The past 365 days have made a year of surprise hits in album releases (who would have guessed Carly Rae Jepsen would be so loved) and disappointments (where’s the new music, Frank Ocean?). These are...

React Presents announced a massive lineup for its highly anticipated inaugural New Year's Eve celebration Reaction NYE. The two-night event will transform the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont,...

Two of Chicago's nonprofits that help the arts worked together recently in support of a Chicago band, Van Go Go, a collaborative of musicians with and without developmental disabilities, who is part...

Lollapalooza announced today that its 25th Chicago festival will span four days, not three, in Grant Park. The 2016 festival will include more than 170 musical acts.  “It’s our 25th anniversary...

Chicago built Taylor Bennett, and now he’s ready to give back. Bennett evokes the kind of love and creativity that Chicago’s youth is simultaneously bursting with and craving. He’s currently...

Even though Heathcliff Berru didn’t graduate from DePaul, his experience there certainly played a role in finding his niche in the competitive, vibrant world of working in the music industry. Berru,...

The holidays can be a lonely time. No girlfriend or significant other? Check. Super tired of the miserable weather? Check.  The holidays can be especially lonely if you’re also away from home. But...

Indoor or outdoor, dive bars or ballrooms, thousands of people every night make their way to one of Chicago’s numerous music venues every night.  While most people won’t attend a concert specifically...

For many, the high school days of playing in a garage band have been long abandoned — but not for Zachary Roth, Christian Flannery and Steven Lobkovich. The three have an interest in blues-based...

Twenty years ago, some DePaul students were still a glint in their parents’ eyes. Most of the rest of us were hardly able to talk, let alone form actual opinions about music. It would have been great...

Coming off of the release of "To Pimp a Butterfly" earlier this year, Kendrick Lamar performed at the Riviera Theatre Nov. 5. Photos by Josh Leff. [aesop_gallery id="17451"]

Nothing about Jimmy Whisper’s headlining show fit together at Lincoln Hall. The small theater was home to the strangest assortment of groups performing together — but that’s not to say that it...