Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

In 2025, Lila Iké released her debut full-length album, Treasure Self Love, where she processes her past and embraces her journey toward self-acceptance.

This idea of rupture, spiritual penetration, functions as an apt descriptor of “Organgrinder,” Pfeiffer’s show now up at M.

While Morgan Garrett is an experimental singer-songwriter and Gloorp (aka Garrett Burke) is a dance-music producer and ...

New publications like Gab, Write That Down, the pub, The Issue, and more are invoking the long history of creating outside mainstream media.

Herr God are named after a line from Sylvia Plath’s poem "Lady Lazarus,” which channels female rage and decries the ...

NightFreak's tighter sound helps a lot on Midwest Rattlesnakes, where they double down on their love of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Director Seph Mozes and actor Zoë Christine Rutherford talk about bringing Oscar Wilde's symbolist tragedy to a church ...

For the past couple years, Chicago electronic artist Anne Helen Wells has been working on pulsating, sugary tracks that ...

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

Garage rockers the Huns met as grade-school friends and released one single in 1966. Now they're playing their first ...

Playing just twice as sneak peek screenings at the Music Box Theatre on June 11, Michael Mann’s Manhunter: The Final Cut ...