Nandi Rose Plunkett, who makes music as Half Waif, released her sixth full-length album, See You at the Maypole.

Percussion prodigy and washboard wizard Jimmy Bertrand worked with Louis Armstrong and Ma Rainey and mentored future star ...

The rest of the album is a blend of originals and reinterpreted standards by the likes of George Gershwin (“Embracable You”) ...

Maps & Atlases formed in 2004 and have spent the past couple decades exploring the terrain where weird time signatures turn into hum-along choruses and uplifting, folky harmonies.

The Internet Archive begins posting the Aadam Jacobs Collection. Plus: Four locals heat up the dead of winter with new music.

The City of Chicago is phasing out Favorite Healthcare Staffing after paying the agency $342 million to oversee its shelter ...

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A former reporter from the long-gone City News Bureau remembers a brief encounter with Jimmy Carter in Chicago.

Stop Traffic on Redding Road feels like a Pan•American record, it doesn’t feel like a solo Pan•American record.

Los Angeles songwriter Tchad Cousins, aka Urika’s Bedroom, is well acquainted with the sort of dreamy Alice in Wonderland–style aesthetic of 1960s psychedelic folk.

Arty Chicago punk trio Background Character just celebrated five years as a band and they’re still just as eager to try new ideas as they were on day one ...

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