The jazz-trained musician was known for playing in '80s new wave bands like The Psychedelic Furs and The Waitresses, among other projects Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at ...

Tickets will go on sale this week for English post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs’ show on Maui in November. The band is making a stop on Maui during its Made of Rain 2022 Tour and will perform at the ...

Nov. 20 (UPI) --Grammy-nominated saxophonist Mars Williams, who filled the Chicago music scene with his live-wire sax sounds and toured as recently as last month with The Psychedelic Furs, died Monday ...

On this soupy, mid-October day, Rosehill Cemetery is eerily quiet, even for a graveyard. But inside May Chapel — the cozy, neo-Gothic chapel at its heart — Mars Williams is loud. One of Chicago’s most ...

After 29 years without an album, the members of the Psychedelic Furs were poised for a big return in 2020. While the global pandemic slightly altered release plans, it didn’t stop the group, which ...

When the Chicago Reader declared in 1997 that audiences “won’t find a busier saxophonist in Chicago than Mars Williams,” more evergreen words were scarcely written. Even in his 60s, Williams remained ...

The Psychedelic Furs may be made of rain, but this Sunday, the new wave rockers will be performing under the Costa Mesa sun. “Made of Rain” was officially 29 years in the making as the follow-up to ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Made of Rain” was officially 29 years in the making as the follow-up to the Psychedelic Furs’ seventh studio album, 1991’s “World Outside,” before it arrived in 2020. During that time, grunge, ...