Aight Bet's stomp-you-out beats, slap-you-up lyrics, and seamless juxtaposition of booming rap and hardcore vocals have loads of artistic potential.

Fruit LoOops' live shows can switch between the raw, stripped-down aesthetic of punk and the rehearsed technique of performance art, but they’re never pretentious.

Biz 3 publicist Dana Meyerson works with the likes of Ms. Lauryn Hill and Chappell Roan, but she grounds herself in her Chicago community.

Demetrius Amparan is a music artist and poet from the south side of Chicago. He is a nonprofit leader and father to daughters ...

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Chicago’s “spirit of creation and love of play” are helping filmmaker Rey Tang find artistic opportunities for herself and ...

Avondale shop Lot’sa hosts monthly workshops on things like botanical cyanotype prints, risograph notebooks, and concrete castings.

Foodman first created music in a PlayStation game called Depth, and his rudimentary experiments with the technology sparked an understanding that anyone can be an artist, regardless of skill or ...

As 2024 comes to a close, local fans can celebrate their good fortune with a stacked double album-release show headlined by two of the area’s grimiest death-metal purveyors.

Their virtuosic playing and charming, flamboyant showmanship have helped make Mariachi Herencia de México’s annual Christmas shows a nascent Chicago tradition.

Founders, friends, and affiliates of Chicago hip-hop label Closed Sessions use its 15th anniversary to reflect on the ...

Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek and Brent Fuscaldo conceived the Chicago group as a relatively rock-oriented unit called Mako Sica, but several drummers later, the two core multi-instrumentalists decided ...