The sculpture Sleep Sound, a motorized bed by Chicago artist Yalin Zhao, epitomizes contemporary sleep disruptions.

Chicago Reader staff writer Micco Caporale (they/them) is an award-winning journalist and Korn-fed midwesterner bouncing ...

Chicago hardcore group Stress Positions are sitting outside a watering hole in the Dutch city of Tilburg, but they’re not far enough from home that they don’t have fans around. A couple of Finnish ...

Third is a SouthSide born rapper and teacher with a deep affinity for words. As a lyricist and storyteller, Third is always ...

With classics and cult favorites, the Music Box Theatre's upcoming Sapphopalooza film series brings queer women to the front.

Bartees Strange is one of several high-profile musicians who’ve recently adopted a goth visual aesthetic, but his sound ...

His carefully crafted, artisanal style is rooted in reflective acoustic balladry, albeit with an undercurrent of simmering ...

Across their four studio albums, Wet invites listeners into a soulful dream world, and last month’s Two Lives is her most ...

At Union Station, Kohl and her ten-player ensemble will play a composition that will enable intentional and inadvertent ...

The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we need you to chip in, even if it’s ...

A glaciologist wrestles with personal trauma and global environmental catastrophe in Time Is a Color and the Color Is Blue.

When Adult. emerged out of late-90s Detroit, the city’s art-rock scene was dominated by the revival of protopunk and garage ...