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Mavis Staples, B.B. King Centennial, Chess’ 75th, John Primer amongst Blues Fest favorites

To locals, the Chicago Blues Festival is an annual chance to congregate and celebrate, primarily in Millennium Park, though it’s also just as much an international tourist [More…]

The revolutionary Grace Jones, fellow visionary Janelle Monáe rivet pride-filled Ravinia

Summer officially started now that Ravinia Festival in Highland Park unlocked its gates, and for the next three months, will be populated with artists of all ages [More…]

The Weekend’s amazing “After Hours” Soldier Field finale takes “Hurry Up Tomorrow” twist

Coming off a particularly prolific stretch of three blockbuster albums in a mere five years, The Weeknd continued his gargantuan “After Hours Til Dawn” Tour with another [More…]

United Center crowns Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Stephanie Mills “The Queens!”

Rarely has a tour more accurately lived up to its title than when the Black Promoters Collective teamed with the United Center to bring together Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, [More…]

On an Eagles break, “Guitar Slinger” Vince Gill gives Chicago Theatre a country marathon

From his breakthrough in the Pure Prairie League, to annual Christmas concerts alongside wife/fellow artist Amy Grant and accompanying the Eagles since the passing of Glenn [More…]

Hard Rock Live stocks up on the laughs of cross-generational stage and screen star George Lopez

No stranger to the stage, movies, television or recording comedy albums for over four decades, George Lopez is a cross-generational star with a multi-cultural audience, who [More…]

Beyoncé makes more history in breathtaking opening of Soldier Field’s “Cowboy Carter” stretch

Never have Beyoncé’s instantly iconic “Texas Hold ‘Em” lines, “there’s a tornado in my city/ hit the basement, that s*** ain’t pretty,” been more fitting [More…]

“O Sun O Moon,” veteran Canadian troubadour Bruce Cockburn enlightens Old Town

Artistry and activism have always gone hand in hand for Bruce Cockburn, who for 55 straight years, has retained a rarely rivaled streak of productivity, while articulately [More…]

Industrial institution Ministry “Work For Love” throughout Riviera’s “Squirrely Years” sell out

As Chicago’s industrial rock institution Ministry sets sights on a final studio project slated for 2026, the Al Jourgensen-led band is going back to the very beginning and [More…]

The Vic turns the “Key” on four solo decades of Alison Moyet, Yaz’s iconic synth-pop “Situation”

Either co-leading Yaz throughout the early part of the 1980s or spending exactly four decades on her own, Alison Moyet’s inimitable voice and hypnotic presence is as [More…]