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- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 2, 2019
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Believable: changing the story on how plays address violence against women
The fall theater season has brought several shows about women surviving trauma—and reclaiming their stories.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Aug 27, 2019
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Subversive art-punks Möc Artsy existed mostly on cassette tapes
This stubbornly strange duo gigged only in their apartment, and only one song survives from their hours of bizarre recordings.
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 24, 2019
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‘This is my home’
Woodlawn residents share their vision for a neighborhood in transition
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 3, 2019
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Dyke March
What does Dyke March mean to you?
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 17, 2019
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A grandfather's life in images
Portraits and archival photographs evoke a long journey.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2018
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When the blues electrified Chicago
The streets and sounds of the city in '60s come alive in new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum.
- Music, In Rotation Nov 15, 2017
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John Becker of Vaskula on the best gothic rock being recorded today
Plus: Plague Bringer’s Greg Ratajczak on music for flipping tables, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Inuit vocal games, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 11, 2017
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Vintage spiritual free jazz from the great Albert Ayler is back in circulation
The Swiss label Hatology continues to keep the work of the singular saxophonist in print.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2017
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Corbett vs. Dempsey reissue another free-jazz classic from the FMP catalog
The searing 1973 trio record King Alcohol collides European aesthetics and the probing free jazz of New York's peak "new thing" years.
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2017
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At long last the African music from Ali and Foreman’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ sees release
The dazzling two-CD set Zaire 74: The African Artists presents electric performances from Congolese musical royalty and South African legend Miriam Makeba.
- Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2017
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Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger and local trio ZRL present new strains of free improvisation
French-Austrian duo Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger and Chicago trio ZRL highlight this weekend's options for adventurous live music.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2017
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Mike Love and the Dizz on the rise and fall of WGCI’s Bad Boy Radio and the birth of the Birthday Line
Mike Love and the Dizz launched Bad Boy Radio on WGCI in 1997, and their show's decade-long run created cultural touchstones that still bring black Chicagoans together.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2017
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Bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten gives a rare solo acoustic performance Monday
Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten stays busy in collaborations on both sides of the Atlantic, but he plays alone on this visit to Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 31, 2017
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Guitarist Stephane Wrembel plays Django and himself at the Green Mill
Jazz manouche devotee Stephane Wrembel salutes genre's founder even while departing self-consciously from his sound.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2017
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75-year old folkie Michael Hurley rises to the top at Big Ears
The quirky songwriter delivered my favorite set during a busy weekend in Knoxville.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2017
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Prankish Dutch drummer Han Bennink veers toward the lyrical on his new trio album
On the new Adelante, prankish percussionist Han Bennink indulges in his trademark creative disruption while his bandmates revel in melodic beauty.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2017
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Ernest Dawkins and Vijay Iyer blend seamlessly through the common language of jazz
Saxophonist Ernest Dawkins and pianist Vijay Iyer bring their collaboration from the new Transient Takes to Constellation this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2017
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Multireedist Ned Rothenberg kicks off a new season of the Option series; pianist Misha Mengelberg dead at 81
The reedist plays two concerts in Chicago, and the Dutch pianist leaves behind a remarkable legacy
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2017
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Eugene Chadbourne’s paradigm-smashing There’ll Be No Tears Tonight is back in print
Corbett vs. Dempsey's record label reissues Eugene Chadbourne's mind-warping 1980 collision of free improv, country music, and bebop.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2017
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Saxophonist Anna Webber turns to the Internet to inspire music for her Simple Trio
Her recent album Binary uses code, patterns, and transliteration to create music.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 8, 2017
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Chicago musicians speak up about the Affordable Care Act
Before the ACA, musicians were uninsured at more than twice the average rate—and with Trump pushing a repeal, they’re already suffering.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Nov 15, 2016
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Overlooked guitar god Harvey Mandel borrows Ryley Walker’s band for his new album
Forty-seven years after Harvey Mandel played Woodstock with Canned Heat, Snake Pit could be the record that finally gets the guitarist his due.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2016
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Bassist John Lindberg drops two new trio albums
The veteran bassist performs in town this weekend with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2016
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A busy week in jazz with Joe McPhee, Tim Stine, and the Cookers
Over the next week Chicagoans can see shows by a free-jazz pioneer, an emerging guitarist with an original sound, and a supergroup connected the heyday of hard bop.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2016
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An out-of-print experimental gem from drummer Phillip Wilson gets new life
Corbett vs. Dempsey continues to reissue overlooked, out-of-print treasures from the Hat Hut catalog.
