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Best all-girl mosh pit - Chicago Reader
Scarlet Demore frontwoman Cat Ayala creates a powerful moment during their performances by clearing…
Best new reason to visit Austin Town Hall Park - Chicago Reader
The Chicago Blues Museum has opened a new permanent exhibit at Austin Town Hall Park that highlight…
Best improvised music and dance happening - Chicago Reader
Freedom From and Freedom To is a cross-medium artistic happening that has been created and curated …
Best emerging antifolk artist with a song built around a buzzing alarm clock - Chicago Reader
Chicago-based artist described as an emerging antifolk performer who combines power-pop melodies wi…
Best place to try out your act with the most supportive audience - Chicago Reader
Stop Motion Plant has been operating as a performance space in Chicago since 2019, offering a suppo…
Best monthly party where you can smoke the whole garden, eat free food, and watch some of Chicago's best MCs - Chicago Reader
Rich Jones and ShowYouSuck have created a monthly party in Chicago that celebrates the independent …
Best sober-focused music series - Chicago Reader
Matt Ciarleglio advocates for sober-focused music series in Chicago, emphasizing that artists can r…
Best Ravenswood barber who can give you a sharp cut while regaling you with tales of drumming at the Fireside in the 90s - Chicago Reader
Northside Barbershop in Ravenswood features a barber with punk rock credentials who drummed at the …
Best ambient techno microlabel specializing in small-run lathe-cut records - Chicago Reader
A Chicago-based microlabel has quickly established itself by releasing carefully curated ambient te…
Best choir for people looking to get back into music - Chicago Reader
A free, non-audition choir in Chicago welcomes people wanting to return to music. While choral expe…
Best new bookstore to score vintage books on hippies, drugs, promiscuity, and everything else good and evil - Chicago Reader
Perpetual Books is a new Chicago bookstore specializing in vintage and counterculture materials, in…
Memory Card releases an unforgettable album of patchwork indie rock - Chicago Reader
Memory Card has released a new patchwork indie rock album that's being praised as unforgettable. Th…
Electronic composer Steve Hauschildt returns to his old stomping grounds to celebrate his latest album, Aeropsia - Chicago Reader
Electronic composer Steve Hauschildt is returning to Chicago to celebrate his latest album, Aeropsi…
Shabaka embraces a world of musical tradition through spiritual jazz - Chicago Reader
Shabaka Hutchings released his second solo album ‘Of the Earth’ on March 3rd, marking the debut rel…
Skaiwater exemplifies chameleonic contemporary pop rap - Chicago Reader
Skaiwater is an artist known for their versatile and ever-changing approach to music, refusing to b…
Chicago alt-country upstarts National Photo Committee come in Red Hot - Chicago Reader
National Photo Committee is a Chicago-based alt-country band that has been active since before the …
Laura Pleasants of Kylesa turns from psychedelic metal to gothy postpunk in the Discussion - Chicago Reader
Laura Pleasants, guitarist and vocalist from psychedelic metal band Kylesa, has launched a solo pro…
Peaches wants to liberate everybody with No Lube So Rude - Chicago Reader
Peaches, known for her 2000 breakout album The Teaches of Peaches, continues her advocacy for femin…
Kaicrewsade has grown into one of Chicago’s best young rappers - Chicago Reader
Kaicrewsade has emerged as one of Chicago's most promising young rappers through his recent release…
Miersten Wolf explores memory, dreams, and Chicago's water management history - Chicago Reader
Steven Mosqueda creates a musical production for Drinking & Writing Theater that combines his f…
Kelly Deasy, cofounder of booking agency Outer/Most - Chicago Reader
Kelly Deasy, cofounder of booking agency Outer/Most, discusses her passion for live music and how w…
Digital hardcore artist Dicqbeats declares war on normal with Dicqbroke - Chicago Reader
Digital hardcore artist Dicqbeats released Dicqbroke last year, an album that begins with a retro s…