Music
The education of Richard Marx
For a large segment of the pop-music audience who graduated from the waning days of MTV video dominance, Richard Marx, the Chicago-bred singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, will probably be forever associated with a lengthy catalog of late ’80s and ’90s hits, ...
The right kind of noise
There seems to be a cultural (maybe generational) shift happening; musicians are forsaking the rigidity and structure of a single genre in favor of...
The frog king cometh
Theoretically, when you drop a stone into water, the ripples continue on forever, ad infinitum.
So while Jeremy Enigk doesn’t regret coming out as...
Beyond the swinghouse
After a failed attempt, or three, we finally caught up to Lao Tizer on a Friday afternoon after he had wrapped up a band...
Heavy Rotation
“SULA (Paperback),” Jamila Woods
For her most recent release, LEGACY! LEGACY!, Chicago R&B artist Jamila Woods highlights artists of color who have inspired her: Zora...
Slideshow: Dead Floyd at the Fox Theatre, Oct. 6
Jeremy Williams was at Thursday's Dead Floyd show at the Fox Theatre. Check out his photos below.
‘Sweaty Greeley Soul’
A music pastor and a trumpet player walk into a bar. It’s May of 2013, and Johnny Burroughs — a licensed minister — is...
Strange train
Just a few days before Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros descend on the Boulder Theater, the band will be making an appearance at Austin’s South By Southwest festival to promote Big Easy Express, a new film directed by Emmett Malloy covering the troupe’s tour-by...
Fifty years and counting
Like millions of Americans who lived through the 1960s, my home was filled with Walter Cronkite’s nightly narration of the events of the day. It seemed the struggle for civil rights was at the center of every newscast only to be replaced at times by the bloody ...
Peaches teaches
When the iconic, multi-talented Peaches (born Merrill Nisker) answered our recent Zoom call, she was lounging in a sunny Los Angeles backyard, playing with...


















