With her long-gestating debut album, The Star, east-side rapper Asha Omega speaks to the importance of self-knowledge and healing.

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Coalesce’s music feels like a bitter black mass whose apocalyptic textures are countered only by the band’s dark humor.

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Even when it’s hosting a night of spook-ems, there’s something cozy and reassuring about walking into Jarvis Square Theater, the long-standing pint-sized Rogers Park blackbox within earshot of the ...

The WCGI Big Jam, hosted by the Chicago hip-hop station, celebrates the season with some of the hottest names in rap. Southern powerhouses GloRilla and Bossman Dlow headline a stacked lineup. The ...

Counters, drawers, shelves, the refrigerator-freezer, and the second fridge (the back porch) spill over with brightly labeled jars, bottles, and tins—the idiosyncratic, shelf-stable output of local ...