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Pop/punk “Saviors” Green Day give Wrigley “Dookie,” “American Idiot” and side of Smashing Pumpkins

Pop/punk probably wouldn’t have made it to the mainstream had it not been for Green Day, who exactly three decades after nationally debuting with “Dookie” and twenty [More…]

Hard Rock “This Town”: Stray Cats’ latest reunion struts, speeds and swings in honor of 45th birthday

When pop, rock and the surrounding culture of MTV were at their most excessive in the front half of the 1980s, the Stray Cats were downright revolutionary for going the [More…]

Hootie & The Blowfish and friends steer “Summer Camp With Trucks” towards CU1 Amp

Nowadays, Hootie & The Blowfish doesn’t come around nearly as often as its heyday in the 1990s, though even with a half-decade absence from the area, the more than 25 [More…]

Latin leader Peso Pluma finally makes up Fiserv Forum delay on the way to global takeover

He may have only gotten started around 2020, but Peso Pluma is already the most streamed artist of all time in Mexico who’s just as quickly conquering America and the rest [More…]

Melanie Martinez’s “Trilogy,” Blink-182 “One More Time,” Conan, Teddy close fully loaded Lolla

The end of Lollapalooza is always a bittersweet circumstance, but at least it went out with a bang thanks to a fully loaded line-up where the present intersected with the [More…]

Lollapalooza shines the “Rebel Diamonds” of The Killers, plus Skrillex, Deftones and Tate McRae

The fact that it was officially the weekend, coupled with some seriously buzzing bookings, brought the masses out to Lollapalooza earlier than ever and helped the time fly by [More…]

Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, Jason Bonham offer CU1 Amp “Best Of All Worlds”

Now that Eddie Van Halen is no longer physically on this earth, the likelihood of Van Halen reuniting is next to nothing, which makes Sammy Hagar’s “The Best Of All [More…]

SZA, Moroney, Rapp, Laufey and the leading ladies of Lollapalooza, Zedd keeps the beat

The momentum kept right on rolling for the Friday installment of Lollapalooza, which led to another super-sized audience that was endlessly entertained by major leaguers and [More…]

Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hot Girl Summer,” the boom of Benson, crowning of Chappell lead Lolla

It might have only been getting started on an otherwise typical Thursday, but Grant Park was packed to the max for the kick-off to the long weekend of Lollapalooza, which [More…]

Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey dives “Into The Gap,” Thomas Dolby blinds HOB with science

Two influential English artists from the 1980s who just so happen to share the same first name, Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey and Thomas Dolby, finally joined forces for an [More…]