One of the highlights of the Ballet Chicago Studio Company's Platinum Anniversary Concerts this Saturday will be the World Premiere of Frank Chaves' Ascension. Chaves worked with composer Josephine Lee, who will perform her original composition for Ascension live with cellist Meena Cho at the Harris Theater performances.
If Dylan Scott and Crown Royal wanted to team up to do something together, they could have chosen a lot of different ways to go about it. What they actually chose was a lot more imaginative than anything you might have expected — a lot more imaginative and probably a lot more important.
Music video can be such a dubious art, but this brand new one from French artist FKJ is a gem.
Mayaeni is a writer, a singer, and a guitar player, all of them in the old-school style, from Detroit. Johnny Nevin caught two of her shows in Chicago, got these pictures, and talked to her all about what it is she sees, and how.
Usually, when you write your very first song and upload it to YouTube, you don't get five million views. Julia Sheer did. Julia Sheer can write a song.
When David Julien released a track called "You Dancing" last summer, it surprised a lot of people. It wasn't just that the production was so driving, or that Julien's vocal was so rich with carefully crafted power. It may have been the way that Julien can layer a vocal with emotional nuances, as only somebody who really cares what they say in a song can do.
Lunar Chiefs are a new band out of Chicago with a cool, hard-to-nail-down sound, but it's all their own for sure. Where does it come from?
If you were ever trying to find Ashley Wallbridge, there would be a couple of places that you could look, although it would depend a lot on exactly when it was that you were trying to find him.
You may already know a lot about Jim Ed Norman, and just not realize it. In any case, you almost certainly know a lot of his music, although you probably don't think of it as exactly 'his' music. He doesn't either, but the impact that his music has had on the way that a lot of great artists have made their own music has been immense.
When you can do something as well as Kaki King can play a guitar, there's just no telling where it might take you.