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Steve Aoki performs during the Spring Awakening music festival at Addams/Medill Park on June 8, 2018.

Spring Awakening finds its groove and adds a message

Now in its seventh year and third located at Addams/Medill Park, Spring Awakening Music Festival demonstrated it has comfortably found its groove, showcasing a variety of electronic dance music acts...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Haim brings hits, chops and the beat to the Aragon

Solidarity may seem hard to come by lately, but as Haim demonstrated during the band's sold-out Aragon show on Friday, a little playful sibling rivalry could also be empowering. Currently...
Frontman Brandon Flowers, of The Killers, in September.

The Killers brought glam, slam to the United Center

The Killers may have headlined a few Lollapaloozas, but their show at United Center on Tuesday marked new territory. Charismatic singer Brandon Flowers told the packed house that dreams come...
Halsey performs during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards in May.

Halsey was honest, empowering at Allstate Arena

‘This show's about duality and honesty," Halsey explained during her sold-out show at Allstate Arena on Sunday, and she made good on those words, delivering a performance that spanned cathartic...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Polished Haim lets loose at the Riviera

"This is my favorite part of the set because I let everything go," keyboardist-guitarist Alana Haim remarked before sibling group Haim launched into "My Song 5" at a sold-out Riviera...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Lionel Richie brought all the hits and more

Lionel Richie promised "all the hits" on his tour of the same name, and deliver he did at his United Center stop on Saturday, with an infectious grin, engaging banter...
Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Chance’s afterparty a Lolla victory lap

Among the people who might feel ready for a victory lap this Lollapalooza weekend, Chance the Rapper seems pretty deserving. In about half a decade, he's graduated from a Lollapalooza...