Otis Rush and his searing guitar immortalized the west-side Chicago blues sound

by Steve Krakow on October 9, 2018 at 7:00AM

Gone too soon: five films by directors who died young

by Patrick Friel on September 4, 2018 at 6:00AM

The Music Box Theatre and the Chicago Film Society present the 1930 film City Girl this Saturday at 11:30 AM as part of their monthly silent film series. The film's director, F.W. Murnau, died the year after its release in an automobile accident, cutting short his life and remarkable career.

How the 1968 DNC protests in Chicago ‘killed’ protest folk singer Phil Ochs

by Ryan Smith on August 25, 2018 at 6:00AM

"If there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution. If there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley into becoming Che Guevera.

Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy did much more than join the Blues Brothers

by Steve Krakow on July 2, 2018 at 8:32PM

RIP Chicago techno marvel and international cult figure Dan Jugle

by Leor Galil on June 20, 2018 at 5:20PM

Remembering soundman and musician Patrick Kenneally, who nurtured scenes in Chicago and Portland

by Leor Galil on June 18, 2018 at 1:44PM

Vlogger ZackTV devoted his life to making Chicago’s fractious rap scene into one community

by Leor Galil on June 4, 2018 at 7:26PM

In recent years Stoner traveled outside Chicago frequently, interviewing artists in Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, and beyond. He also expanded beyond music, talking to Fred Hampton Jr. about politics and taking an interest in the case of west-side teenager Kenneka Jenkins, who died in a Rosemont hotel freezer in September.

Singular pianist and musical mind Cecil Taylor has died at 89

by Peter Margasak on April 6, 2018 at 12:34PM

Masterful but overlooked Chicago jazz drummer Robert Barry has died

by Peter Margasak on March 6, 2018 at 2:24PM

Janet Bean, drummer for Eleventh Dream Day and cofounder of Freakwater, had been visiting Barry at Chalet. She'd gotten to known him when he and her late father shared an assisted-living facility in Lincoln Park called the Ivy Apartments.

This guy loved Mark E. Smith more than you ever did because he got a Mark E. Smith tattoo

by Aimee Levitt on January 25, 2018 at 8:19AM

"I bided my time and watched the guy for a while before I said something to him about it," Doerksen wrote. Because, you know, he's obviously a pretty heavy fan of the Fall, and they can be a bit . . .