Chief Keef is coming home. In the early ’10s, the teenage Sosa popularized Chicago drill, and the genre has now swept across the planet. During his rise to fame, though, Keef was constantly in trouble with the law, and his Chicago performances were shut down again and again. For more than a decade, Keef has essentially been banned in C...

Last year, the Chicago-via-Madison band Slow Pulp released Yard, one of the best albums of 2023. Last month, they made their TV debut on CBS Saturday Morning. They also recently stopped by the SiriusXMU studios for a live session, where they performed a cover of Lifehouse’s early-’00s hit “Hanging By A Moment.&#...

Katie Crutchfield released her spectacular new Waxahatchee album Tigers Blood Friday, and she celebrated with an intimate album release show in Chicago, the home base of drummer Spencer Tweedy. Crutchfield and her band performed Friday night at the Empty Bottle, a club small enough that I’d feel real lucky to see a Waxahatchee show the...

FACS, the tense and noisy Chicago post-punk band, are putting out a new single through the Sub Pop. The A-side, “North America Endless,” is out now, while the B-side, a cover of the Eurythmics’ “Take Me To Your Heart,” is presumably coming on April 12 when the record’s released. This ba...

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