Born Ivanna Alexandra Martinez, singer and rapper Lexa Gates was raised in Puerto Rico and in Queens, New York, where she ...

Drill rapper G Herbo didn’t need to book Wintrust Arena for his 30th birthday party to demonstrate his status as one of Chicago hip-hop’s greatest exports. Herb’s stardom seemed assured from the ...

Alabama-born rapper Pink Siifu takes a loose, fluid approach to lots of things—including his musical style and the general idea of authorship.

While his previous bands were rooted in the raw, fiery rock and postpunk James Weir loved as a teen, his new project, Blue Earth Sound, draws on the diverse music he discovered as he developed his ear ...

Electric Citizen is the brainchild of guitarist Ross Dolan and singer Laura Dolan, high school sweethearts who married and formed their dream band.

A wounded woman vet tries to reintegrate with her family and past with the aid of virtual reality in Shattered Globe's Ugly Lies the Bone.

In Belt Publishing's The Rockford Anthology, photographs, essays, and poems help a reader can begin to understand the city.

Andrew Ortmann’s long-running, collaborative Panicsville project has traversed countless confounding musical paths across ...

Coyotes, bats, moths, raccoons, deer, and more: an exploration of the city’s dusk-till-dawn wildlife and the humans who study ...

Chicago rapper Thirteendegrees° is a key member of an underground movement that decenters drill in favor of what he calls ...

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

Trap Door's revival of Amiri Baraka's absudist and allegorical Dutchman from 1964 is raw, poetic, and confrontational.