“Salutations!,” the actor Samuel L. Jackson, dressed as Uncle Sam introduced Kendrick Lamar at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome for the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show — a powerful, commanding creative choice by the first solo hip-hop artist to ever headline the coveted slot.
Category: Music and Concerts
Taylor Swift makes her Super Bowl return to watch Travis Kelce and his Chiefs face the Eagles
Taylor Swift was back at the Super Bowl to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs try to complete a historic championship three-peat against her home state Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
Here’s your Super Bowl celebrity lineup, from Taylor Swift’s (possible) guests to hometown stars
Kendrick Lamar is just part of the celebrity vortex that has shifted to New Orleans. The brightest among them, Taylor Swift, is expected to be there Sunday.
Review: Soccer Mommy delivers a heartfelt if occasionally muffled concert at Thalia Hall
Soccer Mommy’s music is easy to fall in love with. It’s poignant and piercing — the kind of music you’d listen to during your most vulnerable moments as a young adult.
Ozzy Osbourne to reunite with Black Sabbath bandmates in Birmingham for ‘greatest’ show ever
Ozzy Osbourne will reunite with all of the original members of Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years, in a gig that will be his last and that’s being billed as the “greatest” heavy metal show ever, promoters said Wednesday.
Valentine’s Day concerts: Top 5 music picks from Justin Timberlake to an all-night dance party
Venues such as The Promontory, The Hideout and others offering dance parties, silent twerk-offs and everything else in between.
Today in Chicago History: ‘Grease’ is born in a converted trolley barn
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives.
Sueños Music Festival 2025: Shakira, Peso Pluma and Don Omar
Sueños is returning May 24-25 for its fourth consecutive year as a two-day festival of Latin music, with tickets on sale Thursday.
As ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ nears theaters, a look back at the pivotal shows the band played in Chicago — or almost did
A new documentary about the legendary British band opens soon. Its first Chicago gig was at Kinetic Playground in 1969, its last at Chicago Stadium in 1977.
Today in History: ‘The day the music died’
On Feb. 3, 1959, which would become known as “the day the music died,” rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.