Pop music top 10 for summer: Our must-see shows, from Chance the Rapper to Japanese BreakfastThe restrictions are gone. The festivals are back. And Chicago’s music festival scene is more robust than ever. May 23, 2023
The Spinners donate performance outfits to Motown Museum in DetroitHenry Fambrough had a musical homecoming of sorts Friday at “Hitsville U.S.A.” May 21, 2023
Review: The National opens its ‘Frankenstein’ tour at the Auditorium Theatre, all emotions on displaySo much for easing back into things. On the first night of a sold-out, four-night stand, the National opened with a ballad about a fracturing relationship. May 19, 2023
Photos: The National plays Chicago's Auditorium Theatre The National performs at Auditorium Theatre in Chicago May 18, the first of four nights. May 19, 2023
Tim McGraw will headline Illinois State Fair this summerThis summer’s fair will run Aug. 10-20 in Springfield. May 16, 2023
Review: Kali Uchis at Aragon Ballroom in Chicago mixes it up and moves at a pace all her ownKali Uchis adhered to an old adage: Leave them wanting more. At the first of a sold-out, two-night stand, she performed more than 20 songs in 75 minutes without ever appearing rushed. May 16, 2023
Riot Fest 2023 lineup: Foo Fighters, The Cure and Queens of the Stone Age in Douglass ParkThe three-day festival will be Sept. 15-17 in Douglas Park with tickets on sale 10 a.m. May 16. May 16, 2023
Review: Renée Fleming and Evgeny Kissin at the CSO, with Rachmaninoff songs a timely highlightThe two Duparc selections at the program’s end left an outsize impression: an otherworldly, aching “Extase” and almost tragicomic “Le manoir de Rosemonde.” May 15, 2023
Photos: Kali Uchis performs at the Aragon BallroomSinger Kali Uchis performs on her Red Moon in Venus Tour at the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom on May 15, 2023. May 14, 2023
Review: ‘Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2′ at CSO is a program to make believers of skepticsRiccardo Muti leads a program with Rachmaninoff’s gargantuan, beyond-lush Symphony No. 2 and a premiere of “Transfigure to Grace" by composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery. May 12, 2023
Nola Adé's new EP ‘Royal’ hopes to uplift listeners with feel-good, upbeat songsOn “Royal,” Nola Adé has incorporated more jazz and Afrobeats to create a genre she calls “Afro-soul” music. May 08, 2023
Shawn Okpebholo’s music is about to be on operatic stages in the comic one-act ‘The Cook-Off’Between his work with poignant texts and projects with opera superstars, Shawn Okpebholo writes the kind of music that begs for the stage. May 08, 2023
Review: Blink-182 at United Center: Back together but still finding their edgeWith its best-known lineup together again for the first time in nearly a decade, Blink-182 revisited its turn-of-the-century heyday Saturday at the first of a two-night stand at United Center. May 07, 2023
Things to do around Chicago: Mexico Fest, Luke Combs, Doc10 Film Festival and the incomparable Diana RossThe live music season begins to heat up in earnest these next few days, also with area concerts by The Killers and Blink-182. May 05, 2023
Ed Sheeran didn’t copy Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On,’ jury rulesThe verdict in New York came after a two-week trial that featured a courtroom performance by Ed Sheeran as the singer insisted, sometimes angrily, that the trial was a threat to all musicians who create their own music. May 04, 2023
Review: Third dancer’s the charm in unforgettable collaboration between Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art IsThis program’s long-awaited Chicago premiere was one of 2023′s most inspiring cultural events so far. May 03, 2023
Grant Park Music Fest conductor Carlos Kalmar is investigated at Cleveland Institute of MusicHe is the subject of a Title IX investigation at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he has taught since 2021. May 03, 2023
Jonas Brothers set 35-date tour for summer and fall, including Wrigley Field concertAmong the largest of the newly announced shows, the Jonas Brothers hits Wrigley Field Aug. 25. May 03, 2023
Review: Yo-Yo Ma with the CSO: Sometimes messy, sometimes touching, but it’s Yo-Yo MaLast night at Symphony Center, the conductor was trying to melt into the floor, and Yo-Yo Ma wasn't letting him. May 02, 2023
Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot, known for ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’, dies at 84Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits including “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported worldwide, died on Monday. He was 84. May 01, 2023