Warped Tour ended in 2019 not with a full-blown national circuit but with three festivals in three cities. Two months ago, it announced that it would return with three more festivals in 2025.

Here are a few more specific recommendations on Chicago-focused art books that came out this year, from art history to pure ...

Chicago crew Teklife formed in 2011, and they’ve thrived as an electronic dance collective, fashion brand, and record label ...

Early-70s country-rock band JD, Foster & Eastman never released a song, but now you can finally hear how great their albums ...

A Jewish American playwright tries to unlock the story of her family's history in the Holocaust in The Berlin Diaries at Open ...

Local band Beach Bunny's Pool Party on Ice will give you a dose of summer when you most need it, in the dark and gloomy ...

Demetrius Amparan is a music artist and poet from the south side of Chicago. He is a nonprofit leader and father to daughters ...

Owen Ashworth of Advance Base sets a new record in a horror-movie town, the Ramova Loft hosts the Bridgeport Sessions dance ...

The Reader revisits a 1987 feature on iconic actor Robert Townsend that reads "like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations." ...

The Reader revisits a 2014 feature on Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 after a career spanning seven decades.

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by Hannah A. Barnes, Look Both Days, and DJ Manny.

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, ...