Friday, July 1, 2022
After D.C.-area rock group Two Inch Astronaut went on hiatus in 2018, Sam Goblin decamped for the midwest and began making music as Mister Goblin. He’s settled in Indiana, but to assemble …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:00PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
Legendary artist and writer (and onetime Chicago mayoral candidate) Cynthia Plaster Caster passed away in April after a lengthy illness, but Gossip Wolf isn’t done mourning. Future generat…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:31PMMonday, June 27, 2022
I can’t imagine summer in Chicago without the Chosen Few Picnic & Festival, and that’s not just because this grassroots house-music gathering is celebrating its 30th annual installme…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMFriday, June 24, 2022
In February, teenage Chicago indie rockers Dwaal Troupe contributed a tender, dusty tune called “Everyone Forgot but You” to Porcelain Songs, a 30-track compilation made by fans of enigm…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMThursday, June 23, 2022
Chicago dance-music veteran Ron Trent creates deep house that can keep a dance floor jumping for hours while simultaneously maintaining an intoxicating tranquility. Since the early 90s, Tren…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMBetween Drake’s sleepy Honestly, Nevermind and Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” a lot of people have something to say about house music lately. (And while I can’t say I have thoroughly …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMTuesday, June 21, 2022
Chicago postpunks Ne-Hi split in May 2019, and since then guitarist-singer Mikey Wells has expanded his palette of delightful pop hooks in two standout projects: Spun Out, which is indie dan…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:36PMMonday, June 20, 2022
Photos by Dylan Barnedo Since its launch as a one-day festival in 2018, Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash has grown into a three-day extravaganza that can go toe-to-toe with nationally recog…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 08:39PMWednesday, June 15, 2022
In 2015, when Chicago R&B wunderkind Ravyn Lenae was just 16, she self-released a sophisticated, vigorous EP called Moon Shoes, singing about romance and longing with the grace and lucid…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 14, 2022
Gossip Wolf has long admired local country-music craftsman Dan Whitaker, whose considerable discography includes folk-tinged solo work and recordings with his combo the Shinebenders that com…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:14PMThursday, June 9, 2022
Jeremey Johnson has chronicled nearly two years of pretrial house arrest.
The post 22 months appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Queer garage-pop band Bev Rage & the Drinks have become one of the city’s most entertaining acts since coming together in 2015. Mixing hilariously forthright lyrics, spitfire riffs, a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
In the 2010s, Rory Allen Phillip Ferreira became a national force in underground hip-hop rapping as Milo. He retired that name in 2018 and now performs as R.A.P. Ferreira, but the whimsical,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Guitarist and drummer Weasel Walter, the “brutal prog” purveyor best known as longtime leader of the Flying Luttenbachers, left Chicago in 2003 for San Francisco and later moved to New Y…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:20AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
Chicago trio Dehd sound like they’re trying to levitate by fusing the ineffable but often incompatible powers of frigid postpunk and wispy indie rock. Dehd are dedicated minimalists: their…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, May 27, 2022
In the past year or so, whenever a friend has asked me to recommend music, I’ve pointed them at Chicago multi-instrumentalist Jonn Wallen, who creates omnidirectional experimental electron…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, May 26, 2022
In July 2019, Chicago indie-rock trio Horsegirl played the eighth annual Square Roots Festival. At the time, live shows were the only way to hear the group’s taut but disarming dream pop, …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:25PMTuesday, May 24, 2022
In October 1982, members of seven LGBTQ+ concert and marching bands from across the U.S. met in Chicago and formed the Lesbian and Gay Band Association. Though the LGBA changed its name to t…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:24PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Gossip Wolf always likes to hear about a new solo album from a member of Ensemble dal Niente—the long-running local contemporary-classical corps has built a spotless reputation for adventu…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:18AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Chicago band Gentle Heat play no-nonsense indie rock that captures the allure of a towering blaze in the space of a single spark. On their new full-length, Sheer (Flesh & Bone), they pac…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
Eli Schmitt, 20, moved to Chicago a couple years ago to attend DePaul, where he studies journalism and art history. In that time he’s become a crucial connector in an emerging youth arts m…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:47PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Local four-piece Mystery Actions remind Gossip Wolf of the cool, slightly intimidating kids from the Chicago street-punk scene in the late 80s and early 90s, when it centered on Clark and Be…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 08:09PMI heard a lot about the glory days of the Fireside Bowl even before I moved to Chicago, and I loved the way the venue brought together bands from disparate subscenes with almost every show. …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Matthew Rachman Gallery documents the architectural creations of Chicago's ultimate outsider artist.
Last summer, Intuit began exhibiting nearly a dozen Wesley W…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM 
