Local dance party The Grind has turned 2 and is bigger than ever
In the last few years, dance party promoter Daniel Demchuk has gone from radio DJ to running one of the best dance parties in town, The...
Get the full story >>World Music Festival: A great soiree sweeps into Chicago
Now that we've endured the dreadful acoustics, poor production values, droning emcees and unacceptable sound-bleed among stages during the...
Get the full story >>Onion's AV Fest takes charming trip back to the 90s
There wasn't a unifying musical style per se at the first A.V. Fest, thrown by The Onion's A.V. Club entertainment section, but it did...
Get the full story >>Manu Chao sets down an exuberant groove
Manu Chao stuck to the basics during the international star's performance for an ecstatic, near-capacity crowd at the Congress Theatre...
Get the full story >>Passion's in the mantra, music at Lyric sampler
It's a new era and a whole new ballgame at Lyric Opera of Chicago. And passion is Lyric's big pitch.
Get the full story >>Haymarket Opera Company makes stylish debut with Handel rarity
Many opera-goers know Handel's delightful pastoral, "Acis and Galatea," composed for an outdoor performance in England in 1718. But how many...
Get the full story >>Alison Krauss, Union Station show off genius measured with restraint
It was an exquisite marriage when Alison Krauss took the stage Friday night at the Chicago Theatre. Both artist and venue are class acts:...
Get the full story >>Now, Lady Antebellum's just showing off
When it comes to multiplatinum country-pop, it's little surprise that Lady Antebellum sits in the catbird seat just behind Taylor Swift....
Get the full story >>Honoring 9/11 in an unexpected way: via cabaret
Of all the 9/11 tributes that will be held this weekend, one of the more unusual will feature some of the best cabaret artists in the city.
Get the full story >>Janis Ian still makes people uneasy
Janis Ian's 2008 autobiography, "Society's Child," opens with the 15-year-old singer performing her hit song of the same name in Encino,...
Get the full story >>Cloudbirds are flying on their own
After The M's announced a "long hiatus" in 2009, guitarists Joey King and Josh Chicoine weren't immediately interested in starting another...
Get the full story >>Dan Tyminski a man of constant sorrow? Hardly
It has been 10 years since "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" came along and upended the life of Dan Tyminski, then as now a guitarist and...
Get the full story >>The final bows
When you're following in the footsteps of greatness, it makes sense to end up in the Musikverein, where Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler...
Get the full story >>A.V. Club doing its own street festival too
Quick, which do Chicagoans need less?
Get the full story >>Chicago Jazz Festival opens with a bang
If the rest of the 33d annual Chicago Jazz Festival proceeds as auspiciously as Thursday's opening night, we're going to have a memorable...
Get the full story >>Re-invent the Chicago Jazz Festival -- ASAP
Since he was elected mayor, Rahm Emanuel has announced plans to lay off 625 city employees unless their unions agree to work-rule changes,...
Get the full story >>North Coast fest combines good vibes from stage and crowd
In its second year, the three-day North Coast Music Festival brought an estimated 50,000 people to Union Park over Labor Day Weekend,...
Get the full story >>A rare return by a towering Polish pianist
The last time the great Polish pianist Adam Makowicz played Chicago, he recalls, personal computers were new, the Internet was marginal...
Get the full story >>David Sanchez caps a festival of hits and misses
If there's a mainstream tenor saxophonist under 50 who can create more thrilling, ingeniously constructed solos than David Sanchez, let...
Get the full story >>Don Cornelius: The man behind 'hippest trip in America'
Expect Millennium Park to feel like a time warp back to the 1970s when the "Soul Train" 40th anniversary concert rolls in on Labor Day.
Get the full story >>Orbert Davis triumphs at Jazz Fest – despite distractions
It was Chicagoan Orbert Davis' night.
Get the full story >>Through it all, Blind Melon survives
Blind Melon's original lead singer Shannon Hoon died of a drug overdose in 1995, when he was 28. The band's remaining members struggled...
Get the full story >>For Colbie Caillat, fame a walk on the beach
Being the daughter of Fleetwood Mac's producer, Colbie Caillat spent her childhood hobnobbing with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham,...
Get the full story >>Stay Smooth rocks on water
When you think of dance parties, you think of club music — maybe hip-hop hits or house music with thunderous bass resounding through a...
Get the full story >>Ira Sullivan celebrates his 80th at the Jazz Showcase
You don't have to be an octogenarian to be a great jazz musician, but it sure seems to help.
Get the full story >>Chicago bluesman 'Honeyboy' Edwards dead at 96
He was the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta...
Get the full story >>Aleks Tomaszewska slows down, finds Magic Key to a new sound
Aleks Tomaszewska has always been a band leader — in her previous duo, Aleks and the Drummer, and in her new, more elastic ensemble,...
Get the full story >>At sold-out Metro, Braid weaves through its emo history
"This next song we probably haven't played live since 1996," said Braid's Chris Broach before they launched into "Do You Love Coffee" at...
Get the full story >>Tony Bennett soars at 85
There wasn't a blade of grass to be seen Friday night at the Ravinia Festival, where a capacity audience covered the lawn and packed the...
Get the full story >>For Cisco, next chapter not yet written
If you were to make a list of the reasons you might have heard of Shwayze singer Cisco Adler, it would probably look like this:
Get the full story >>It's back to the future for Hold Steady
"It's good to be back in a bar band," declared Hold Steady singer/guitarist Craig Finn on multiple occasions Thursday at a sold-out Metro....
Get the full story >>Beneath Kesha's glam party pop, some troubling messages
"There are three pairs of panties onstage and I just swallowed a ... ton of glitter ... You guys are ready to party!" Kesha exclaimed at her...
Get the full story >>Classical Corner
Juilliard String Quartet: The flagship American foursome has undergone numerous personnel changes in recent years but has retained...
Get the full story >>Concert review: For Kid Rock, the simpler '70s rule
The calendar says 2011, but for Kid Rock, it's forever the 1970s. Friday at a nearly packed First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, the Detroit...
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John von Rhein
Classical recording is alive and well – just ask Chicago musicians - September 14, 2011