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- Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 15, 2020
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Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang livestream their traditional solstice duo
Plus: Che Arthur of Pink Avalanche drops two instrumental solo EPs, and reunited posthardcore band Cinco de Gatos finally release an album they recorded in 1995.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 25, 2020
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A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern
For decades, this cozy candlelit bar in Bucktown nurtured a devoted and welcoming community of music lovers—but it couldn’t survive the pandemic.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2020
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing its traditional huge outdoor affair with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 23, 2020
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Reunion Chicago, Slo ’Mo, and Open Television throw a three-night virtual Pride party
Plus: Brent Gutzeit of TV Pow assembles a massive compilation to benefit the fight for racial justice, and rapper Roy Kinsey teases a new single with an all-star cast of Chicago women.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 25, 2020
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The Chicago Underground Quartet bottle their lightning again
For 19 years, their first album was their only album—but now longtime collaborators Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, and Chad Taylor have recaptured the group’s freewheeling jazz spirit.
- Music, Music Review Mar 13, 2020
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Former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki still diving into impromptu moments
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
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Saxophonist Dave Rempis builds a band with the stamina for deep dives
The lively quartet this Chicago mainstay brings to the festival finds the meditative heart of free improvisation.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 17, 2019
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Natural Information Society make the stage a home—and vice versa
Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado help give this Chicago collective’s transcendent minimalism a family feeling.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 28, 2019
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Chicago jazz hero Joshua Abrams and his Natural Information Society bottle hypnosis on Mandatory Reality
- Music, Concert Preview Aug 9, 2018
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Chicago jazz mainstay bassist Joshua Abrams switches gears with a rigorously visceral new solo album
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 16, 2018
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Pitchfork outflanks its festival competition with left-field bookings
Circuit des Yeux, Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Irreversible Entanglements, and This Is Not This Heat don’t sell tickets like Fleet Foxes, but they help keep Pitchfork interesting.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2018
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Chicago musical polymath Ben LaMar Gay breaks even his own shape-shifting mold on his solo debut
Ben LaMar Gay took seven years to make Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun, which fuses R&B, funk, jazz, electro, Brazilian music, and more.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 27, 2017
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Chicago bass clarinetist Jason Stein isn’t kidding around
Not even arena gigs with his famous sister, comedian Amy Schumer, can tempt him from his drive to make better jazz.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 6, 2017
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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival
This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 1, 2017
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With Natural Information Society, Joshua Abrams expands his sonic palette while remaining locked-in on modal trance
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2017
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The Jazz Record Art Collective celebrates the music of Ornette Coleman onstage
New quartet Garden of Souls plays Ornette Coleman's 1968 albums New York Is Now! and Love Call on Wednesday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2017
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Check out some deep 60s funk from the Crescent City
Mary Jane Hooper's obscure jam "I've Got What You Need" features unfuckwithable playing by great New Orleans drummer James Black.
- Music, In Rotation Aug 23, 2016
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Now Is Podcast host Ben Remsen on the jazz giants who walk among us
Plus: Axons drummer Amanda Kraus on a program for percussionists and the people who love them, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Horseback’s latest weird trip, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2015
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A must-see free-jazz trio begins its February residency at the Owl this weekend
The three-piece will be recording a live record over the course of the month.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 23, 2014
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Our favorite music of 2014
Six Reader writers go deep with specialized year-end lists that do more than just put the same records in a different order.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2014
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Track premiere: Local drummer Makaya McCraven's 'Three Fifths a Man'
A sneak preview of the drummer's forthcoming album on the new International Anthem imprint
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Thu 7/3: Eyes to the Skies festival, International Festival of Life, and Singleman Affair
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, July 3.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 1, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: Riot Fest lineup predictions
Plus: For Practically Everyone Records revs up for spring, and Secret Colours drop the second half of a new album.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Wed 1/29: Nobunny, the Trial of Orestes, and Dave Rempis, Joshua Abrams, and Avreeayl Ra
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, January 29
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2014
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Best shows to see: Weyes Blood (canceled), Dave Rempis
The best shows to see on Mon 1/27 through Wed 1/29
