Music and Concerts – Page 14

My Sacrifice, a south suburban-based Creed cover band, plays in 2025 at The Forge in Joliet. (My Sacrifice)

Popular Joliet concert venue The Forge to close after 9.5 years

By Elena Tittel

October 27, 2026 at 1:37 p.m.

Joliet concert venue The Forge will close this weekend after a decade of promoting local...

FILE – Jay-Z gestures from the sidelines prior to the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Jay-Z picks himself to headline the Super Bowl halftime show

By Jonathan Landrum Jr.

October 27, 2026 at 8:41 a.m.

The man who has helped produce the Super Bowl halftime show is stepping into the...

An Aztec dance group will be among the highlights of the Dia de los Muertos Festival on Nov. 1 in Oak Park. “I think the community is ready to celebrate again," said organizer Alma Martinez. "The community is asking to get together to honor our ancestors.” (Daveed Holmes, Aperture Photography)

Oak Park Dia de los Muertos Festival returns a year after being canceled by immigration enforcement fears

By Myrna Petlicki

October 26, 2026 at 2:07 p.m.

Public ofrendas are returning to Oak Park for a Dia de los Muertos Festival that...

This image provided by The Kristen Ann Carr Fund shows Dave Marsh speaking at the KACF “A Night to Remember” event at the Tribeca Grill in New York, April 20, 2013. (Marc Levine/The Kristen Ann Carr Fund via AP)

Bruce Springsteen biographer and music critic Dave Marsh dies at 76

By Lindsey Bahr

August 18, 2026 at 2:30 p.m.

Dave Marsh, a longtime music critic who wrote several influential books about Bruce Springsteen, including...

Duane Davis appears in court during the third day of jury selection in his murder trial, related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in Las Vegas. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, Pool)

A dispute about fact vs. fiction at the trial over Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing in Las Vegas

By Jessica Hill

August 17, 2026 at 7:12 p.m.

A prosecutor said Monday that while few have been willing to speak about the 1996...

Flowers and tributes left by fans decorate Elvis Presley's grave at Graceland, his Memphis, Tenn. home, on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Elvis Presley fans from around the world have come to Graceland for the annual remembrance of his death. Presley died at his Graceland mansion Aug. 16, 1977. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Today in History: Elvis Presley dies

By Associated Press

August 16, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee at...

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus receive applause at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago on Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: A monumental finale for the Grant Park Music Festival’s summer

By Hannah Edgar

August 15, 2026 at 1:57 p.m.

Classics, yes, but it was the 21st century works that reigned in a season-capping concert...

Tori Amos rises from her piano bench while performing at the Auditorium Theatre on Aug. 14, 2026, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Review: A fiery and unrestrained Tori Amos fills the Auditorium Theatre

By Bob Gendron

August 15, 2026 at 11:17 a.m.

While no longer in the commercial spotlight, the singer and pianist played with a passion...

Sooper Records, a wide-ranging, artist-run local label celebrates its 10th birthday, with Steven Daoud, Jess Myers Rigoni, Glenn Curran, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Frances Farley and Sen Morimoto, Aug. 3, 2026. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Chicago DIY is changing — but Sooper Records, hitting a decade of ‘genre-combusting freak music,’ is here to stay

By Hannah Edgar

August 14, 2026 at 5:30 a.m.

To understand Sooper Records, the anything-goes local label, you have to understand the 2010s DIY...

A memorial to the seven killed in the Aug. 13, 2011 stage collapse during a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair, goes virtually unnoticed by fair visitors on opening day of the 2012 run of the State Fair in Indianapolis, Aug. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Today in History: 7 die at Indiana State Fair

By Associated Press

August 13, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Aug. 13, 2011, seven people were killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair during...

Ariella Granados, pop vocalist who performs as Sparklmami, at Super Mall, 5220 S. Pulaski Road in Chicago, on June 30, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Column: Sparklmami’s debut album ‘In This Body’ pulls from her Chicago memories

By Britt Julious

August 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Sparklmami, along with her collaborators, has created a grounded record rooted in the past, memory,...

FILE – Rod Stewart performs during the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

Rod Stewart calls off remaining tour dates after coronary stent procedure

By Maria Sherman

August 11, 2026 at 6:38 p.m.

Sir Rod Stewart will be unable to continue his “One Last Time” farewell tour following...

Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band performs on July 27, 2021, at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia. (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP, File)

New Dave Matthews Band tour will come to Chicago

By Doug George

August 11, 2026 at 9:38 a.m.

The band announced a fall tour on Tuesday, including a stop at the United Center...