The band consists of Allegra Larson (Dr. Hammerhand/Allegra & the Daydreamers) on keys, Monte Arnstam (Slobdrop, Outer Stylie ...

Soft Machine's longest-serving member Mike Ratledge, who also worked with Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers, has died after a short ...

Known as Daddy G, he recorded with Jackie Wilson, Chuck Willis and others, but he was best known for the Gary U.S. Bonds ...

They were teenagers when they blew up, inspiring hope that Gen Z just might pick up the guitar-music torch after all. Now, ...

Chicago music: rapper Qari drops a new record produced by multi-instrumentalist Ari Burns; Save the Night presents its latest show ...

Shoegaze, the fuzzy, ethereal rock genre typified by U.K. pioneers My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, has a new home base: the Keystone State.

The State Farm Center and Central Illinois Multimedia Group are partnering to present a rock concert with performances by ...

From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

Pete Ham, the driving force behind power-pop icons Badfinger, tragically took his own life in 1975 at the age of 27. Though ...

The inspiration for David Gray’s new album goes right back to White Ladder, his slow-burning 1998 breakthrough. That record, which topped the UK charts three years after its original release ...

Music to the ears of one listener could be intolerable noise to another, making it difficult to scientifically quantify the heavyweight description of the “most influential rock band of all time.” ...