Jessica Hopper

Coming up on the second annual Afro-Caribbean Improvised Music Festival, organizer Omar Torres-Kortright isn't nervous. For him the success is that so many people have come together to help the...

Their band may be a baby band, but Fake Limbs have a rep for being manly and aggressive. The Logan Square-based quartet pokes fun at the idea with "Man Feelings,"...

Though they both have separate thriving careers in the underground rap scene, Qwel & Maker are perhaps best loved as a team. Maker works as an in-demand producer and beatmaker...

Two hours before the massive blizzard in February 2011, musical duo and couple Erin Frisby and Chris Stelloh took off from Chicago on a bit of a dare. A friend...

Joe Pug was one of the brightest talents that Chicago could claim, at least until the singer-songwriter uprooted to Austin, Texas, in 2010. Pug's work mines the classic folk tradition,...

When The Sea and Cake hit the Chicago music scene in the mid-'90s, the group helped redefine the Chicago sound. Until then, Chicago's rock scene had been known for clangorous...

When The Sea and Cake hit the Chicago music scene in the mid-'90s, the group helped redefine the Chicago sound. Until then, Chicago's rock scene had been known for clangorous...

When a local music scene hits the national spotlight, while much of the hype is for the first artists out of the gate, the acts coming up behind them are...

Dania Luck performs solo as Stacian, but she has some outside help. Luck's muse is a guiding spirit that drives her heavily textured, synthetic sound. On "Songs for Cadets," her...