Some artists crowd-surf; Grace Jones prefers to conduct a regal tour. During a hyper-extended edition of ‘Pull Up To The Bumper’, the Jamaican icon promptly downs a glass of red wine before boarding the shoulders of a slightly flummoxed security guard – and commands him to ferry her around the entire front stalls of the […]The po...

Chicago is already a city with a whole lot of music festivals, but there’s apparently always room for one more. The new Chicago-area festival Sacred Rose just announced the lineup for its inaugural show, which comes to Seatgeek Stadium Campus in suburban Bridgeview 8/26-28. It’s important for any new music festival to have an...

Half a century later, it is once again time to kick out the jams. Wayne Kramer has announced the first new MC5 album in more than 50 years.

Leslie Bricusse, a British Emmy- and Grammy-winning songwriter who wrote world-renowned songs for film and Broadway, has died. He was 90. Bricusse was perhaps best known for writing the lyrics to the James Bond themes “Goldfinger” and “You Only Live Twice,” plus “Pure Imagination,” whi...

The Jamaican artist Popcaan has been one of the biggest stars in dancehall for years, and he and Drake are close enough that Drake has a tattoo of the flaming-skull logo for Popcaan's Unruly label. These days, Popcaan is officially a part of Drake's OVO empire. And last night, as a sort of Jamaican Independence…