Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

A half century ago, you might’ve expected a Bay Area band called World Peace to be an acid-fried hippie collective singing about their optimistic vision for the future and radiating goodwill toward ...

The Budos Band make their own zeitgeist. In the mid-2000s, the New York group’s early records created rich blends of Ethiopian jazz, Afrobeat, funk, and vintage soul. Those styles remain part of their ...

The titles of Magic Tuber Stringband’s records typically invoke the time or place in which they were made. The avant-folk trio wrote the 2023 album Tarantism under COVID restrictions in spring 2020, ...

Emmylou Harris has a way of making any song transmit vivid imagery and immediate emotion, whether it’s an original or a cover ...

The plot follows the work of the suffragist movement through the lens of two of its most prominent activists. Carrie Chapman Catt (Marya Grandy, deploying a belt that goes for blocks) is the “old ...

From June 25 to June 28, Synapse Arts presented 2026 New Works at Berger Park Cultural Center, featuring trace by Qū Jié 曲洁 ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

When I’m scrolling on Instagram, perusing party promo photos of people dancing in some south-side warehouse or West Town ...

The underappreciated musician’s musicians in Hushdrops have carried on through the tragic loss of drummer Joe Camarillo.

Last year, Chicago microlabel Black Dice Records started releasing small-run CDs by fringe screamo bands. The label has ...

Days after the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, residents of nearby South Shore and Washington Park are still fighting to stay in their communities. “I don’t stay in South Shore anymore ...