Joshua Klein

Sturgill Simpson takes command of country’s past, future

June 18, 2018 at 8:57 a.m.

Sturgill Simpson's 2013 debut "High Top Mountain" earned comparisons to such one-named icons as Willie, Waylon and Merle. His second album, this year's "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music," magnified the...

Review: Lydia Loveless’ rock exorcisms blast Lincoln Hall

June 18, 2018 at 10:15 a.m.

On paper, there's something almost anonymously simple about Lydia Loveless. Her third album, the Bloodshot-endorsed "Somewhere Else," is full of tracks whose straight-forward titles -- "Hurts So Bad," "Really Want...

Review: FKA twigs mesmerizing at Metro

June 17, 2018 at 9:37 a.m.

Tahliah Barnett, the artist known as FKA twigs, got her start as a dancer, twisting and turning as music video scenery. But if her subsequent, fast-evolving career as a musician,...

Charli XCX, during a September performance in Colorado.

Charli XCX is poised, and about to go boom

December 18, 2018 at 2:43 a.m.

Charli XCX gives the impression that no one tells her what to do, but it's hard to avoid the sense that a whole lot of people are trying anyway. A...

Kacey Musgraves full of charm, country kitsch at the Riv

June 17, 2018 at 12:14 p.m.

Fronting a band dressed in light-up suits on a stage decorated with neon cacti at the Riviera Saturday night, Kacey Musgraves played the part of the kitschy country throwback like...

Concert review: Television tuned in at Metro

December 23, 2018 at 11:45 p.m.

Leading his band Television at the Metro Thursday night, Tom Verlaine appeared anything but a standard-issue guitar hero, no matter how many members of the sold out crowd stared up...

Cut Copy trips back to the 60s, 80s at the Riv

December 24, 2018 at 11:36 a.m.

The first Summer of Love arrived in America in 1967, fueled by sex, drugs and rock and roll. A so-called second Summer of Love, however, landed in Britain around two...

Fiona Apple, Blake Mills explore togetherness

December 24, 2018 at 11:05 a.m.

Fiona Apple and Blake Mills took the name of their tandem tour, "Anything We Want," from a song on Apple's 2012 "The Idler Wheel...," but judging from the supplies spread...

Review: Rush at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

December 24, 2018 at 8:51 a.m.

"When ... did Rush become cool?" asked Dave Grohl, rhetorically, as he inducted the Canadian trio into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last spring. The short answer: it...

Johnny Marr focuses on new work at Metro with a nod to the Smiths

December 24, 2018 at 7:28 a.m.

Johnny Marr sometimes bristles when people bring up the Smiths. It was, after all, nearly 30 years ago that Marr, then only 23, left that group, and the guitarist has...

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