The Noise News

But what of the comebacks that fizzled, or just weren't all that? The ones where rappers, rockers, and underground titans strutted back into the limelight -- and we all just sort of shrugged, or worse yet, barely even noticed? The Breeders.

A popular local art festival that took place last spring is returning for the holiday season.

Bruce Hornsby -- "You can count on two or three hands the amount of people who have had lengthy, lengthy runs as Top 40 artists.

THE BRAVERY The postmodern rockers are touring in advance of their third album, "Stir the Blood,'' out Nov.

The premiere local production of "Rent," the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical by the late Jonathan Larson has come to Des Plaines' Prairie Lakes Theater.

AN exclusive preview of a comedy double act, set to hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, is on tomorrow .

While all the world's a stage, the question in the coming weeks will be: How much of a stage is New Orleans? When White Noise: A Cautionary Musical opens at Le Petit Theater du Vieux Carr on July 9, it will be the first theater production to take advantage of the state's live performance tax credit program.

MUSIC from around the world will be celebrated as part of a city centre festival being held for the first time next month.