Rwake have always been a powerful live act, and the energy crackling from this heady album should be overwhelming when the ...

Stardust isn’t just a big stylistic swing from a veteran rapper—it also shows us what can happen when Danny Brown finds a new source of energy and decides to see where it leads him.

On Facing’s brand-new album, Temporary Bodies, Ferme maintains a similarly detached, chilly vibe, though the band’s sultry, atmospheric alt-pop gets much bigger and more rousing.

Desire courses through the latest album by Chicago industrial-pop trio Pixel Grip. On June’s Percepticide: The Death of Reality, the band’s dark electro taps into the explosive, thrilling immediacy of ...

In every setting, Chad Taylor’s propulsive grooves, deft decorations, and knack for shoring up a piece’s underlying forms enrich the music.

Set against the Chicago skyline, sculptures by Diane Simpson at the Art Institute are geometric siblings to their urban environment.

The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—even as it continues to spread a ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

The modernist abstractions of Korean artist Kim, Jung Soo wander through downtown Chicago in two recent series.

Music of the Mind” at the MCA, you’ll encounter the artist at the epicenter of the avant-garde again and again.

Organizers tell the Reader it’s often difficult to figure out who agents took. Sanchez recalls searching two abandoned cars ...

The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks ...