Shellac (music group)

This is one of those “Wow!” weeks for Chicago music fans, as two performers with a rich history in this city's edgy music scene are out and about, making noise. Helen Money People first got a glimpse of cellist Alison Chesley when she was...

Anthology of American Folk Music Night to benefit the Connecticut Food Bank Hosted by Elisa Flynn and Lys Guillorn Fri. Nov. 30, 9 p.m., Café Nine, 250 State St., New Haven, (203) 789-8281, cafenine.com, 21+, $6   Some things just keep...

Shellac: Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer have been making music together for 20 years. They’re working on a fifth studio album, so expect some new songs, as well as an array of top-notch musical guests at this three-night residency,...

Lounge Ax, the late, great Lincoln Avenue rock club that hosted countless indie-rock stalwarts during the '90s before its demise in 2000, will throw a retrospective party Aug. 10-11 that will reunite some of the regulars, personalities and bands who...

Jonathan Ward's ‘Opika Pende' box set resurrects the world of early African music — with a history lesson in the mix. Jonathan Ward's music room in his second-floor Angeleno Heights walk-up is a tight, comfortable space with three walls full.....

Times pop music critic Randall Roberts looks at 10 essential 2011 reissues....

Screaming Females' fifth album "Ugly" sees singer Marissa Paternoster howling with tortured bitterness that she "can't unwind," and then sees the band attempting to find 14 ways to illustrate coming-of-age anxiety. The Times' Todd Martens talks to the...

Saturday was a busy day. There was the book festival and Legacy Chase and Big in Japan and Height with Friends, and the list goes on and on. Where were you? Did you make it to the Deadmau5 show in Silver Spring earlier in the week? How did it compare to...

72 Hours: Zelda, the War on Drugs, Robyn among top weekend gigs. The weekly Pop & Hiss rundown of the weekend's top concerts....

About an hour south of Washington, D.C., deep beneath rolling hills near the verdant Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, lies a storehouse filled with bounty. At one time, during the Cold War, that treasure was cash — about $3-billion worth —...

At one time, Robbie Fulks probably wouldn’t have been on the short list of artists most likely to do a sincere – much less sincerely great -- Michael Jackson tribute. As the songwriter says, “My style is to take things......