Billy Corgan, a Pumpkin at Ravinia
Billy Corgan's booking this Saturday night at Ravinia somehow is both odd and logical. The odd part is imagining the ferocious/sensitive '90s alternative-rock god howling, "Despite all my rage I...
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Why do albums take so long to make?
On March 10, 1967, 15 days shy of her 25th birthday, Aretha Franklin released her 12th album and Atlantic Records debut, "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love...
Last recording studios standing in Chicago
The array of activities is familiar to Chicago Recording Co. general manager Chris Shepard as he walks from floor to floor, studio to studio one late morning: a young rock...
Retired CSO violist William Schoen dead at 94
William Schoen had the resume of a life lived in music: 31 years as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's assistant principal violist and assistant principal emeritus, decades performing in the Chicago...
Review: Billy Joel plays The Entertainer at Wrigley Field
One of the lesser-known songs that Billy Joel performed Friday at Wrigley Field was "The Entertainer," a caustic bit of showbiz commentary that includes the line, "I won't be here...
Billy Joel’s Wrigley show on, despite death of mother
Billy Joel's Wrigley Field concert scheduled for Friday will go on as planned, five days after the musician's mother, Rosalind Nyman Joel, died on Long Island at age 92.A local...
Rocker Patti Smith wins Tribune Literary Award
Patti Smith was writing long before she became known as a rock performer, so the accolades she has been receiving for her written work have a complete-the-circle sort of feel....
Rocker Patti Smith wins Tribune Literary Award
Patti Smith was writing long before she became known as a rock performer, so the accolades she has been receiving for her written work have a complete-the-circle sort of feel....
Rocker Patti Smith wins Tribune Literary Award
Patti Smith was writing long before she became known as a rock performer, so the accolades she has been receiving for her written work have a complete-the-circle sort of feel....
Review: Paul McCartney rebounds at United Center
Let's start with the undeniable: At eight years older than that fellow who needs to be fed in "When I'm Sixty-Four," Paul McCartney is not supposed to be able to...