Chris Walz, a musician’s musician, a performer, and esteemed educator at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music for roughly the past three decades, brings his considerable talents to fruition
Music production has never been easier to learn. Online courses let students mix, master, and create beats from home. Some focus on electronic tracks, others on live recording. Sound design,
The festival season hits just as the sun blazes high, breezy tunes of summer echo into the air and there are music lovers all over the world who feel it.
A generation of fans grow up with their soccer idols. We go through the same stages, build families and become parents together. A few years ago, young and carefree promising
In recent years, Nels Cline’s albums on Blue Note have run the gamut from the lush, orchestrated romanticism of the expansive double-CD set Lovers of 2016 to the bristling interactions
The newest release from ZZ Ward, Liberation, finds the songstress rediscovering her love of the blues and delivering a stirring effort. Judging by the title and lyrical themes, Ward feels
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In the early ‘80s through the late ‘90s, the British label Creation Records helped usher in a slew of new music genres thanks to their signings – from shoegaze (My
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The Grateful Dead celebrates its diamond 60th anniversary this year with ENJOYING THE RIDE, a sweeping 60-CD collection that maps an epic cross-country road trip along the “Heady Highway” with stops at storied
