Music
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Concerts Dec. 6-12: Mavis Staples, Pentatonix, Andrea Bocelli, Smashing PumpkinsDec 03, 2024 8:41 am - Upcoming concerts this week include Mavis Staples’ 85th Hometown Birthday Celebration, Pentatonix’s “Hallelujah! It’s A Christmas Tour,” Twisted Xmas with The Smashing Pumpkins, Andrea Bocelli and more.
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Kendrick Lamar tops Apple Music’s 2024 song chart and women make history
Dec 03, 2024 7:57 am - “Not Like Us,” but people sure like him: Kendrick Lamar’s smash topped Apple Music’s global song chart in 2024 as the giant music streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes.
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What to stream: Sabrina Carpenter holiday special, ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ and Rosé goes solo
Dec 02, 2024 5:30 am - Sabrina Carpenter hosting a holiday variety music special on Netflix and Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw playing a spy and an assassin in the TV series “Black Doves" are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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Former My Chemical Romance drummer Bob Bryar dies at age 44
Dec 01, 2024 1:37 pm - Bob Bryar, a former drummer with My Chemical Romance who played on the band’s career-defining rock opera, “The Black Parade,” has died, according to the band. He was 44. ...
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Our Saviour’s Lutheran in Naperville to host Christmas cantata Dec. 8Nov 29, 2024 4:17 pm - Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Naperville will celebrate the season with a Christmas cantata on Sunday, Dec. 8.
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Yacht rock gets celebrated — smoothly, of course — in new documentary
Nov 29, 2024 10:38 am - Time to relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock. The late-’70s songs of Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross take center stage Friday in the Max doc “Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary.”
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Intimate documentary captures the Beatles goofing around as they take America by storm in 1964
Nov 27, 2024 11:05 am - Likely most people have seen iconic footage of the Beatles performing on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” But how many have seen Paul McCartney during that same U.S. trip feeding seagulls off his hotel balcony? That moment is part of the Disney+ documentary "Beatles ’64" streaming Friday, Nov. 29.
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DuPage Chorale presents ‘A Festival of Music with Brass and Organ’ Dec. 8Nov 26, 2024 10:55 pm - DuPage Chorale welcomes guest organist Stephen Uhl to the stage with a varied program of music for choir with organ and brass on Sunday, Dec. 8.
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Join in Christmas sing-along at Northwest Choral Society’s Dec. 15 concertNov 26, 2024 1:13 pm - The audience attending the Northwest Choral Society’s Dec. 15 concert will easily slide into the Christmas spirit when they join the chorus in the six-carol rendition of Randol Alan Bass’ “Sing We Now of Christmas.”
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St. Charles church to host ‘Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols’Nov 26, 2024 11:43 am - On Sunday, Dec. 8, St. Charles Episcopal Church celebrates the Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols, featuring the parish choir and instrumentalists.