Joe Ely

Born in Los Angeles in '53, Russell taught criminology in Nigeria, played music in bars in Vancouver, spent time in New York and now calls the El Paso area home. Read More

Matisyahu As musical and cultural boundaries bend and blend, there was bound to be a Hasidic Jew singing rasta music. Read More

Depending which metalhead you ask, metal is either being saved or being strychnined by Dethklok, the cartoon band at the center of the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse. Read More

Depending which metalhead you ask, metal is either being saved or being strychnined by Dethklok, the cartoon band at the center of the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse. Read More

It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village. 429 Records' new collection titled The Village--A Celebration Of The Music Of Greenwich Village spotlights the historical significance of the neighborhood's folk music scene with passionate contributions by thirteen artists including Rickie Lee Jones, Los Lobos, Bruce Hornsby, Amos Lee, Shelby Lynne, Cowboy Junkies, John Oates, Lucinda Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rachael Yamagata, and others. Read More

I first came to the festival two years ago (and I'm listening to the Jeff Tweedy set from that year as I write) and of course fell in love with the park as a venue for live music. Read More

Singer-songwriter Joe Ely has been in love with trains his whole life. Read More

Music was the only path for Colin Gilmore, even though he didn't totally commit to it until his mid-20s. Read More

This weekend's Chicago Country Music Festival has moved for the second time in as many years. Read More

In its second year since splitting off from the Taste of Chicago, the Chicago Country Music Festival moves from the parkland surrounding Soldier Field north to Grant Park, where it will present two days of free country, roots rock, and honky-tonk this Saturday and Sunday. Read More