SBTRKT (music group)

Even before the release of her debut album, the English singer Jessie Ware was attracting next-big-thing buzz with appearances on tracks by cutting-edge dance-music artists such as SBTRKT and Joker. But she wasn't born hip. "Growing up, I was the person...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. A charter school reform bill that keeps local school boards in control of authorizing the alternative public schools is headed for a vote in the state House today as lawmakers try to wrap up their......

The only bad part of Jessie Ware's 2012 was an encounter with the estate of Big Pun. The British singer-songwriter, who broke out as a future pop star with her Sade-like debut "Devotion," believed her people had cleared a sample from the late rapper's...

The Lollapalooza Music Festival kicks off Friday in Chicago, and the Tribune will have full coverage. If you aren't sure which bands to see on the festival's first day, allow Tribune music critic Greg Kot to offer up some picks for must-see acts:...

Here’s the rundown for Friday, Day 1 of Lollapalooza in Grant Park, as brought to you by yours truly (GK) and my colleague Bob Gendron (BG): 11:45 a.m.: Are they expecting the Normandy invasion? Lollapalooza officials say that security has been...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. A new Quinnipiac University poll out this morning has President Barack Obama topping Republican Mitt Romney by 50 percent of better in polls of likely voters in three, key swing states. Here's the head-to-heads:...

Short Order A retro-ish mix of blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, unconventional folk and indie rock, to go with burgers, shakes and fries, courtesy of resident "music guy" Josh Pressman. "Meet Me in the City" Junior Kimbrough "Oh Well (Live at the BBC)"...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well here we are -- in the final furlong before the April 24 primary. Can't you just feel the electricity in the air? The buzz building before the dramatic face-off between a pack of charismatic......

Willis Earl Beal wandered through most of his 28 years on the planet without a steady job or much direction until his loneliness become so consuming that he began to sing. Now he finds himself as a labelmate of Radiohead, M.I.A. and Adele. His debut album...

The 2012 Lollapalooza lineup to be announced Wednesday reaffirms that the culture of DJs and electronic artists is catching up with rock as a live attraction on the lucrative summer festival circuit.  Two of the rock headliners for the Aug. 3-5...

The booking of Pulp, with its ‘Common People' anti-1% screed, typifies Coachella '12. One of the great, universal rock anthems of the last two decades — Pulp's “Common People” — bypassed the U.S. when it exploded out of...

Coachella's second day begins with some soft rock via Dan Bejar's Destroyer project. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts checks in....