Syd Ross resists tidy categorization, but as an artist they’ve made contributions that echo throughout Chicago’s creative avant-garde. Ross, 35, has been vibrating in the city’s background since ...

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.

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

In 1995, the Smashing Pumpkins were one of the biggest bands in the country. The Chicago alt-rock outfit caught fire with their 1991 debut, Gish, and broke into the mainstream with their 1993 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

Over the past year, Jiashun Zhou completed his most ambitious work yet—a quartet of floor loom weavings that envision an idyllic building.

Links Hall was originally Link’s Hall, named for John J. Link, the dentist who built it in 1914 and emblazoned his name in the plaster above the front door. Links Hall was an empty room above a ...

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