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Screamo iconoclast Tyler Odom of Your Arms Are My Cocoon has already reinvented the genre once—and he’s just getting started.

Intravenus,” a Riley Valentine solo show, is a love letter to analog, with each work dedicated to the concept of the divine feminine.

A father-daughter road trip shows the distance between hope and reality in Bramble Theatre's Racecar Racecar Racecar.

International Anthem’s 11th birthday party adds a Hungry Brain residency, and veteran DJ Lee Collins needs help paying for cancer treatment.

Gwydion Theatre Company's revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts resonates mostly as an exploration of the generational effects of hypocrisy.

The Frequency Festival's seven concerts include Chicago or U.S. debuts by Zosha Warpeha, Angharad Davies, and Pat Thomas & ...

Molchat Doma are now based in Los Angeles, and every time they announce another Chicago concert, it’s at a bigger venue.

A mass shooting in Chicago should have been inspiration for a discussion of violence prevention. Instead, some blamed ...

The musician performs in Chicago at Metro in February supporting her self-released debut full-length, Verbathim, a "knockout ...

Horsegirl’s anything-goes, anyone-can-do-it outlook, which embraces punk as a spirit rather than as a concrete genre, echoes ...

Instrumental ambient ensemble Hour draw their power from several east-coast music communities along the stretch between Maine ...