Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

The six-man soul group takes the stage Friday for its fifth annual “Hollyy-Days” show, with holiday covers and new songs.

Beginning with Sondra Radvanovsky at the Lyric and including Steppenwolf’s Caroline Neff as well as Ryan Hake as the lead of “Angels in America.” ...

These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten. Musically, they’re all over the map ...

To skirt the now-grating classics and AI slop, we’ve compiled a playlist of tunes spanning folk, R&B, and alt-rock, all from ...

As both a music critic and a seasonal fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, here are a half dozen essentials.

From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

Legendary R&B singer D’Angelo died on Oct. 14. He was 51. TMZ reported that the singer’s death came after a battle with ...

Each Wednesday, WTTW News producer Josh Terry presents must-see live music shows from indie rock to jazz, country, hip-hop ...

They were called 'The Hit Factory' for good reason. Here are Stock Aitken Waterman’s 15 greatest songs, ranked.

From Lady Gaga and Geese to Lily Allen and Rosalía, these are the albums our staff believes every music lover should hear.

From Backstreet Boys to Oasis, we saw more than two dozen major shows in 2025. Here are the 10 most remarkable concerts of ...