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Four writers from around these parts on how music changed their lives, with Nirvana as the common thread.

As Chicago’s Alternative leaves the airwaves, fans mourn it and their own passing youth, and discuss the future of how we relate to music and the people who bring it to us.

Legendary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki leads the Grant Park Orchestra this weekend in his divisive Concerto grosso and Beethoven’s Eroica symphony.

Wild Nothing, White Mystery, Austra, Syd tha Kid, and others are all worthy options after you go to the festival, or if you don’t go at all.

Coverage of this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival has centered around LA hip-hop weirdos OFWGKTA. Here’s why some people hate them, some people love them, and why they’re both right… and right to care.

The noise-rocker turned piano balladeer returns to an old haunt for a free show of songs from her upcoming album tonight.