Janine Schaults

Janine Schaults is a freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune.

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams talk Bob Dylan, Levon Helm and ‘Contraband Love’

December 18, 2018 at 6:19 a.m.

For richer, for poorer. In sickness and in health. In good songs and bad. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams have taken the latter to heart over 30 years of marriage...

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>

Rob Bochnik and the ‘simple hippie message’ of ‘Lovevolve’

December 18, 2018 at 6:05 a.m.

Touring Australia with Bob Dylan. Sharing a stage with the late Levon Helm during one of his legendary Midnight Ramble sessions. More than a handful of late-night TV appearances. Guitarist...

The Lone Bellow put friendship first and come out on the other side of the ‘Storm’

June 2, 2018 at 11:21 a.m.

The first time the members of The Lone Bellow heard one of their songs on the radio, they were driving on a snowy day into Chicago ahead of the band's...

Paul Simon made joy abundant at Northerly Island

August 18, 2019 at 9:17 p.m.

There must be 50 ways to leave a Paul Simon concert happy. Despite a 90-minute rain delay and the absence of longtime guitarist Vincent Nguini due to illness, the 75-year-old...

Neil Diamond is ‘so good, so good, so good’ at United Center

June 4, 2018 at 10:01 p.m.

Neil Diamond got a jump-start on celebrating Memorial Day at the United Center Sunday with a stirring rendition of the 1980 hit "America," which the 76-year-old singer dedicated to both...

Ha Ha Tonka is all grown up now on ‘Heart-Shaped Mountain’

December 17, 2018 at 11:04 p.m.

Even rock stars grow up. Just ask the men in Ha Ha Tonka. Since the Missouri-based band's last album in 2013, most of its five members have paired up, fathered...

Don’t listen to the Wild Reeds’ three-part harmonies with your eyes

December 17, 2018 at 11:06 p.m.

Three women and a banjo? Any band fitting those specifications must be a carbon copy of the Dixie Chicks, right? That's just one of the eye-roll-inducing comparisons the Wild Reeds...

Sam Smith performs at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 1, 2015.

Lollapalooza 2015 day three: Fest closes 30 minutes early due to weather

June 16, 2018 at 9:33 p.m.

Reports from Sunday, day three at Lollapalooza in Grant Park, from Greg Kot (GK), Bob Gendron (BG), Kevin Williams (KM), Tracy Swartz (TS) and Janine Schaults (JS): 10:28 p.m.: Lollapalooza...

"Shaun White was the last competitor and I wanted to make a tight action shot of him from up on the course since there were already about 100 photographers crammed into the finish area. Unfortunately from my position I couldn't see White's crash; advantage to the photographers who chose the left side of the pipe."

Olympic spoilers: Newsroom necessity or thoughtless act?

November 4, 2021 at 1:05 a.m.

Spoiler alert. With the advent of DVRs and slow fade of appointment television viewing, those two little words have become a life raft for anyone who couldn't (or wouldn't) park...

Olympic spoilers: Newsroom necessity or thoughtless act?

December 23, 2018 at 9:47 p.m.

Spoiler alert. With the advent of DVRs and slow fade of appointment television viewing, those two little words have become a life raft for anyone who couldn't (or wouldn't) park...

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