The Intonation Music Festival opened its gates at Chicago's Union Park over the weekend (July 16-17) and managed to achieve a goal for all first-year festivals: it sold out. By Billboard Staff The ...

Music has always meant community to me. I moved around too much as a kid. I went to four schools for eighth and ninth grade, but I could always find somebody who abused black eyeliner like I did, ...

Beverly Croffert, of Chicago, knows that the family that plays music together, stays together. She showed her commitment to her family and music by participating late January in the Intonation Music ...

Last year’s inaugural Intonation Music Festival was a collaboration between indie-rock Web site Pitchfork, concert promoter and musician Mike Reed, and event-planning company Skyline Chicago, but ...

Intonation may not be throwing festivals in Union Park anymore, but they are still very active in the Chicago music scene, just on a smaller level, as in with smaller people. Now Intonation Music is a ...

The road back to Intonation was unexpectedly bumpy. The Intonation Music Festival returns to Union Park this weekend with 26 acts for a bargain price: $20 a day ($35 two-day passes were advance-sales ...

2005 - The Intonation Music Festival opens its gates at Chicago's Union Park and manages to achieve a goal for all first-year festivals: it sells out. Headliners included the Decemberists, Tortoise… ...

More than 200 students have studied with the Intonation Music Workshop, an afterschool program that teaches kids about rock and pop music. Executive director Mike Simmons hopes to bring an “all-access ...

Certain instruments lend themselves more readily to unorthodox tunings. The guitar, for example, is an instrument tailor-made for alteration, with artists like Joni Mitchell creating dozens of altered ...

Nearly three-dozen acts converged on Chicago’s Union Park this past weekend (June 24-25) to provide two days of live music for the annual Intonation Music Festival. Headlined by the Streets and Bloc ...