Stop Traffic on Redding Road feels like a Pan•American record, it doesn’t feel like a solo Pan•American record.

Arty Chicago punk trio Background Character just celebrated five years as a band and they’re still just as eager to try new ...

Los Angeles songwriter Tchad Cousins, aka Urika’s Bedroom, is well acquainted with the sort of dreamy Alice in Wonderland–style aesthetic of 1960s psychedelic folk.

Guitars of one sort or another reign supreme on this double bill of local trios. Under the name 60 Strings, pedal steel guitarists Justin Brown, Jordan Martins, and Sam Wagster use technical purism to ...

A conservative journalist and father wrestles with the aftermath of the 2024 election and its effect on his relationships in The Day After.

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

The Pink Ladies got started somewhere between 1953 and 1955, depending on whom you ask, and lasted into the early 60s, with anywhere from a handful to nearly 50 members at any given time. Many of them ...

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.

The Reader revisits a 2014 feature on Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 after a career spanning seven decades.

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

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