Music
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Music review: Neil Young delivers appropriately ragged, raw live version of 1990’s ‘Ragged Glory’
Apr 23, 2024 3:00 pm - The venerable Neil Young offers a ragged and raw live take of his beloved 1990 album “Ragged Glory” with a new album.
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Still rocking: After 4 decades in music and major vocal surgery, Jon Bon Jovi remains optimistic
Apr 23, 2024 12:21 pm - This year has been a turning point for Jon Bon Jovi. In February, he performed for an audience for the first time since his major vocal surgery. The band's next album, “Forever,” hits stores June 7, and the four-part “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story" debuts Friday, April 26, on Hulu.
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Best Bets: Meet and greet fan favorites at C2E2 this weekendApr 23, 2024 12:13 pm - The pop culture convention C2E2, featuring film, TV and wrestling celebrities, comic artists, anime and video game creators takes over McCormick Place, and Chaka Khan and El DeBarge join Frankie Beverley for his farewell tour at the United Center.
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Drummer Carl Allen joins DuPage Community Jazz Ensemble May 2Apr 22, 2024 10:36 pm - The DuPage Community Jazz Ensemble will perform its spring concert, “The Heart of the Groove,” with renowned jazz drummer Carl Allen Allen, an accomplished musician, ha...
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Elgin Symphony Orchestra offers free Listener's Club events in Barrington and ElginApr 22, 2024 5:10 pm - Robbie Herbst, assistant principal second violin with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, will discuss the upcoming concerts celebrating the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Sy...
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What to stream this week: A Bon Jovi documentary, Idris Elba in ‘Knuckles’ and ‘Anyone But You’
Apr 22, 2024 3:02 pm - The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell romantic comedy “Anyone But You” hitting Netflix and everyone’s favorite dancing demon doll “M3GAN” returning to Peacock are some of the new movies, television, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall
Apr 22, 2024 2:12 pm - Mary J. Blige, Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist Peter Frampton.
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‘Best job I’ve had, bar none’: Wheaton record store marks a decade of vinyl revivalApr 22, 2024 11:28 am - As an impressionable boy, Mike Paeth surveyed his parents’ record albums displayed on either side of the all-in-one stereo system. “Literally, everything changed with Rush,” he said. Yep, Paeth had realized free will as an audiophile. His tastes, and those of his customers, continue to evolve at his store, Mile Long Records, in Wheaton.
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Conductor Andrew Davis, who headed Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on 3 continents, dies
Apr 21, 2024 1:30 pm - Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died. He was 80.
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Hey Nonny welcomes Japanese Guitarist Hiroya TsukamotoApr 19, 2024 9:38 am - Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto takes the stage at Hey Nonny at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3.