Two-day twee and indie-pop festival the Windy Pop Weekender includes 90s favorites Rocketship, Dressy Bessy, and the Softies.

The title of the new album by Mike Reed’s the Separatist Party, Sing the Color Blue, may augur a synesthetic experience, but it only hints at the crisscrossing of signals that went into its making.

Even as Weaver moves around, he keeps Chicago with him. Like most of us who travel or relocate to another place, he often gets asked about Chicago’s reputation. “They’re like, ‘Oh, Chicago, it’s so ...

Texas-born, Chicago-based folk artist Marian Runk has a background as a cartoonist. That perspective informs her songs, which have a wistful, vivid, and discursive eye for detail. Her work recalls ...

Bitknot shows off Feeble Little Horse’s grasp of trip-hop, new age minimalism, and atmospheric video-game scoring.

September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four documentary short films by Palestine filmmakers, along with food, ...

French Police might be the fastest-growing Chicago band with such an underreported story. If you read Jocelyn Martínez-Rosales’s 2023 Reader piece about the band’s first tour of Mexico, through, ...

“My husband has a changed heart,” said Denise Bartik, who stood with a crowd of other advocates outside Governor J.B. Pritzker’s office in downtown Chicago on Thursday to call for compassion and a ...

Tim Kinsella was friends with Danny Belrose when Danny lived in Chicago, but this book is a novel, not a biography. Kinsella wasn’t a witness or participant, yet the book feels vivid and immediate, as ...

Seismic Waves recorded only demos, and just a few songs ever got released. But these rowdy pranksters' anything-goes spirit ...

Keep some dreams just for yourself.