Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

Chance the Rapper brought holiday cheer and two wheels of freedom to a crowd of Chicago children on Monday (December 16) by giving away 100 bicycles during a festive event at Raising Cane’s in Chicago ...

More than 40 years after noisy no-wave band Bag People broke up, Drag City released a collection of their blistering ...

Along with his older brother, Logan, Baren was an obsessive fan of the British Invasion sound of the 1960s. The band signed ...

After a decade of silence, Dave Huismans—the Dutch musician formerly known as 2562 and A Made Up Sound—returned this year ...

Singer Jeff Buckley died at 30 years old after an accidental drowning on May 19, 1997. Here's everything to know about Jeff ...

Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 19, Dogs in a Pile resumed their residency at Chicago’s newly opened Garcia’s venue. It was a red-letter day for the ensemble, with considerable hype surrounding the midnight ...

From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

Iron Maiden's Live After Death returns to multiple charts after an anniversary vinyl reissue, hitting No. 1 on the rock ...

Wages are the sticking point in negotiations for Chicago Public Schools’ lunchroom workers, who have been without a contract for nearly six months.

Eric Bellinger talks about his Jagged Edge tour, latest album, career evolution, and the city’s influence on R&B ahead of his ...