Bob Gendron – Page 20

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Review: Mark Lanegan loves the dark, and you will, too

June 2, 2018 at 11:22 p.m.

Mark Lanegan preferred the darkness, literally and figuratively, Tuesday at Thalia Hall. Boldly venturing into the nether regions of his mind, the singer explored sins, spirits and loneliness during a...

Paul McCartney delivers Beatles history lesson in Tinley Park

August 18, 2019 at 4:22 p.m.

Paul McCartney arrived in a Beatles mood Tuesday at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre. Performing the first of a two-night stand, the 75-year-old legend devoted a majority of his wide-ranging 165-minute concert...

Waxahatchee was out for blood at Thalia Hall

December 17, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Waxahatchee leader Katie Crutchfield played like a woman determined to reclaim her identity and self worth Wednesday at Thalia Hall. Backed by a watertight quartet, the singer attacked songs with...

Pitchfork day 3: Jamila Woods makes the most of her moment, Solange brings theatrical panache

June 3, 2018 at 6:53 a.m.

Reports from Sunday, day three at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, from Greg Kot (GK) and Bob Gendron (BG): 1:17 p.m.: Kilo Kish begins the final day of...

Pitchfork day 2: PJ Harvey reminds everyone who’s boss, A Tribe Called Quest is in a boisterous mood

June 29, 2019 at 9:08 a.m.

Reports from Saturday, day two at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, from Greg Kot (GK) and Bob Gendron (BG): 1:10 p.m.: PJ Harvey probably won't be playing guitar...

Pitchfork day 1: LCD Soundsystem picks up where it left off, Kamaiyah makes an impression

June 3, 2018 at 7:32 a.m.

Reports from Friday, day one at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, from Greg Kot (GK), and Bob Gendron (BG): 1:25 p.m.: Madame Gandhi reads lines from "The Feminist...

Tom Petty brings a master class to Wrigley on 40th anniversary tour

August 18, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers kicked off their 40th anniversary appearance at a sold-out, rain-soaked Wrigley Field on Thursday by bringing everything full circle with "Rockin' Around (With You)." The...

Robert Trujillo, of Metallica, performing at Soldier Field on Sunday, June 18,2017.

Rote, boring Metallica a shadow of itself at Soldier Field

June 29, 2019 at 5:40 p.m.

Metallica can still make a ruckus. Sunday at a sold-out Soldier Field, the veteran metal quartet opened its 135-minute set with the manic gallop of "Hardwired." The band later matched...

Feist rules the day with fearlessness and ‘Pleasure’

December 17, 2018 at 5:01 p.m.

Leslie Feist isn't hurting for moxie. At the first of a two-night stand Wednesday at the Vic, the singer opted to play her entire new "Pleasure" record in the exact...

Review: Mastodon fearless, fierce at Aragon

June 4, 2018 at 9:04 p.m.

True to the heft implied by its name, Mastodon devoted spans of its fearless 95-minute concert at a packed Aragon on Saturday to tough, intense, burly music that dared all-comers...

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