Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by WateRR & Machacha, Half Gringa, and ...

Some way into tonight’s spellbinding performance, The Delines guitarist and songwriter Willy Vlautin outlines the upward ...

The process of deciding what single to drop before a musical release is an inevitable dilemma for many artists.

For as much as up-and-coming acts have issues with the quality of their work, it's nice to know even Paul McCartney gets ...

I will forever be indebted to my parents for the gift of the guitar. My patient and kind mother encouraged me when I wanted to give up. She believed in my potential and pushed me to keep practising.

The cover opened Jasmine.4.t’s set, which was then followed up by a performance of ‘Skin On Skin’, also ... duties while Baker plays the acoustic guitar. Like the upcoming album, ‘Showdown ...

Jasmine.4.t tells us about her breakthrough this year, with an assist from Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker (a.k.a. boygenius) ...

as he strums an acoustic guitar. Top sings, "I got a hundred dollars smokin' in my billfold / I know I oughta save it, but it's burnin' a hole / Right through my pocket and into my skin / Come ...

DETROW: The new album is called "Foxes In The Snow." When Isbell stopped by the NPR studios the other day, I started by asking him about that evocative image. ISBELL: (Singing) I like her friends. The ...

From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, and proof that innovative dance music is still being made, tQ's staffers round up ...

The album “PO$T AMERICAN” begins with the sound of Gregg Deal thumping an animal-skinned hand drum. He opens his mouth and ...

After a watershed year in 2024 with SABOTAGE, multi award-winning and 2025 Taite Prize finalist Mel Parsons brings a taste of ...