DCASE launched the Chicago House Music Fest at Pritzker Pavilion on Memorial Day weekend in 2018, after several years of ...

Seth Boustead speaks on how ACM's view of classical music as a living tradition informs its Thirsty Ears Festival and its new ...

Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus ...

Milou Moon is the project of Emily McGill, a French American originally from Chicago who has lived partly in Melbourne, ...

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2000 play about faith and punishment, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, feels newly relevant at City Lit ...

Xerobot are also touring again. In December, they dropped a marvelous video of their first rehearsal in 25 years, where they ...

On their newest, relatively somber songs, Stiebris and Waller repackage the intensity of their earlier material ...

Multidisciplinary artist Katrin Schnabl works across fashion design, installation, performance, and sculpture, among other ...

Formed in Liverpool in 2006, UK trio Conan called their slow-moving, sludgy style “caveman battle doom,” and its colossal down-tuned guitars hit with the subtlety of the Chicxulub impactor.

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For its second installment, Future Folk Festival heads to Austin Town Hall for an evening of music led by two latter-day members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a crucial ...