Jack White has made headlines this week defending Tidal, the streaming service created by Jay Z of which White is a partial owner. Now, White has shared a supposedly unrelated poem titled Music Is Sacred.White posted an online Q&A regarding Tidal to Third Man Records website earlier this week, defending the streaming...

Of any Wicker Park music festival this year, Do Division almost certainly has the best lineup.Taking place May 29-31, the festival hosts two stages and six headliners worth talking about, with entry on an optional donation basis.The headliners are Murder By Death, Temples, Black Mountain, Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow), Nick Waterhouse...

Though members of The Who may have partied back in the day, the band is clearly no longer partaking in the stereotypical rock n roll lifestyle.Frontman Roger Daltrey threatened to end the bands Long Island concert early on Wednesday night due to an excessive amount of marijuana smoke making it to the stage.Apparently,...

A new Chicago music festival called Mamby On The Beach is set to take place on Oakwood Beach July 11 and 12.The beachfront festival boasts a lineup stocked with electronic bands and musicians, ranging from indie to pop to EDM.Headliners will be Empire Of The Sun and Passion Pit, though the festival features an array...

We love us a little NOLA around here, so this lineup of Crescent City Superstars descending on Chicago definitely raises an eyebrow.The only issue is how we'd be able to squeeze it all in because -- just like every other eye-popping lineup heading through town these days -- it's going down on July Fourth (...

After ongoing arguments between 26th Ward Alderman Roberto Maldonado and Riot Fest organizers, the music festival has settled on a new location far from its Humboldt Park origins.Riot Fest announced today that the festival will take place at Douglas Park in the North Lawndale neighborhood this September.The park bares many similarities to Humboldt...

Though nobody considers hit radio singles to be the most intelligent form of music, a recent study by Andrew Powell-Morse aims to show exactly how dumbed down the last decades chart-toppers can be.Powell-Morse formulaically analyzed the reading levels for 225 songs that spent at least three weeks atop Billboards Pop, Country, Rock and Hip-Hop song...

Lollapalloza released its daily schedule, and, as always, plenty of good bands sets overlap, creating a dilemma for music fans.Here are the most obvious conflicts by day. Friday:The War On Drugs vs. Alabama ShakesAlt-J vs. First Aid Kit vs. Gary Clark Jr.Paul McCartney vs. Sylvan Esso vs. Flying Lotus Saturday:...

It was the most catastrophic and frustrating ticket on sale event that I can recall -- probably in history. Between the GDTS Too Mail Order fiasco, cancelled pre-sales, overloaded TicketMaster servers and thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of fans shut out, the sales for the final three Fare Thee Well shows at Chicago's Soldier Field were...

I'm not gonna pretend I know exactly how the elimination rounds of NBC's The Voice works. All I know is that since we first reported that Greensky Bluegrass friend and collaborator, Michigan's Josh Davis would be a contestant, he has made it through round after round and is now actually on the cusp of winning...