Early-70s country-rock band JD, Foster & Eastman never released a song, but now you can finally hear how great their albums ...

Chicago crew Teklife formed in 2011, and they’ve thrived as an electronic dance collective, fashion brand, and record label ...

Here are a few more specific recommendations on Chicago-focused art books that came out this year, from art history to pure ...

Demetrius Amparan is a music artist and poet from the south side of Chicago. He is a nonprofit leader and father to daughters ...

A Jewish American playwright tries to unlock the story of her family's history in the Holocaust in The Berlin Diaries at Open ...

Owen Ashworth of Advance Base sets a new record in a horror-movie town, the Ramova Loft hosts the Bridgeport Sessions dance ...

Warped Tour ended in 2019 not with a full-blown national circuit but with three festivals in three cities. Two months ago, it announced that it would return with three more festivals in 2025.

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, ...

This collection of five pieces showcases the ambition and drive of rising composer Hannah A. Barnes; its sparse soundscapes use canonlike spiral patterns, nonlinear motion inspired by fungal ...

The Reader revisits a 1987 feature on iconic actor Robert Townsend that reads "like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations." ...

When the musical version of Legally Blonde first opened in 2007, I remember reading more than one comment from (straight) men I knew in theater bemoaning that it was just something dumb and fluffy ...