Chicago Music

"Game of Thrones" fanatics have been going gaga over a cover of the show's theme song posted by "The Harp Twins" on YouTube last week. The video is on...

With the unveiling of the first wave of the eighth annual Riot Fest's 2012 lineup, the Chicago summer festival scene officially welcomes yet another i...

Tickets for the 2012 edition of the Ravinia summer concert season on Chicago's North Shore go on sale Thursday for the general public. And while th...

Ten years ago Monday, Chicago-based rock band Wilco released "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", which would be met with critical acclaim and become the band's be...

Chicago-based blues/rock outfit Scony Mack has deep roots in this city. With an ensemble culled from some of this town's most beloved, envelope-pushin...

After weeks of teasing, the city of Chicago has released the full lineup for its annual Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays series of highly popular fre...

The City of Chicago announced Thursday who will headline their newly-revamped Taste, but don't get too excited--scoring a seat to one of these shows w...

Chicago's North Coast Music Festival on Tuesday unveiled the initial lineup of acts playing its third-annual edition this Labor Day weekend in Union P...

The initial lineup announcement of another festival coming to Chicago proves, once more, that Lollapalooza and Pitchfork are far from the only large-s...

With the addition of 21 acts announced Thursday, the lineup for Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, slated to be held July 13-15 in the city's Union P...

The city of Chicago last week announced the preliminary lineup for its annual Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays series of free concerts at Millennium ...

Though it can be admired for filling a void in the local music scene by booking underground sounds and hosting independent concerts that might not oth...

With temperatures already approaching summer-like, record-breaking highs, it would be difficult to blame Chicagoans for getting a bit antsy for the pl...

Tickets to the 2012 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival went on sale at noon Friday. Set to take over Chicago's Union Park July 13-15, the fest...

On the morning of Feb. 23, Chicago band Carbon Tigers woke up to a devastating revelation: Overnight, a van containing all of their guitars, amps, dru...

CHICAGO — Best-selling author Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto," the story of terrorists taking hostages at a South American embassy, will find a home ...

The shockingly mild winter will be over soon -- and summer festival season will be in full swing. On Tuesday, Pitchfork Music Festival announced a par...

Tickets for angsty singer-songwriter Fiona Apple's first Chicago appearance since 2006 went on sale Friday at noon -- and promptly sold out within min...

Last week, Chicago singer-songwriter Briar Rabbit released the first song off his latest release "The Great Routine," an album inspired by taking a fr...

Raucous art-rock twosome The Kills kicked off their latest tour across the Atlantic with a reportedly sensual showing at Chicago's Riviera Theatre Fri...

Undeterred by dropping temperatures, the fourth annual Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival is celebrating the city's musical roots this weekend and n...

Wednesday evening marks the start of the 2012 Tomorrow Never Knows music festival in Chicago. As the city's first music festival of the year, sneak...

Chicago-based queer rapper Big Dipper late last month released a new music video for his debut single, the "Bambi" soundtrack-sampling "Drip Drop." ...

As 2011 draws to a close, we asked some of Chicago's experts in style, music and art to share their favorite places, people and things of the year. Af...

When Matt Baron, an ESL instructor at two Chicago public schools, began writing curriculum-based songs for his students, he came upon it somewhat acci...