Music
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For a couple of years, Beach Boy Brian Wilson called St. Charles homeJun 11, 2025 3:25 pm - Legendary Beach Boys leader and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, spent some time in Illinois, living in a five-bedroom St. Charles home with a custom-built basement recording studio.
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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer’s poet laureate, dies at 82
Jun 11, 2025 11:59 am - Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.
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Fox Chamber Singers join gospel choir in ‘Unexpected Beauty’ concertJun 10, 2025 11:19 pm - The Fox Chamber Singers will be joined by The Assembly, a gospel choir, for a concert titled "Unexpected Beauty" on June 21. It will feature classical choral music and traditional gospel, with both choirs performing separately and together.
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Concerts June 13-19: Counting Crows, Halsey, James Taylor, The Black Crowes and moreJun 10, 2025 4:26 pm - Upcoming concerts this week include Counting Crows, Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’, Halsey, The Black Crowes, Natalia Lafourcade, James Taylor and His All-Star Band, Kurt Elling and more.
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Police recover a stolen custom-built Telecaster guitar that belongs to Heart’s Nancy WilsonJun 10, 2025 2:48 pm - Police in Atlantic City said Tuesday that they retrieved one of the two irreplaceable instruments owned by members of the rock band Heart that were stolen from a venue in the New Jersey city two weeks ago as the group prepared to launch a nationwide tour.
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Things to do June 13-19: Libertyville Days, Scottish Festival & Highland Games, Taste of Des Plaines and moreJun 10, 2025 9:38 am - Mark your calendar for Libertyville Days, Taste of Des Plaines, Jazz and Wine Festival at Cantigny, the Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Antioch Wizards Weekend Day, Downers Grove Rotary GroveFest, Swedish Days and more happening this week.
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Niko Kapetan of Friko curates local indie rock lineup for Santa for a Day benefit at SPACEJun 09, 2025 6:05 pm - Rising indie star Niko Kapetan brings fellow Chicago musicians Jason Narducy, Neptune's Core, and Chaepter together for the Santa for a Day charity's Christmas in July benefit concert in Evanston on July 10.
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Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
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Book Review: ‘Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil’ doesn’t live up to book’s promise
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West Point Band composer headlines Wheaton Municipal Band’s season openerJun 09, 2025 10:32 am - Wheaton Municipal Band's June 12 summer kickoff concert will honor the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, featuring West Point composer Sgt. Noah Taylor and musicians from Wheaton middle schools.