Music and Concerts – Page 89

Naked Raygun’s Jeff Pezzati, left, and Eric Spicer speak on a panel commemorating new record pressings at the Smashed Plastic record plant in Belmont Gardens on Oct. 10, 2026. (Arthur Maiorella/baiduhai)

Tale of the tapes: Naked Raygun and Eleventh Dream Day create new albums from an essential Chicago archive

By Kevin McKeough

October 14, 2026 at 5:40 a.m.

A 1985 Naked Raygun show has become a limited-edition vinyl album.

FILE – Duane Davis, right, and his attorney Michael Sanft sit in a courtroom, after a jury found Davis guilty of first-degree murder in his trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center on Aug. 31, 2026, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool)

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis gets 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

By Jessica Hill

October 13, 2026 at 3:42 p.m.

An aging ex-gang leader was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for...

Olivia Rodrigo performs at the United Center on Oct. 11, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Review: Olivia Rodrigo, in a sea of flowers, kicking her way towards what’s next

By Christopher Borrelli

October 12, 2026 at 10:38 a.m.

In Chicago at the United Center on her "Unraveled Tour," Olivia Rodrigo leans into the...

Aziz Ansari at "SNL50: The Anniversary Special" on Feb. 16, 2025, in New York City. (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)

What to do in Chicago: Disturbed, Aziz Ansari and an early St. Patrick’s Day performance

By Jennifer Day

March 7, 2025 at 2:34 p.m.

Also around the area this weekend, Rita Rudner in Skokie and a "Magic School Bus"...

Audience members take their seats in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2024, before a concert conducted by music director emeritus Riccardo Muti. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

CSO’s 2025-26 season sees Mäkelä and Muti split duties — plus our short list of unmissables

By Hannah Edgar

March 5, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.

It’s hard to believe, for all the hubbub around Klaus Mäkelä’s hiring as the 11th...

Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating the Kansas statewide expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Overland Park, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, dies at 82

By Maria Sherman

March 3, 2025 at 6:40 p.m.

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. He...

Regina Spektor performs at Thalia Hall, March 2, 2025, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: A still indie Regina Spektor revisits her album ‘Songs’ at Thalia Hall

By Bob Gendron

March 3, 2025 at 2:46 p.m.

Could the concert have benefited from better preparation? Probably, but her genuine spontaneity in playing...

Soloist Seong-Jin Cho and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Symphony Center on March 1, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: At the CSO, a star pianist and equally luminous Sibelius

By Hannah Edgar

March 2, 2025 at 12:47 p.m.

Word to the wise: If conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali is on the podium, don’t leave during...

FILE – Buster Poindexter is seen at the Grammy Awards in New York’s Radio City Music Hall, March 2, 1988. (AP Photo, File)

David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75

By Mark Kennedy

March 1, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk...

FILE – Angie Stone poses as she walks down the red carpet during the 2009 Soul Train Awards taping at the Georgia World Congress Center, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gregory Smith, File)

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone dies in car crash

By Associated Press

March 1, 2025 at 3:47 p.m.

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and...

City Voices, a chamber chorus led by William Chin, will perform “Songs of Ourselves” at First United Church of Oak Park on March 8. (City Voices)

Vocal groups set to explore America’s heritage in March concerts in Oak Park

By Myrna Petlicki

February 28, 2025 at 3:03 p.m.

Vocal groups City Voices and The Oriana Singers will perform four concerts in March in...

Claudia Hommel, left, and Elizabeth Doyle perform in 2017 in Oak Park. Both are involved in this year's 4th annual International Women’s Day Concert coming up in Oak Park. (Claudia Hommel)

Concert in Oak Park focuses on ‘women’s stories that need to be told’

By Myrna Petlicki

February 25, 2025 at 1:50 p.m.

The 4th annual International Women’s Day Concert in Oak Park features women performing the songs...

Deadmau5 performs at the Aragon Ballroom on Oct. 22, 2011, in Chicago. (Joel Wintermantle / baiduhai)

North Coast Music Festival announces headliners for 2025, including a return for deadmau5

By Doug George

February 25, 2025 at 12:57 p.m.

North Coast Music Festival has announced the first of its lineup for summer 2025, including...