Judging by the response from the crowded Pabst Theater this weekend, it had been too long since The Chieftains have visited Milwaukee. But the quintessential Irish band, which has been touring for some 48 years according to founding member Paddy Maloney, made up for its absence Saturday with a joyous reel of a program...

When Spoon’s Britt Daniel produced the White Rabbits’ latest album, It’s Frightening, he left his mark everywhere, weaving a pastiche of echoing pianos, disembodied guitar licks and snippets of studio chatter that he could have easily slapped his own name on and released as a Spoon album...

“Runaway Train” won Soul Asylum international stardom, props from President Bill Clinton and Winona Ryder’s phone number, so it’s understandable that in the mid-’90s the