Jessica Hopper

Despite releasing its debut cassette at the height (or rather, depths) of the polar vortex, local bubblegum pop group The Lemons is unfazed. "It's giving us time to lay low...

After years of underground toil, local hip hop artist Psalm One (nee Cristalle Bowen) is liberating herself. This week she releases "Hug Life," her first full-length album under her Hologram...

Thirty-six electric guitars, 18 drum kits, 18 basses, 12 keyboards, several dozen microphones and amplifiers, a bevy of picks, pedals, cords, cases, stands and sticks. That is what it will...

Marites Velasquez's job might dominate her life, but ultimately making music is what anchors it. "It's a priority for me to make sure it's part of my life no matter...

Nomi Epstein is a composer, curator and a performer. She is a scholar and a teacher; music seems to be the very breath of her busy life. This weekend she...

Even when Chicago Stone Lightning Band was active, it was barely active. The group was an occasional band, at best, a weeknight kick-back dad band that brought a party vibe...

Even when Chicago Stone Lightning Band was active, it was barely active. The group was an occasional band, at best, a weeknight kick-back dad band that brought a party vibe...

Chad Heslup high-tailed it up to Minneapolis a few years ago, to continue to develop his connections with that city's entrenched independent hip-hop scene, but his roots as a rapper...

Chad Heslup high-tailed it up to Minneapolis a few years ago, to continue to develop his connections with that city's entrenched independent hip-hop scene, but his roots as a rapper...