A month into former Vernon Hills resident Mark Plotnick’s retirement, his longtime friend and professional concert ...

The sheer scale of Michael Jackson’s fame can sometimes overshadow the music itself. From the moment he danced into America’s ...

Revived local favorites Fantasy bring their danceable power-pop grooves to the Ivy Room Saturday night for a show that ...

The first 25 years of the 21st century started with a bang for rock music. The genre had taken a hit as the ’90s closed, as ...

January hasn't necessarily been a month associated with big album releases throughout history. But 1970 proved an exception ...

Tunes as well-known local musicians Kathy Bartol and John Derk perform decades of classic rock songs at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, ...

A great cover can make you think the covering band wrote the song. This one closes The Band’s debut album but they ... rescued Dylan’s classic from the reggae-rock clutches of Guns N ...

In this month's K! style column we're diving deep into punk archives, finding the best knitwear around and embracing some ...

With the studio album 'Aghori Mhori Mei,’ leader Billy Corgan has Smashing Pumpkins dialing back to their roots ...

Hi, I'm Mike, and this is my 15-year-old daughter Annie. Recently, I asked Annie who the teen heartthrobs are for her ...

At one time the shelf that held all the Sinatra albums was 70 feet wide,” said Doug Allen, owner of Bananas Records, ...

Ace’s famous stage prop was his rocket-firing guitar, which almost led to disaster. “I fired one of those rockets at Gene and ...