Tommy Castro, Ally Venable, Eric Gales, and Trombone Shorty headlined a festival that celebrated both Aurora’s blues past and its vibrant present.

A kickoff at Ramova Theatre launched the 2026 Chicago Blues Festival, highlighted by John Primer’s Tribute to Theresa’s Lounge and a strong thread of blues history.

The Juke Joint Festival remains one of the blues world’s great annual gatherings, bringing together legendary performers, emerging artists, and devoted fans in the place where many of their stories intersect.

New work from The Builders and The Butchers meets a look back at Linda Ronstadt’s formative years—two perspectives on endurance, evolution, and what holds over time.

Women-led acts delivered some of the most talked-about sets aboard Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise 2, a floating garage-rock festival sailing from Miami to Cozumel.

Thirty-nine minutes of no wasted space — The Record Company’s debut still packs a full-body punch.

Music as message, stage as platform. Margo Price confronts, unites, and leaves no note untold.

A packed Arcada Theatre welcomes Billy F. Gibbons and the BFGs for a night of ZZ Top favorites, blues covers, and Texas-sized stage presence.

Following up on last single “They Think It’s Funny,” Matt North returns with “Girl in…

Songs and stories from a performer whose voice and presence turn any stage into an evening measured in clever turns, exacting craft, and unexpected laughs.

Samantha Fish led Cedric Burnside and Jon Spencer through a shape-shifting night of Delta grooves, punk-blues swagger, and collaborative fireworks at Chicago’s House of Blues.

‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ is streaming, offering a glimpse inside the wildly creative, eccentric life of the soul-blues pioneer.