Wednesday, August 3, 2022
On the evening of Thursday, June 30, dozens of young Black dancers gathered on the Chicago Riverwalk across from the Merchandise Mart. At 9 PM that night, Art on the Mart, which bills itself…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:32PMTuesday, August 2, 2022
Singer and guitarist Fernando de Buen López moved to Chicago from Mexico City in 2012 with his band El Mañana, who released one more album of jangly, psychedelic indie rock in 2014 before …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:01PMA couple weeks before Lifeguard played Horsegirl’s record-release show at Thalia Hall in June, I ran into drummer Isaac Lowenstein and bassist Asher Case while walking through the Logan Sq…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, July 28, 2022
Emerging Chicago rapper Christopher Horace charmed me a couple years ago with the first EP he released as F.A.B.L.E., (IX) The Hermit. His downy voice makes his playful raps sound more intim…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 27, 2022
On Monday, August 1, jazz trombonist Jeb Bishop will move back to Chicago after a ten-year absence. Bishop and his wife headed to North Carolina in spring 2012 (Carrboro and later Durham) an…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:01PMThursday, July 21, 2022
In 2017, foundational Chicago footwork collective and record label Teklife dropped On Life, a compilation highlighting all the producers in its wider family. That record became a series, and…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
What would you do with 22.4 pounds of treats?
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:48AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Northwest Indiana’s punk scene would be a lot less thrilling without Mat Williams—he’s been the engine behind many of the local bands whose names have filled homemade gig flyers around…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:00PMChicago’s newest record store specializes in all things metal. Meteor Gem occupies a garden-level boutique at 3082 N. Elston, and its stock is so laser-focused on extreme music—including…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:46PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Even in a city full of talented artists with their fingers in a half dozen projects at once, Marvin Tate stands out as a Renaissance man. The west-side native is extraordinarily industrious …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:52AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Conor Mackey plays guitar in postrock group Monobody, which is how you know he has unpredictable energy—any musician tasked with creating rogue jazz flourishes and postmetal freakouts whil…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, July 7, 2022
It’s music festival season again, and of course we’re still in the middle of a pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 222.3 million U.S. residents are ful…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:22PMAfter nearly two years on electronic monitoring, Jeremey “Mohawk” Johnson’s ankle bracelet is finally off.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMFor more than a decade, Chicago multi-instrumentalist and engineer Jake Acosta has been a key player in a loose federation of subversive musicians. He’s done a lot of crucial work running …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, July 6, 2022
Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist Sam Thousand moved to Chicago from Texas in 2009, and within a year he’d joined hip-hop fusion outfit Sidewalk Chalk. He’s since become deep…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:41PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
Gossip Wolf has been on the record as a fan of Lollygagger since the local glam-punk goofballs dropped their debut EP, Life on Terminus, in 2018. The band followed it in 2020 with the hilari…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:27PMFriday, 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.
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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 07:00AM 
