Chief Keef wraps up 2024 Summer Smash, a huge hometown moment a long time coming
It was a weekend of weather delays and a few mishaps, but mostly a loaded lineup of memorable hip hop music.
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Summer Smash 2024 opens in Bridgeview with Travis Scott supergroup Cactus Jack
Never mind the snafus, including a late Friday night headlining set, this is a lot of music fans' favorite festival of the Chicago summer.
This musician’s stash of post-punk music memories could fill a museum — so he did
Visitors to the hidden spot in Bridgeport "freak out over this stuff," Martin Atkins says. Sometimes it's just a Nine Inch Nails flyer or Wax Trax! artifact that reduces them...
Sí, Bad Bunny agotó las entradas un fin de semana en el United Center, pero para los fanáticos de la música latina de Chicago, él es más que eso
Era una tontería pensar que la multitud no lo llenaría. Era jueves por la noche. Lo más probable es que la gente tuviera que trabajar, y el tráfico por Madison...
Yes, Bad Bunny sold out a weekend at the United Center — but for Chicago’s Latin music fans, he’s more than that
The just over two-hour concert Thursday night opened with “Monaco” from the Puerto Rican artist’s latest album and was a spectacle of pyrotechnics, hit songs and Bad Bunny on horseback....
Ye and Ty Dolla $ign preview ‘Vultures’ at a Chicago listening party full of devotion and contradiction
What’s it like to attend a listening event for the album "Vultures" by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, in 2024? Bizarre. At times, admittedly exhilarating. Deeply challenging....
Matteo Lane returns home with a sold-out ‘Al Dente Tour’ comedy show at the Chicago Theatre
Get out of your own way and start posting your work online. Instagram, mostly. Trade the thirst traps for jokes about thirst traps, hookups and why all Disney princes are...
Chicago noisemakers Blacker Face sit at the convergence of afrofuturism, punk and politics. It’s challenging — whether you’re ready or not
"Stick to the music" sounds like a threat to artists who believe it's part of their duty to use their voices to confront the powers that be. In Chicago, musicians...
Don’t call ’em a ‘throwback’ band. Starcrawler just wants to rock.
"When we started this band, around the L.A. scene at least, all the bands were pretty boring," says Arrow de Wilde, frontwoman of Los Angeles-based quartet Starcrawler, on a phone...
Orville Peck, the masked, gay, self-anointed ‘country star,’ breathes new life into the outlaw tradition
What exactly makes country music "outlaw?" The rebellious, grittier sound of the South gained popularity in the 1970s thanks to artists such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle...