Jon Langford News

"Face A Frowning World: An E.C. Ball Memorial Album" is an ambitious project. Even hard-core music fans may not know Ball, a gospel and country performer from the Virginia hills.

If you go ... Runs through Dec. 20. at Chopin Theater, 1543 W. Division Tickets start at $25 Call 773-251-2195 or visit thehousetheatre.com for more information.

Aventura, a popular, Grammy-winning group known for its update of traditional bachata music from the Dominican Republic, will be strutting its stuff in Rosemont.

Tex-Mex roots rocker Rosie Flores has teamed up with musician/producer/artist Jon Langford and his fine Pine Valley Cosmonauts to create one of the finest rockabilly records of the year.

Critics have praised the company for creating shows with the feverish excitement of rock musicians, and now it's finally teaming up with one: the Chicagoan Jon Langford.

PIPE DREAM Clarinetist Don Byron reconvenes the jazz combo behind his history-making if unlikely ode to klezmer king Mickey Katz.

The music and artwork of Jon Langford, founder of the legendary punk rock band The Mekons and Bloodshot Records recording artist, was the inspiration for our latest production, All the Fame of Lofty Deeds .

Trying to pin down "alt-country" as a cohesive genre is kind of like dredging a lake.

Founded by world-class music geeks and all-around swell Chicagoans Nan Warshaw and Rob Miller in 1994, Bloodshot Records has spent the last 15 years building a reputation as one of the most adventurous independent labels in America, with a catalog that far exceeds the narrow alternative-country box that some put it in, and a promising future even ...

The Waco Brothers, with members from the Northwest and West suburbs, have become known for their galvanizing live shows.

REHOBOTH BEACH - Better late than never. The Chicago-based alt-country act known as the Waco Brothers was originally supposed to perform at the Dogfish Head brewpub in downtown Rehoboth Beach back in 2007, but the date was among several on that year's tour which were canceled.

When you've been to heaven and back, what's left for a curious band? Apparently, the Mercury Lounge .

Tempted to go see the free show at Millennium Park tonight, SHELebration: A tribute to Shel Silverstein .