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Rolling Stones to play Soldier Field in support of ‘Hackney Diamonds’ album
The Rolling Stones announced they’re touring in 2024, including a stop at Chicago's Soldier Field.
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Review: In a Chicago Theatre concert, Liz Phair’s ‘Exile in Guyville’ still has the same kind of impact
Those of a certain age who lived in Chicago in the early ‘90s might find it difficult to believe her landmark debut arrived three decades ago.
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Mars Williams’ sax was everywhere, from free jazz projects to the Psychedelic Furs. Then came cancer.
A Nov. 25 benefit show at Metro will have musician colleagues from all over, including from Guns N’ Roses, the Dave Matthews Band and the Furs. Who likely won’t be there is Mars.
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Denise Jordan Walker, ‘effervescent’ radio host and publicist for Bernie Mac, dies
She was on-air personality on numerous Chicago stations, including WNUA-FM at the outset of its launch in the late 1980s as a “smooth jazz” station.
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After successful event featuring Wilco’s Kotche, Homewood group featuring visit by Susan Voelz of Poi Dog Pondering
Getting In Tune with Susan Voelz at Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve’s Senior Hall cabin builds on the success of the first event in interview series featuring Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche.
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A percussionist comes home, with tenure and a world premiere
Josh Jones is the new principal percussionist of the Grant Park Music Festival, a job that drew him home to Chicago.
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Green Day is coming to Wrigley with Smashing Pumpkins, tickets on sale Friday
The tour stop will also include The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas.
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Column: Young Chicago band Slow Pulp is having its moment, and a show at Thalia Hall
Remember this indie band's name, because its new second album "Yard" proves it's here to stay.
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Squirrel Flower’s latest album ‘Tomorrow’s Fire’ is all noise, in a good way
Some of the songs on “Tomorrow’s Fire” have a sort of quality of desperation to them, an urgency begging the listener to linger on each turn of phrase.
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Review: Brian May leads Queen + Adam Lambert in a brilliant, extravagant concert — until a strange duet
The band’s original guitarist carried the whole 130-minute concert, with singer Lambert knowing when to cede the spotlight.
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Photos: Queen in concert at the United Center
Queen, led by singer Adam Lambert, performs the first of two concerts during The Rhapsody Tour at the United Center in Chicago on Oct. 30, 2023.
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Review: Samara Joy opens Symphony Center Jazz’s 30th season: The jazz kids are alright
After an upwards-shimmying flourish in “Guess Who I Saw Today” — a Joy calling card — I wondered, honestly and without exaggeration: Is there anything her voice can’t do?
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‘Love is forever:’ Mexican musician Marco Antonio Solis talks about his bond to Chicago
A concert in Chicago is always more special, he said. The city was the place where he professed his love to his wife and asked her to marry him in June 1993.
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‘We Are Here’ concert at Salt Shed will have music from the past, played now ‘when we need it most’
“We Are Here: Songs From the Holocaust” will be a one-night-only event featuring dozens of local talents.
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Review: At CSO, Gaffigan conducts Gershwin and Bernstein. Who says classical music can’t be fun?
Run, don’t walk, to this weekend’s Chicago Symphony concerts, conducted by James Gaffigan. Intermission was a parade of giddy smiles. I’m still wearing mine.
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‘The Music Critic’ with John Malkovich is coming to the Chicago Theatre. He insists the show is not his way of getting revenge.
At a time when the ranks of professional critics have shrunk to just a few, the show's creators insist it’s a love letter to a dying profession.
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Review: In his Salt Shed concert, Thundercat shared more than just wonderful songs
There’s no reason for Thundercat to be as charming and affable as he is.
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Review: At CSO, a gifted baritone but a giftless Beethoven 5
On paper, anyway, this weekend’s cycle has some big draws including German baritone Christian Gerhaher, who seldom performs in the U.S.
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James ‘Tail Dragger’ Jones, Chicago blues singer remembered as a ‘true original,’ dies at 82
James "Tail Dragger" Jones was a Chicago blues singer who gave raw performances at clubs around the city for decades.
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Rudolph Isley, founding member of Isley Brothers and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, dies at 84
Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady” and “It’s Your Thing,” has died at age 84.