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Stevie Nicks slays United Center with Fleetwood Mac and solo classics, lauds late Christine McVie

The focus of Stevie Nicks’ previous visit to the United Center was entirely Fleetwood Mac, since after all, it was the iconic act’s 50th anniversary, which in hindsight [More…]

Multiple Grammy winner and guitar genius Pat Metheny’s “Side-Eye” stuns in Ravinia return

Calling Pat Metheny a jazz artist is certainly accurate, but it also sells the guitar genius short since he’s won twenty Grammy Awards in a record-breaking ten categories, [More…]

Hometown heroes Chicago a “Hard Habit To Break” during Ravinia’s idyllic opening weekend

Nothing is as synonymous with summer surrounding the Windy City than Ravinia, and when it came to opening weekend, there was arguably no more quintessential act to consider [More…]

A half-century of Los Lobos, collaborations and Lil’ Ed close a chilly Chicago Blues Festival

It’s always a shame when the weather doesn’t cooperate with an event planned for the great outdoors, but the Chicago Blues Festival nonetheless soldiered on and fans [More…]

The Cure: “Shows Of A Lost World” Tour at United Center

Alternative/gothic rock innovators The Cure don’t come around all that often anymore, which made the United Center sell out in seconds for the “Shows Of A Lost World” [More…]

Blind Boys Of Alabama, Bobby Rush, Albert King’s centennial salute begin bountiful Blues Fest

Since 1984, the Chicago Blues Festival has hosted every major musician of its stripe imaginable, attracting both a considerable local and international audience along the [More…]

Seal blows the Chicago Theatre a “Kiss From A Rose,” plus Trevor Horn’s The Buggles bonus

When Seal debuted with a boundary-shattering blend of rock, pop, soul and dance, there was no one like the British singer/songwriter/guitarist, who even now on the “30th [More…]

John Oates sets up a living room inside the Genesee, decorated by blues, solo and hits with Hall

He’s one half of the best-selling musical duo to ever walk the earth, plus a solo artist and author of the memoir “Change Of Seasons,” which meant John Oates not only [More…]

City Winery soaks up troubadour Al Stewart’s “Time Passages,” backed by The Empty Pockets

One of the most important figures in the British folk revival of the 1960s and ‘70s was unquestionably the Scottish-born Al Stewart, who besides crafting some of the [More…]

Genesee Theatre seized by Midwest exclusive of Stewart Copeland’s “Police Deranged For Orchestra”

Man of many talents Stewart Copeland may have started keeping the beat for The Police, but went on to score a mountain of movie, television and video game soundtracks, in [More…]