With Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s growing profile, the band has quickly ascended, capitalizing on a curious interest in their retro-rock sound that coos like the newborn baby of New Order, The Killers, ...

In this list of the most famous one-hit wonders, Stacker has rounded up iconic single-hit musicians over the past 50-plus ...

In groups big and small, AACM reedist Ed Wilkerson has combined the joyous immediacy of early jazz with the daring collisions of the avant-garde.

For those of us who keep a foot firmly in the past, how fortunate to find John Ballantyne and Gus Noble, a couple of guys from Scotland, who are in the buoyant business of traveling back more than 50 ...

Gingerbee represent the creative potential of bedroom skramz. Chicago solo project Your Arms Are My Cocoon (YAAMC) pioneered this fiercely underground subgenre—a ...

Li’l Friday features dozens of ways for people to enjoy the weekend via theater, music, art, culinary happenings and more.

Chicago is what I am,” John Hughes once said of his hometown, the centerpiece around the late director and screenwriter’s movies and the base of his trifecta of ’80s films—Sixteen Candles, The ...

After the Lollapalooza lineup dropped, festival watchers are already looking to Austin. Here are the artists who could make the jump from Chicago to Austin City Limits.

“Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke ...

He’s been guesting at politically charged shows with his fellow Libertyville musician and pal Tom Morello and shared a stage with his longtime idol, Bruce Springsteen, after The Boss’ release of ...

"It's not a whitewash... and we don't try and hide anything" ...