Bone Bells is the third collaboration between pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and electric guitarist Mary Halvorson, two kindred spirits who continue to evolve their collective sound. Courvoisier has now begun writing
Nikki O’Neill, an R&B/Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Chicago, is releasing her third solo album, Stories I Only Tell My Friends. It’s being issued on Blackbird Record Label on
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
A punk band breaking up is as inevitable as a punk show breaking into slam-dancing mayhem. While these short spurts of musical projects have left a timeless mark on the
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
