Rock Music

The '80s hair band musical "Rock of Ages" at Community Players Theatre features the rare addition of a live band rocking out on stage with the cast.

REO Speedwagon, the American rock band with Central Illinois roots, plans to stop touring at the end of the year. Their final show in the region, with opening act Loverboy, was Saturday at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.

The chart-topping American rock band formed in 1967 in Champaign will play its final Illinois shows in November.

The band formed in the late 1990s and made a splash with their debut studio album but had been dormant for nearly a decade when they started writing new songs.

The lead singer and guitarist of the chart-topping Southern Rock band is on a month-long tour with bandmate Benji Shanks. They play a sold-out show Friday night at the Castle Theatre.

Options for keeping things mellow—or going full party-mode this New Year's Eve

Drummer Mike Felumlee of the Chicago rock band Smoking Popes moved to Bloomington three years ago. The band recently met at a West Bloomington recording studio to lay down tracks for a new album. Smoking Popes plays the Castle Sunday — the band's first Twin City show since 2019.

Shirley, Atlanta and McLean, IL teamed up to present a weekend of fun along the Mother Road, anchored by an art fair in Funks Grove.

Just as fall colors are about to pop and wildlife heads south, JWP Audubon hosts its final bird walk of the season.

Approaching its 50th anniversary, Robert Cray Band stops at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts for one night as part of a U.S. and U.K. tour promoting the 2020 album, "That's What I Heard."