Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...

These besties don’t let the challenging commute between Lincoln Park and Brighton Park keep them from slaying the day away together.

In Pandemonium, Please Hold on the Second City Mainstage, political grandstanding takes a back seat to unlikely encounters ...

The artworks in Mike Cloud and Nyeema Morgan’s “Story Structure, Pt. 2” at Neubauer Collegium are grounded in varying ...

Ragbagalia Fest aspires to build community while centering women, femmes, and queer people. This new daylong festival at ...

Norse gods battle it out in this rock musical, but good and evil isn't clear-cut in Lifeline's Loki—The End of the World Tour ...

Australian duo Armlock dress up straight-as-an-arrow forlorn indie rock with the kind of expertly deployed special effects that helped make Alex G famous—a guitar that sounds like it’s stuttering and ...

If you like a little homemade theater, a lot of silly gallows humor, and a twinge of danger in your punk rock, you might love Philadelphia band Evil Sword.

Alina Astrova, who makes music as Lolina, crafts avant-pop sound collages that defy expectations. Born in Russia and raised in Tallinn, Estonia, Astrova moved to London in 2006 to study arts criticism ...

Programmer Elizabeth Arnott discusses the next iteration of Sapphopalooza. The lesbian film series will return to the Music ...

Local filmmaker Johnny "MrLingoHimself" Jones is capturing the history, culture, and artistic power of his neighborhood with ...

Mohammad Salahat spent a year and a half working in Pinckneyville’s solitary unit; what he witnessed was a warehouse for untreated mental illness.