The pop-culture industry loves to resurface detritus from my youth, add a little polish, and launch it on whatever streaming service I'm most likely to drop due to rising subscription […] …
Gossip Wolf has been hip to Chicago rapper and singer Angelenah, aka Ashley Hart and Angel Davanport, ever since she released the 2018 EP Sore but Grateful. She's been sharpening […] The p…
Last October, musician and curator Emily Beisel began booking the monthly Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, which centers femme and nonbinary performers"and they follow their sets with improv…
Over the past two and a half years, I've assembled a lot of lists for Bandcamp Friday. I like sharing music that's unfamiliar to people, and the occasion of a […] The post Bandcamp Friday …
I've heard plenty of great songs that capture the dissociative lonesomeness and strange thrills of navigating interpersonal relationships now that so much human communication is sucked up by…
Dread can be suffocating, but Ganser make it work like a spark. On their new EP, Nothing You Do Matters (Felte), the Chicago postpunk four-piece take cues from dance punk […] The post Gans…
The term "world music" has never been adequate to the task we've set it"even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of […] The post The <i&g…
Gossip Wolf has long believed that physical releases from Fire-Toolz, the wonderfully disorienting flagship project of local electronic musician Angel Marcloid, will one day be swapped among…
Chicago posthardcore four-piece Tar broke up in 1995, and the number of times they've reunited for a show since then you can count on one hand"this gig will be the […] The post Tar play th…
The Reader has praised Maria Jacobson, leader of local indie-rock project Fran, for her "taut, serene singing" and for her well-written songs, which are "sharpened by a pristine elegance eve…
Singer, rapper, and songwriter Tink broke out of Chicago's hip-hop scene about a decade ago, becoming one of the constellation of new stars lighting up the city. Like many local […] The po…
Chicago rappers Tony Santana and Aubry know that all the talent in the world can't make a hip-hop duo work if the MCs don't click. As Stranded Civilians, Aubry and […] The post Stranded Ci…
Chicagoans don't need an excuse to talk about house music, but when the biggest pop star in the world drops a record indebted to house, you can expect more than […] The post Reading house'…
On Friday, September 16, Chicago singer, songwriter, and cartoonist Annie Fish will drop Weird Like Me, an album so steeped in classic alt-rock you'll half believe Fish recorded it with [……
Ten City's fifth album, 2021's Judgement (Ultra), was a long time in the making"and not just because the crucial Chicago house group's previous album, That Was Then, This Is Now, […] The p…
Cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos moved to Chicago last year to begin an MFA in sound at the School of the Art Institute, but she's got a foot planted […] The post Chicago-based soun…
In 2019, Gossip Wolf hailed local death-metal crew Warforged for being "wickedly adept at cross-pollination" and described their debut full-length, I: Voice, as blending "ghostly black-metal…
Brett Ray had proved his commitment to extreme music long before he launched the extreme-music blowout Dreary North Fest last year. He's been booking shows for more than two decades, […] T…
It's been four months since we've had a Bandcamp Friday. In case you've somehow forgotten, Bandcamp introduced them shortly after COVID-19 eliminated stateside touring in March 2020, and the…
If you've ever been to a show at Thalia Hall, you've walked right past Anna-Michal Paul's work. She creates the hand-drawn chalk art that greets concertgoers as they ascend the […] The pos…
A teenage Jamie Hodge enchanted the international underground-dance community in 1993 with his debut 12-inch as Born Under a Rhyming Planet, Analog: Heaven. Techno figurehead Richie Hawtin r…
Chicago Latine indie band Los Gold Fires have been quiet the past couple years, but guitarist Siul Reynoso has focused instead on a warmhearted, psych-tinged solo project called Gabacho. Rey…
I've long admired Chicago indie label Star Creature Universal Vibrations for its efforts to push the synth-heavy sounds of boogie and modern funk and bolster the international underground co…
Last month, local darkwave band Kill Scenes dropped "Acid Black Window," the first single from the upcoming full-length album Masque. The five-piece group, anchored by songwriters Meghan Lam…
Last year Chicagoland multi-instrumentalist Eric Reyes broke out in emo and pop-punk circles with his debut as Snow Ellet, the EP Suburban Indie Rock Star. It injects the sugar rush […] Th…