Music
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Depeche Mode hopes its new CD gets 'people to think a bit'
Mar 16, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Depeche Mode's new album kicks off with a dire warning that we're going backward as a society. Things go quickly downhill from there. "Spirit" then tells...
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Colombian rocker Juanes writes 1st English song
Mar 15, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - With the help of hitmaking songwriter-producer PooBear, Colombian rock star Juanes wrote "Goodbye For Now," his first song in English. The song is part o...
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Music Review: Adult. make dance music for nervous breakdowns
Mar 15, 2017 7:00 am - Adult., "Detroit House Guests" (Mute Records) Adult. - the husband-and-wife team of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller - have gained a level of reverence among the notor...
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Folk singer Elaine Romanelli to perform Sunday at Tree of Life UUMar 15, 2017 1:00 am - Singer Elaine Romanelli has been generating a lot of buzz in indie folk music circles. Chicago's WFMT host Rich Warren said she "shines like a supernova … Utterly haunti...
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John Mellencamp, Stevie Nicks, Common coming to Ravinia this summerMar 15, 2017 12:01 am - Stevie Nicks, Common and John Mellencamp are just a few of the 59 artists making their Ravinia Festival debuts this summer. The historic Highland Park venue announced i...
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Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris, Jon Pardi earn ACM Awards
Mar 14, 2017 7:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Jon Pardi are early winners at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards. The ACMs announced on Tuesday the ...
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Music Review: Plenty of clever twists from Peter Mulvey
Mar 14, 2017 7:00 am - Peter Mulvey, "Are You Listening?" (Righteous Babe Records) Peter Mulvey is fond of alternate guitar tunings, and alternate sequencing. On his 17th and latest album, "Th...
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Review: Spoon's 'Hot Thoughts' is raw, sinewy, danceable
Mar 14, 2017 7:00 am - Spoon, "Hot Thoughts" (Matador Records) Spoon's "Hot Thoughts" is raw, sinewy and often danceable, the band charging into its ninth album with a cruder and more experime...
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Rocker Gregg Allman cancels all tour dates for the year
Mar 14, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Gregg Allman has canceled all of his scheduled tour dates for the year. The 69-year-old rocker posted Monday on his website that "it has been determined ...
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Music notes: Spend St. Pat's Day with Blake Shelton at Rosemont's AllstateMar 14, 2017 6:00 am - Blake 'Round Here Oklahoma-born superstar Blake Shelton is known as much for his down-home TV persona on the “The Voice” as he is for his party-country rock. Spend your ...