After attending Oberlin Conservatory together, multi-instrumentalist Matt Gold and trumpeter and producer Will Miller both ended up in Chicago.

Texas singer-songwriter Edith Frost makes soulful fusions of country rock and folk in step with moody indie-country ...

If you’re young or young at heart, you’ll be overjoyed to know that the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash is returning for its sixth year, having survived the pandemic and a move from Douglass Park to ...

Backed by a revolving cast of musicians he calls the Nephews, TJ Kennedy belts out weathered, sloppy outlaw country, with an emphasis on odes to working and failing while ingesting various ...

In Kimberly Akimbo, a teenage girl with a progeria-like condition wrestles with mortality and a dysfuctional family.

Divyangi Shukla practices acts of great care for the damaged and the forgotten through sculpture, painting, and poetry.

Though he powered classics by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Chuck Berry, innovative drummer Fred Below is fading into obscurity.

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Samantha Crain's newest album has an unhurried energy and openness, and Crain broadens her folkie palette into more ...

This synth-heavy Chicago rock band make music for people who want to have fun even when they’re morbidly concerned about the ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the Joffrey offers some spectacular visions, but also raises questions of representation.

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