John Mayall

On “Drift,� his full-length debut, this Pasadena producer delivers an impressionistic but precise blur of tenebrous dub-step, glitch-hop and Warp Records electronica. Tonight he’s playing with chillwave producer Toro y Moi, and folktronic...

Blues rock icon John Mayall, soft rocker Edwin McCain, funk and soul jazz saxophonist Maceo Parker and 1980s heavy metal band Kix will play the planned Musikfest Café at SteelStacks in its first few months, ArtsQuest just announced. Also, the......

Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. today for the first of the shows at the new Musikfest Café at SteelStacks, the indoor concert venue being finished on former Bethlehem Steel property on the city’s South Side.......

More than a third of the concerts announced so far for ArtsQuest’s new Musikfest Café already are half full, with two months until the first public show and some shows as far as four months away. Yes front man Jon......

Here are the Top 5 Concerts for the coming week 1. THIN LIZZY A week after St. Patrick’s Day, it’s appropriate to have one of the greatest Irish bands of all time playing the area. Perhaps Thin Lizzy isn’t as......

Just 10 days before the Musikfest Café in the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks opens with its first public concert, none of the more than 65 shows it has scheduled so far has sold out, and only about a dozen have......

ArtsQuest’s new Musikfest Café will open to the public on Sunday (there will be an invitation-only show with 1970s rocker Steve Miller there Saturday), and now that 75 shows there have been announced to the public, I feel comfortable starting......

Al Jarreau, the only vocalist to win Grammy Awards in jazz, pop and R&B, will headline the 21st annual Berks Jazz Fest, March 25-April 3. Also among the fest’s 47 ticketed events at major venues, clubs and restaurants throughout Reading......

They came to West Hollywood on Monday night not to bury one of the celebrated figures in L.A. music's storied past, but to praise him. A few hundred family members, friends, former employees and just plain fans of Whisky A Go-Go co-founder Elmer...

Manchester, England If you live in Los Angeles long enough, you forget how intoxicating height can be. Here I was, 23 stories up in the coolest new hotel in northwestern England, looking across several counties and several centuries. The bar at the...

"The Ballad of Jack & Rose" couldn't be anything but a love story, but it's not one you'll be expecting. Powered by an exceptional performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, this artfully disturbing film is a compelling, imaginative look at the potent emotional...

Tom Petty performs at the United Center on July 2, 2008. (Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo) No one could blame Tom Petty for feeling a little entitled. After all, most rock stars who have been inducted into the Rock and......