Plus: Rapper CantBuyDeem drops a video for “Benny the Butcher Owes Me $500,” and the Hideout hosts a livestream to benefit Chicago Community Jail Support.
The Ohmme cofounder spent years in a children’s choir that sang for the Dalai Lama—and she hopes to help such groups continue nurturing young musicians.
The Reader polled dozens of critics to arrive at an absolutely indisputable ranked list of several hundred records that will definitely not start any arguments.
The Chicago singer-songwriter’s debut album takes its strength from her favorite people: her friends and collaborators, her childhood mentors, her immigrant parents.
Plus: Dave Collis of Slow Mass on a group you shouldn’t avoid for their name, Reader writer Leor Galil on a new reissue by long-gone Chicago postpunks Algebra Suicide, and more
Plus: Macie Stewart of Ohmme on the beautifully epic new band that grew out of Cross Record, the Reader’s Peter Margasak on a trove of overdue Derek Bailey reissues, and more