At 49, Brian Pelky is too young to remember the fun, friendly, rousing folk music boom of the 1950s and early 1960s — the era of well-scrubbed acoustic groups such as the Kingston Trio, the ...

Mash-up artist Girl Talk may have more than 300 samples on his new album, Feed the Animals, but creator Greg Gillis says that he has only 100 MP3s on his laptop. He's more interested in the bits and ...

Bruce Davis, president of the Salmon Creek Kiwanis Club, is more than a little nervous about the benefit concert his organization is hosting on the afternoon of Feb. 11, featuring The Trail Band of ...

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How do you make an artist? For Nika Nemirovsky, who performs under the name Niika, her artistic development took her from Uzbekistan to Rogers Park to Brisbane, Australia. And each stop, however short ...