Leor Galil

As Fingy, Chicago producer and DJ Natalie Finfer creates a refined new setting for pop’s sugary hooks and maximalist euphoria.

Composer and sound artist Norman W. Long got hooked on experimental music in the 1990s as a student at Illinois State University.

Sometime the summer before last, the Reader team gathered in person for an all-staff event organized to review our guiding policies and mission statement, take staff photos, and welcome new team members. Among longtime staffers who hadn’t seen each other since the start of the pandemic, there was a palpable mix of awkward excitement about reconnecting face-to-face, along with the equally awkward giddiness of finally meeting new colleagues we’d only known through their work or brief Zoom appearances.

Composer and sound artist Norman W. Long got hooked on experimental music in the 1990s as a student at Illinois State University.

Chicago house veterans Ten City's Metro show will include performances by White Knight, Curtis McClain, Harry Dennis, and the Good Girls.

Minneapolis trio Prize Horse play pensive, moody posthardcore whose burnished surfaces and carefully structured negative spaces give it remarkable depth.

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Owen Ashworth of Advance Base sets a new record in a horror-movie town, the Ramova Loft hosts the Bridgeport Sessions dance night, and more.

Chicago R&B singer Megan Hammond, better known as m.e.h., delivers searching lyrics as though she’s already figured out what to do. With her steadfast poise and voluptuous voice, she balances confidence and vulnerability, which gives her music a disarming sincerity. In August, Hammond self-released the two-song EP Coup de Grâce, where she handles stylistically slippery […]

New York City rapper Dave East delivers verses like a freight train—just as a train is unassuming and familiar in its bulk and speed, his performances