Brea Fournier & the Dream Ballet's 2024 debut album is a borderline rock opera that mixes pop punk, indie rock, new wave, and alt-pop, with lyrics that relate a loose narrative of a manic pixie dream ...

Animated Australian psych rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are touring on their orchestral album Phantom Island, released in June via their p(doom) label.

Unlike some modern saxophonists, Patrick Shiroishi doesn’t emphasize the physicality of the instrument, but he does like to push its range.

This year's Lolla lineup is one of the worst in recent memory.

The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office’s openness under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke.

The writer, artist, philanthropist, and activist leaves a lasting legacy in Chicago's theater and LGBTQ+ communities.

At Comfort Station, Mauricio López F. presented “Wind Reenactment,” a solo show that utterly, magnificently fails to do what ...

Illinois basically has two regions: Chicago and “downstate.” Dense Chicago is reliably Democratic, whereas downstate skews ...

Dennis Kelly's solo play Girls & Boys traces the effects of misogyny within one family through the eyes of the mother.

Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, returns to Northlight Theatre in a stirring ...

The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we need you to chip in, even if it’s ...

Ju-Blick has long been recognized in the scene for his powerful flows, but he only finally stepped into music full-time in ...