On Friday night, the Strokes headlined a benefit concert for Chicago congressional candidate Kina Collins, which took place at the Credit Union 1 Arena. It’s the second time that the band has performed to support Collins — they also did an intimate show in 2022. This weekend’s show took place on Collins’ b...

The Oklahoma country-rock phenom Zach Bryan, one of the biggest music-business success stories of the past few years, will spend much of this year on his Quittin Time tour. At various dates on that tour, Bryan’s shows will include openers like Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell. Some of those nights, he’s playing football stadiums....

Last year, Slow Pulp shared Yard, which was our Album Of The Week and reached #17 on our Best Albums Of 2023 list. Today, the Chicago indie rockers took some songs from the LP to CBS’ Saturday Sessions.

For the past few decades, Martin Sorrondeguy has left a huge imprint on American DIY music. As the frontman of legendary bands Los Crudos and Limp Wrist, Sorrondeguy has radicalized a whole lot of people. A few years ago, Sorrondeguy got together with members of the thrashy Chicago hardcore band Sin Orden to start a new group called Canal Irreal...

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have a joint album called Vultures coming out soon. Because of Kanye’s raging antisemitism, the rollout has been happening away from the bright media spotlight that used to greet every new Kanye project. But he’s still doing the usual routine, with large-scale listening parties in gigantic venues....