DCASE launched the Chicago House Music Fest at Pritzker Pavilion on Memorial Day weekend in 2018, after several years of ...

Milou Moon is the project of Emily McGill, a French American originally from Chicago who has lived partly in Melbourne, ...

Seth Boustead speaks on how ACM's view of classical music as a living tradition informs its Thirsty Ears Festival and its new ...

Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus ...

Formed in Liverpool in 2006, UK trio Conan called their slow-moving, sludgy style “caveman battle doom,” and its colossal down-tuned guitars hit with the subtlety of the Chicxulub impactor.

For its second installment, Future Folk Festival heads to Austin Town Hall for an evening of music led by two latter-day members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a crucial ...

Good DJs are deft vibe curators, but the best DJs—including stalwart Japanese techno producer Wata Igarashi—are also gifted storytellers.

The name of Wheelhouse’s second long-player, last month’s House and Home (Aerophonic), acknowledges the domestic circumstances and priorities that have shaped the band’s existence.

Standing outside of the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) architecture building on a hot day in August, the unexpected rhythms of trumpet, drums, and bass, float up from the ground floor, just ...

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“Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom," at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, contains 25 years of the work of Paul Pfeiffer.