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- Music, Chicagoans of Note Nov 27, 2020
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Nick Acosta, publisher of New Morality Zine
"I started my zine when I moved to Chicago. . . . I thought, 'What is something I can do by myself yet still contribute?'"
- Music, Music Feature Oct 28, 2020
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The life and death of Rancho Huevos
A Bridgeport DIY house that nurtured an antiauthoritarian community for nearly two decades stands vacant and slated for demolition.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 14, 2020
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Dave ‘Medusa’ Shelton was a fairy godmother to Chicago’s club scene
He didn’t just found the legendary Medusa’s—he also helped everyone in his orbit shine like a star.
- Music, Music Review Jul 27, 2020
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When the world feels barren, Chicago punk veterans the Lawrence Arms build hope
- Music, Music Feature Jun 23, 2020
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Chicago punk was born queer
How three gay bars—La Mere Vipere, O’Banion’s, and Oz—became the cradle of the city’s punk scene
- Music, Music Review Apr 24, 2020
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Orkesta Mendoza blends vintage sounds to create a groovy boogie-woogie border scene
- Music, Music Feature Apr 14, 2020
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Nnamdï grows up on Brat
The prolific musical polymath uses his new solo album to teach himself something about work-life balance.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 8, 2020
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The saga of Punkin’ Donuts
How a doughnut-shop parking lot became a confluence of Chicago youth subcultures—and what killed it off
- Music, Music Feature Mar 25, 2020
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La Armada transform adversity into community
With the EP series Songs of the Exiled, the Dominican-born hardcore band honor the cities they’ve called home on their journey to Chicago.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 14, 2020
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What turns kids punk?
The new musical Verböten uses the story of Jason Narducy’s forgotten early-80s band to talk about the power of subculture.
- Music, Concert Preview Dec 21, 2019
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Ian’s Party starts the year off right with three days of local bands
- Music, Concert Preview Dec 6, 2019
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Chicagoland foursome Mt. Pocono know what makes punk a life force
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 22, 2019
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Not Normal Tapes gives itself a year to live
Plus: Rabble Rabble reunite to benefit Resilience, and beat-scene mainstay Uncle El celebrates a new album at Emporium.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 25, 2019
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Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent
Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
- 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.
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 16, 2019
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At Pitchfork, all the world’s onstage
Cate Le Bon, Black Midi, Ibeyi, and Chai are among the acts from abroad at the festival this year.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 18, 2019
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Lithuanian American power poppers Dead Freddie defy their own demise
This short-lived 80s band put together a new lineup in 2011 and released their first album last year.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music May 7, 2019
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Obnoxious punks the Mentally Ill made history with ‘Gacy’s Place’
These Deerfield maniacs debuted in 1979 but didn't play live till 2007, when they helped celebrate a documentary about early Chicago punk.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 24, 2019
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Chicago punks Absolutely Not release a morbid, hilarious video for the brand-new ‘Bottom of the Pit’
"Bottom of the Pit" is the debut single from Absolutely Not's first album as a four-piece, the forthcoming Problematic—they've added Chris Sutter from Meat Wave on second guitar.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2018
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Chicago rockers share their Mutiny memories, foggy and otherwise
Eulogies for the notoriously debauched punk bar from members of Sweet Cobra, Montrose Man, the Functional Blackouts, and more
- Music, Music Feature Oct 10, 2018
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Punk’s not dead—and it’s not white either
The Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew connects underground music with radical politics to make a community with room for everyone.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 24, 2018
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Experimental musician Brett Naucke loses an album to hard-drive theft, starts making a new one
Plus: Threewalls hosts a multimedia performance inspired by Nina Simone and manic depression, and 80s thrashers Life Sentence reissue their debut.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 11, 2018
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Can Riot Fest turn nostalgia into a renewable resource?
Maybe it’s possible to book amazing reunions forever—but only by building current bands into tomorrow’s back-from-the-dead headliners.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2018
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Noise punks Running and jazzy folk guitarist Ryley Walker release an unexpected collaboration
Chicago weirdos Running and Ryley Walker are far-out in very different ways, but they find middle ground on a new instrumental tape.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2018
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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema
Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.