Music
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Taylor Swift's 'Mean' nets a CMA nominationNov 08, 2011 5:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Taylor Swift turned a negative into a positive, and it has netted her a special nomination at this year's Country Music Association Awards. Swift rece...
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Music notes: Viper Alley hosts Rusted RootNov 08, 2011 5:00 am - Root's music Pittsburgh-based band Rusted Root, known for adding African and Latin rhythms to traditional rock music, will perform this weekend at an intimate club show...
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HOTT Productions’ ‘Swing!’ on stage in SchaumburgNov 07, 2011 11:00 pm - With all of the worries and uncertainty in the world, members of a Schaumburg-based theater company know this much: “It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing!” ...
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Gaga, Bieber snare top MTV awardsNov 07, 2011 10:00 am - LONDON — Justin Bieber was named the best male act at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast Sunday night, joining Lady Gaga, who won for best female, at the top of the ...
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Scores of suburbanites audition for spot on 'The Glee Project'Nov 06, 2011 11:00 pm - It would be tough to find a more passionate fan of the musical-comedy television show “Glee” than Eduardo Marquez of Des Plaines. Marquez, a 19-year-old Maine West High ...
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Sting, pure and simple, at Rosemont TheatreNov 05, 2011 12:00 am - There were no former bandmates from back in the day. No symphony orchestras. No theatrics. No distractions. It was Sting distilled. Playing a one-night show at the Rosem...
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Vince Gill bucking music's youth trendNov 01, 2011 11:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vince Gill thinks "Guitar Slinger" is his best album, and that's saying something. Yet he figures the average country fan won't hear it. That listene...
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Lambert blazes her own trail on new CDNov 01, 2011 6:00 am - Miranda Lambert, “Four the Record” (RCA Nashville) Six years after Miranda Lambert torched a new path for country music with her debut album, “Kerosene,” she contin...
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Rising star Miranda Lambert reveals more on 'Four'Nov 01, 2011 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Producer Frank Liddell compares most country music stars to drivers in Manhattan. They circle and circle until they find a parking spot, and once they...
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N. Barrington rocker-turned-author embraces his dark sideNov 01, 2011 12:00 am - Jeremy Wagner guesses he has a “dark seed.” As a kid, he was drawn to the horror novels of Stephen King. And when Wagner was in his teens and 20s, his love of the dark s...