Music
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Bands you shouldn't miss at Pitchfork 2011Jul 13, 2011 11:00 am - More than 40 bands will perform on three stages at the Pitchfork Music Festival this weekend. That's a ton of music to choose from, so we thought it might help to offer ...
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Punk band OFF! set to rock PitchforkJul 13, 2011 11:00 am - The Pitchfork Music Festival has become known for lineups that mix veteran acts with new up-and-comers. One of the bands playing this year's festival — the punk-rock out...
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Full Pitchfork 2011 scheduleJul 13, 2011 11:00 am - Full Pitchfork schedule Friday, July 15 3:20 p.m. — Gatekeeper (Blue Stage) 3:30 p.m. — EMA (Red Stage) 4:30 p.m. — tUnE-yArDs (Blue) 4:35 p.m. — Battles (Gree...
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Rapper Tech N9ne's success comes to fruitionJul 13, 2011 12:00 am - ATLANTA — On a phone call from jail last year, Lil Wayne told a radio show about one of the first rappers he wanted to collaborate with once he got free. It wasn't a rei...
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Sinise talks about his dedication to militaryJul 13, 2011 12:00 am - Actor headlines another concert in Wheaton
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Wheaton Band Festival creates a rainbow of soundsJul 12, 2011 1:00 am - If sound came in color, the music at this year’s Wheaton Band Festival would create a rainbow over Memorial Park. For the first time ever, five very different types of b...
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Little Feat jamming to Viper AlleyJul 11, 2011 12:00 am - In 1969, Frank Zappa encouraged guitarist Lowell George to leave the Mothers of Invention because he was too good to be a sideman and should start his own band. He did, ...
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Piano Man performs Thursday in Hoffman EstatesJul 11, 2011 12:00 am - The Hoffman Estates Arts Commission and the Hoffman Estates Park District are bringing Piano Man, a tribute artist to Elton John and Billy Joel, to perform 7 p.m. Thursd...
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Rocker accused of pharmacy robbery before showJul 10, 2011 11:00 pm - MANSFIELD, Mass. — The bass player for a rock band has been arrested and charged with robbing a Massachusetts pharmacy of prescription painkillers just hours before a sh...
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Temporary blindness leads to music careerJul 09, 2011 6:00 am - ROCKTON, Ill. — Anthony Billups sat blind and alone in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital room, a handful of CDs and a hardly-used guitar by his bedside. A former star pitcher...