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Music Reviews, Musicians, Concerts
In 2018, 74-year-old acoustic blues master Chris Smither stepped into an Austin, Texas, studio to…
Born in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and raised outside of Edmonton, Alberta, Jenie Thai is building…
Singer-songwriter Hayes Carll is a busy man these days. His sixth album, What It Is,…
So much happened during the nine-day, multiheaded monster known as the 2019 South by Southwest…
The Japanese psychedelic quintet Kikagaku Moyo defines their sound as “Feeling Good Music” on Facebook.…
The Beatles taught me how to sing. As an adolescent I spent hours hiding away…
Tubas and Christmas and Hawkeyes, oh my! It’s time for the annual Holiday Tuba Concert,…
English musician Richard Thompson is a triple threat. He’s celebrated for his technical skills on…
Field Division, the Des Moines duo of Evelyn Taylor and Nicholas Frampton, will be performing…
Despite their shared Windy Cindy location, Pitchfork and the Art Institute of Chicago would rarely…
In November 1943, a scared 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein strode onto the Carnegie Hall stage, faced…
Peter Oren is not an entertainer. Don’t go to see him perform if you are…
When we think about great blues music, certain places come to mind—Chicago, Memphis, the Delta,…
This month, I’m following up on SYML, an artist I first reviewed in July 2017.…