When this year’s Grammy nominations came out last week, one of the big surprises was that Marilyn Manson was nominated twice. Manson has been nominated for Grammys before, but over the past year, a number of women have come forward to accuse Manson of assault and sexual abuse — a horrifying pattern of behavior that seems to g...

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Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds/Grinderman bandmate Warren Ellis released their superb Carnage album in the waning days of this past winter, and next spring they’ll support it with a tour of North America. Cave and Ellis just announced 17 dates across the US and Canada running from March 1 to April 3. They’ll do four nights in Ne...

The Phil Collins-led incarnation of Genesis finally kicked off their long-teased reunion tour in September. And last night, they kicked off the North American leg of The Last Domino? Tour, playing their first US concert in 14 years at the United Center in Chicago. Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks, rounded out by longtime live guitarist a...

Chicago musician Eric Reyes makes fuzzed-up, emotive pop-punk under the name Snow Ellet. He released his debut EP Suburban Indie Rock Star earlier this year, and then he dropped an expanded edition of that record a few months later. Today, there’s a new Snow Ellet single called “Cannonball.” It’s not a Bre...