from New York to Los Angeles. Just before the doors closed, she fired up Twitter to inquire...