Leaving a band is never an easy decision, but some albums are the breaking point when artists couldn't take it any more. Read ...

If you'd told the young Jonathan 'MC Bliss' Notley, Max 'Eso' MacKinnon, and Tarik 'DJ Izm' Ejjamai their teenage rap obsession would keep them employed into their mid-40s, chances are they'd scoff at ...

Mademoiselle Nobs was actually the Meddle song Seamus, which originally featured Humble Pie guitarist/vocalist Steve Marriott’s pet collie howling along to a slow blues, but now with an Afghan hound ...

Music, poetry, community vibes. Sign up at 5:30 p.m. Scoop ice cream, $4 beers, Sissy's Food Truck. Start the day smarter.

A powerful nostalgia hits whenever I hear the ruckus my young neighbors are making in the basement with their band.

It must be a strange feeling for Billy Gibbons to have to celebrate 50 years of ZZ Top on tour without his co-founders and best friends Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. The good news is that Gibbons is ...

Chicago rock band Lifeguard talk about the creative breakthroughs behind their debut album for Matador, 'Ripped and Torn,' their summer tour, and more ...

Across their four studio albums, Wet invites listeners into a soulful dream world, and last month’s Two Lives is her most ...

The album, “Andalusia,” was recorded in an off-the-grid cabin in Andalusia Township, retrofitted with recording equipment and ...

Ticket presales begin Thursday, May 8 at 10 a.m. local time, followed by the general on-sale starting Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m ...

Between my wild redneck family and the friends I keep, there is no shortage of tall tales, erratic emotions, and hard-learned ...

Chicago Reader staff writer Micco Caporale (they/them) is an award-winning journalist and Korn-fed midwesterner bouncing ...