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- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Nov 19, 2019
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Pieces of Peace cut most of their brilliant soul-funk for other people’s records
The only album this Chicago band made at sessions of their own didn’t come out till 35 years after they broke up.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 23, 2019
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Summoning the ghosts of Record Row
For two decades, a short stretch of Michigan Avenue hosted a concentration of creative entrepreneurship whose influence on Black popular music is still felt today.
- Music, In Rotation Sep 4, 2019
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Jay Wood of the Freesole collective on a rapper pushing the narrative of hip-hop
Plus: Freesole singer and songwriter S.O.S on a voice that can move you a dozen different ways, Reader intern Aaron Allen on rediscovering brown liquor music, and more
- Music, In Rotation Apr 2, 2019
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Latham Zearfoss of Chances Dances on a Solange album for the ages
Plus: artist Jen Delos Reyes on the messages in her automated Favorites Mix, Reader music listings coordinator Salem Collo-Julin on the best memorial to Moo & Oink, and more
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Aug 28, 2018
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Chicago producer Larry Sturm worked with Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley and Naked Raygun—just for starters
His influential career took him from house and punk to gigs for the likes of Prince, Destiny's Child, and Michael Jackson.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 2, 2018
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Defacing Michael Jackson uses a pop star and his fans as a metaphor for modern America
Five young people try their best to find a measure of grace in a society temperamentally unsuited to it.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2018
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How Jake Austen found the lost Jackson Five demo
A great piece of detective work uncovered a great piece of Chicago music history.
- Music, In Rotation Nov 15, 2016
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Billie Howard of Aperiodic on Sia’s stripped-down United Center show
Plus: Bow & Hammer violinist Kathryn Satoh on a classical piano duo that plays Taylor Swift, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on a record so evil it’s almost funny, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2016
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Former Hurt Everybody rapper-producer Supa Bwe focuses his powers as a solo artist on Dead Again 3
Supa is in peak form on the taut, minimal mixtape cut "Come Close (Get Away)."
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2014
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Follow DJ Spinn as he shops for records at Pitchfork
DJ Spinn talks about DJ Rashad and Michael Jackson in Pitchfork's record fair.
- Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2014
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Michael Jackson bounces back
A posthumous single that doesn't feel ghoulish.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track(s): RIP Frankie Knuckles, a megamix
An assortment of some of the departed house legend's greatest work
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2013
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Enya reenters the Hot 100 with help from Jean-Claude Van Damme
How old songs have begun competing on the Hot 100
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 20, 2013
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The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble's rite stuff
Choreographer Gábor Mihályi's group reinvigorates Eastern European folk dance.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 30, 2013
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Chicago Dance Crash commandeers The Cotton Mouth Club
The result is wall-to-wall dance, soundtracked by OutKast and Michael Jackson.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2012
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The Flipside: a party for audiophiles
This Saturday bring your favorite record to Town Hall Pub, play it for the masses, and maybe exchange numbers with a fellow music fanatic
- Music, In Rotation Nov 26, 2012
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In Rotation: Andrew Barber of Fake Shore Drive on Ma$e, Too $hort, and E-40
Plus: Miles Raymer on Scott Walker, MC Tree on Lucille Bogan, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2012
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Shows to see: Robbie Fulks, the Hecks, the Hussy, Claw Toe, and more
Shows to see in the upcoming days include Robbie Fulks, the Hecks, the Hussy, and Claw Toe
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 10, 2012
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Pop Sophocles and stormy Shakespeare: midsummer performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2012
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Alien Ant Farm invades Chicago
"Pop-Rock" band in town to record, apparently wants to bone your mom
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 21, 2012
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Bleader exclusive: Jackie Jackson speaks about the Jackson Five in Chicago
Jackie Jackson of the Jackson Five talks about the acts early days in Chicago as he prepares for Friday night's return home concert at the Star Plaza
- Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 26, 2012
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The kid is, in fact, my son
A Maori lad who worships Michael Jackson reunites with his deadbeat dad in Boy
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 16, 2012
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Will the 80s ever end?
The MCA's "This Will Have Been" suggests the answer is no
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2011
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The Weeknd drops a third great record in 2011
"Echoes of Silence," the third free record from the Weeknd this year, dropped today.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 10, 2011
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Who is Dancin' Man?
Perry Kanlan has shared stages with James Brown and the Jackson Five, and he's a familiar face to generations of south-side clubgoers. How did he get there?
