These Black history figures are inspiring. It's about time they get the acknowledgment they deserve. Black History figures ...

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

The six-man soul group takes the stage Friday for its fifth annual “Hollyy-Days” show, with holiday covers and new songs.

The story of Chicago rock outfit Sybris is partly about the infrastructure of independent music and the networks that keep it ...

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Chicago and Styx will tour together next summer starting in July. The Windy Cities Tour - All The Hits…Your Kind of Tour is set to launch July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida and will continue through ...

We’re at the end of yet another year where commentators and fans speculated on the health of the rap world. In October, it was reported that, for the first time in 35 years, there were no rap songs in ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Styx's Tommy Shaw says he remembers getting “goose pimples” the first time he heard a Chicago record. “I couldn’t believe there was music that elaborate and soulful and it was still rock,” the ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Chicago and Styx, two bands that got their start in the Windy City, will play together for the first time on a national co-headlining tour that will stop at Northwell at Jones Beach Theater next ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...