Renowned veteran jazz guitarist and Chicago legend George Freeman has passed away. Freeman died on April 1 at the age of 97, ...

The celebrated hard rock/metal band Godsmack won't be the same without Shannon Larkin and Tony Rambola. The band has seen ups ...

Welcome to Year 9 of High School Confidential, powered by Danville Area Community College. It's an award-winning project made possible by aspiring student journalists from every corner of our ...

Mr. Freeman's guitar solos were throaty and daring and danced around the sax work of greats like Gene Ammons and Charlie ...

Ragweed will reconvene to play their first full concerts together in 15 years — and their first stadium shows ever — April 10 ...

SpeakerIllinois Attorney General Kwame RaoulIllinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, born in Chicago to Haitian immigrants, ...

March 2025. We had the great honor to talk with a very talented musician: Peter Albin. He is most well-known as the bass ...

When Chicago's drummer Danny Seraphine was only a teenager, he was faced with two choices - become a professional musician, or join the Mafia.

This being Kraftwerk, the two-hour concert gave each song its own, unique visual treatment — and took full advantage of the ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by WateRR & Machacha, Half Gringa, and ...

How did one group, formed by often-feuding brothers from working-class North London, have this much depth and scope? “Sunny ...

Gullah music's South Carolina culture is centuries old. Bands like Grammy winning Ranky Tanky are keeping the tradition alive ...