Allison Stewart

Portrait of pop singer Kim Petras (L) and cupcakKe (R) backstage at Ladyland Festival at The Brooklyn Mirage in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, June 22, 2018. (Laura Thompson/New York Daily News)

Getting your entertainment on in the time of coronavirus without leaving the couch (except to tip the DoorDash person)

March 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

Even before Governor J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered a coronavirus-related nightlife shutdown, the thought of standing around a crowded room with sweaty strangers was beginning to seem a...

Drive By Truckers is going to say what it wants to say, and doesn’t really care if you like it, so let the political songs begin

March 12, 2020 at 5:27 p.m.

Even for a band like Drive-By Truckers, who have spent a lifetime confounding expectations, making two deeply political albums in a row felt like a risk. Weeks before the 2016...

Legendary Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell takes side project Dirty Knobs center stage with ‘Wreckless Abandon’

March 9, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

Before guitarist Mike Campbell became the frontman of newish rock quartet the Dirty Knobs, he spent almost 50 years as co-captain of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a run that...

Cupcakes is back! Yes, the Chicago power pop group that you should be more excited about, after a failed album, label and personal relationships, has a thing, and it’s weird

March 2, 2020 at 4:05 p.m.

By the time Chicago power pop band Cupcakes broke up in 2000, no one mourned them. The self-titled debut that was supposed to make them stars had sunk without a...

Joe Henry went deep for his latest album, so, so deep, but don’t you dare call it his ‘cancer album’

February 20, 2020 at 3:18 p.m.

"The Gospel According to Water" is not Joe Henry's cancer album, even though he released it a year to the day after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 prostate cancer,...

What are you reconsidering in your life? If you’re Shakey Graves, the answer is well, pretty much everything

February 11, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Shakey Graves is reconsidering almost everything about the way he does business. He's always reconfiguring his sound, which has morphed from his one-man-band beginnings to that of a fuller...

A sleek Chevy sports car has is on display at the 1969 Chicago Auto Show.

10 of the weirdest, coolest moments from Chicago Auto Show history, including a Studebaker made of gold and a cougar named Chauncey

February 6, 2020 at 9:15 p.m.

The Chicago Auto Show began life at the turn of the last century, and has run almost every year since, though it took off most of the decade surrounding World...

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