Music
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Unicycle Loves You: Big ideas meet the skill to deliverAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Unicycle Loves You, "Unicycle Loves You" (Highwheel) The debut album by Chicago's Unicycle Loves You opens with clattering percussion, backward keyboard sounds and wordl...
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Beyonce's lil sis carves her niche
Aug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the past five years, Solange Knowles has gone through some serious changes. After releasing her lackluster debut CD "Solo Star," she got married at 17, gave birth, ...
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Blue Mountain's back
Aug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - JACKSON, Miss. - For seminal alt-country band Blue Mountain - torn apart by divorce - breaking up was hard to do. Getting back together, it turned out, was pretty easy. ...
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Los Campesinos! finds its dynamicAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the more entertaining bands on Arts & Crafts who aren't Broken Social Scene, Los Campesinos! have unleashed a fun, dancey monster of an album with "Hold On Now, Y...
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Ravinia celebrates all things LincolnAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the Ravinia Festival's most well-received recent innovations is its free "family fun day," and this summer's all-day event, set for Sept. 7, will offer a glimpse ...
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Beach Boys' Brian Wilson sunny about new album
Aug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Brian Wilson sits on a plush couch in his living room, smiling nervously. On the Beach Boys visionary's back porch, his family's 15 pooches yip a...
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Register voters, get free music
Aug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Sheryl Crow is giving away free music -- a tactic she calls the "Tupperware" party approach to inspiring young people to vote. The Grammy Award-winning si...
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Where you can celebrate the last days of summerAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Back-to-school ads. Labor Day sales. Football on TV. Earlier sunsets and nights below 60 degrees. It's overrrr! Stop panicking. Shut out those visions of snow shoveling...
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Tub Ring: Accessible but still avant-gardeAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - After four albums, Tub Ring is still out there searching for signs of intelligent life. The band formed in the suburbs in 1992 and spent the '90s unleashing a number of ...
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Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore diesAug 19, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES _ Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from ...