Last night, Phil Lesh & Friends performed at the Sacred Rose Festival in Bridgeview, Illinois. Lots of familiar faces joined the Friends, including Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and guitarist Nels Cline, plus Dead & Company’s Jeff Chimenti, Karl Denson, John Molo, Stu Allen, Grahame Lesh, and Elliott Peck. Together, they f...

LORI is a new four-song collection from Iron & Wine comprising covers from the Lori McKenna songbook. Sam Beam recorded it in Memphis at Sam Phillips Studios with producer Matt Ross-Spang. Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart of the Chicago band Finom (formerly Ohmme) feature on all four tracks — and yes, sorry to the bury the lede, but ...

The disgraced R&B singer is on trial in Chicago facing child pornography chargesThe post Woman testifies she was abused by R. Kelly in infamous sex tape, had sex “hundreds” of times when she was a minor appeared first on NME.

A 37-year-old woman identified only as “Jane” testified four four hours against R. Kelly today in Chicago’s federal courthouse. For the first time, she confirmed publicly that she had appeared on the tape at the center of Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial. The tape, which surfaced in 2002, depicted Kelly sexually abusi...

The singer went backstage after fans interrupted her attempts to make a speech, and did not appear at a scheduled meet-and-greetThe post LOONA’s KimLip leaves stage mid-concert in Chicago after fan chants interrupt her attempt to give a speech appeared first on NME.