Leor Galil

Plus: The weekend's music festivals include some of the summer's most interesting, including the Silver Room Block Party and Loose Leaf Fest.

For the past couple years, Chicago electronic artist Anne Helen Wells has been working on pulsating, sugary tracks that cleave to a single theme: desire.

In June, Portland label Drunk Dial Records released the third volume of its Fakes series, which compiles cover versions of songs by fictional bands from movies and TV shows.

Death bookends Baby I'll Change (Run for Cover), a righteous EP released in June by Boston posthardcore veterans Fiddlehead.

Plus: New York label Fire Talk launches its concert-finding app in Chicago, the G.E.T.O. DJz throw a daylong west-side house-music party, and more.

Social media and streaming have changed who can book shows and how. Those new incentives might even convince a local band to play a hot-dog joint.

The four veteran Chicago punks who play as Consensus Madness have a deep reverence for the roots of their movement. On their new debut full-length,

Discord ripples through American Football (LP 4) like the rumbling of distant thunder.

In late July, musician and poet Cole “Johnson Rockstar” Hunt, cofounder of the band TV Buddha, hosted the first Nitro-a-Go-Go.

Plus: First Presbyterian hosts an anti-ICE hardcore blowout, No I.D. headlines a spectacular night at the Ramova Loft, and more.