James Porter pays tribute to powerhouse singer Eric “Shoutin’” Sheridan, the only other Black man he knew on Chicago’s ...

Playing for years with Ramsey Lewis and Count Basie, exploring funky fusion, running a club, teaching in a university—bassist ...

If there’s one thing we know about Afrofuturism, it’s that it uses speculative genres as a future-imagining device to share ...

Plus: Lincoln Hall hosts zine makers and indie rockers at the second annual Hallogallo Fest, the in-house label at Signal ...

Thelonious Martin's sample-based tracks maintain a connection to the genre’s earliest roots, and now the producer is passing ...

Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me returns in a heartbreakingly timely production with TimeLine.

Neal O’Bryan founded Workshed Animation, which specializes in stop-motion horror shorts and features, with longtime ...

Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba ask organizers to retire their inner cynic and ...

When Mexican American postpunks French Police switched to a stark retro sound, the Chicago trio's audience blew up.

Collaging invites us to manipulate our worlds. This surrealistic technique synthesizes the remnants of our reality into an ...

Martin Dupont was one of the most enigmatic and exhilarating coldwave bands of the 1980s. The group was founded in 1980 in ...

Chicago R&B artist Shawnee Dez releases her debut album, Moody Umbra, the culmination of years of work in the city’s DIY ...