Suzy Sheer make electroclash for pillow fights. The duo splatter their gauzy, ethereal synth melodies with harsh electronic percussion as though they’re opening a shaken-up can of Mountain Dew onto a ...

Charlie Parr has been making stark, arresting music for two and a half decades, and he seems to be able to summon the aesthetic of any era he wants.

Announcing the highlights of this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival, hosted at the Siskel Film Center from November 6–15 ...

What to watch in theaters and at home. Top film, TV, and streaming picks from the Chicago Reader.

Annoyance's Murder at Moidah Manor has some solid laughs but could use sharper instruments for delivering the whodunit whimsy ...

The Bridge has been connecting improvising musicians from France with their midwestern counterparts since 2013.

Known as Billy offstage, Bullion built a life in storefront theater with wit, intelligence, heart, and "the Style." ...

V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album, photographer Jim Newberry celebrates a new book of Chicago music ...

Mary Cassatt celebrated the everyday lives of women and children, as proven in this stunning show at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sweeping Promises Clickbait and Uniflora open. Fri 10/30, 10 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $26.78, 21+ The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we ...

I’m not sure I could’ve invented a better gateway jam band than Taper’s Choice. For the jam-band curious who are bored by Widespread Panic, baffled by Umphrey’s McGee, or intimidated by the vast ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...