Blue, through 12/1 at Lyric Opera The post Black and Blue appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Fall Series, through 11/24 at Steppenwolf Theatre The post Hubbard Street’s Fall Series showcases Fosse and Verdonand more appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Hamlet, 11/23 and 11/24, Harris Theater The post Robert Lepage talks about creating a Hamlet without words appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Every few years, Chicago’s storied, genre-mashing metal outfit Immortal Bird migrates back into the studio to weave a prickly yet embracing sort of nest. Their new album, Octobers Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin), is their first full-length since 2019’s Thrive on Neglect, and its arrival suggests a band who like to take their time at […] The post Immortal ...

In June 2023, the city gave landmark status to a stubby brick factory building at 206 S. Jeffersonin the late 1970s, it had housed the nightclub where Frankie Knuckles wove funk, disco, soul, and pop into the subcultural lifeline that became known as house music. Three months earlier, Preservation Chicago had named the Warehouse one […] The post Ten City ...

In a 2015 interview on the AirGo Radio podcast, host Daniel Kisslinger called Jasmine Barber, who raps as J Bambii, Chicagos shining light. That praise may sound grandiose at first pass, but the multihyphenate creative has earned it with her art and her years of building community by organizing parties, film screenings, fishing trips, tarot […] The post J ...

Snotty Nose Rez Kids are a Vancouver-based hip-hop duo who use their music to explore their Indigenous identities, dismantle stereotypes and misconceptions, and shed light on the ongoing impacts of colonialism. Darren “Young D” Metz and Quinton “Yung Trybez” Nyce grew up down the street from each other in the Haisla Nation of British Columbias […] ...

Chicago indie-rock outfit Spun Out have always drawn inspiration from UK postpunk of all stripesespecially its tendency to create drama by adding a sudden ray of sunshine to a dark, austere atmosphere. Their best material rushes past your ears like the breeze off a northern beach. Pale Green Sky, from the new Dream Noise (Shuga), […] The post Chicago ...

Long-running minimal electronic group Xeno & Oaklander turned heads with 2019s Hypnos, where they shed much of their usual monochromatic textures and left-field predilections for a pop-forward direction powered by polyphonic synthesizers. But the about-face proved successful, and the Brooklyn-based duo of Sean McBride and Liz Wendelbro continued down that ...

Nick Hennessey and Maceo Vidal-Haymesbest known as the core duo behind genre-bending outfit the OMysare hyperactive in Chicagos music scene, collaborating with like-minded folks and pushing their sound with each and every project they release. Their brand-new fourth full-length, Trust the Stars, walks a thin line between funkiness and grittiness while ...

In the daze of the election results last Wednesday morning, I got a Facebook message from Harmony France telling me that the company she cofounded back in 2016, Firebrand Theatre, is planning a comeback. I needed good news, and that announcement was one little ray of light in an otherwise terrible day. France and Danni […] The post Firebrand prepares to ...