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- Music, Music Review Apr 2, 2021
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Tomahawk return with more top-tier avant-garde noise-rock
- Music, Music Review Feb 26, 2021
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Archie Shepp and Jason Moran turn tradition into new challenges on Let My People Go
- Music, Music Review Nov 18, 2020
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Jordan Reyes blends ritual, electronics, and western vibes on Sand Like Stardust
- Music, Music Review Aug 28, 2020
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The Fire Still Burns as veteran jazz saxophonist Alan Braufman builds on his comeback
- Music, Music Review Aug 18, 2020
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Imperial Triumphant’s Alphaville soundtracks our civilizational suicide by capitalism
- Music, Music Review Jul 8, 2020
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New York metal outfit Pyrrhon confront our harrowing reality on Abscess Time
- Music, Music Review May 15, 2020
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TALsounds makes ambient music we can only dream of on Acquiesce
- Music, Music Review Mar 27, 2020
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Spend quality time in quarantine with your new favorite Chicago albums
Close your eyes and picture yourself at your favorite local venue while listening to these new releases.
- Music, Music Review Mar 26, 2020
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Cellist Helen Money explores grief on her meditative new album, Atomic
- 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, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jul 2, 2019
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Drummer Kahil El’Zabar elevates groove to a transcendent plane
The leader of the Ritual Trio and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is also a teacher, a connector, and an ambassador for Afrocentric jazz.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 10, 2019
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions play free jazz two centuries deep
The members of this underappreciated ensemble bring vast and varied experience to their regular weekly shows—which follow no rules but their own.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2018
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Five masters of stop-motion animation
If you like the Czech animations by Jiri Trnka showing this month at Film Center, try out these other five greats of nontraditional animation.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2017
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This week’s Frequency Festival finds points of contact between classical, jazz, and the avant-garde
The concert series booked by the Reader's Peter Margasak throws its second annual six-day festival of boundary-erasing music.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Nov 23, 2016
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First-wave Chicago punk weirdos Silver Abuse released their second reunion album this year
In the late 70s and early 80s, Silver Abuse shared members with Naked Raygun—and their eclectic, discordant music was in some ways even more confrontational.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2016
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Avant-garde pioneer Pamela Z brings her otherworldly vocal manipulations to Constellation
Pamela Z performs a series of "pop-song length" pieces on Saturday, showcasing the layered, polyrhythmic vocal processing she helped introduce to experimental music.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2015
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Remembering God Is My Co-Pilot: 'We're here / We're queer / We're gonna fuck your children!'
Given all the 90s nostalgia going around, playfully avant-garde NYC queercore band God Is My Co-Pilot definitely deserve their share.
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2013
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Discovering the early avant-garde sounds of eclectic composer Joseph Byrd
A terrific new collection of early works by the eclectic American composer Joseph Byrd, who founded the late 60s psychedelic rock band United States of America, has been released by New World Records.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Feb 26, 2013
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In "Destroy the Picture," a violent attack on the canvas
Abstract artists slice, shoot, and burn in the MCA's new exhibit, a collection of impassioned responses to World War II.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2008
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Phill Niblock this Saturday at Lampo
Get cozy with Phill Niblock's thick drones at Lampo on Saturday.
- Music, Critic's Choice Sep 6, 2007
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Adventures in Modern Music