• Newsletters
  • Donate now
  • CITY LIFE
    • Out Here
    • Public Service Announcement
    • Shop Local
    • Street View
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: City Life
    • Best of Chicago: Buy Local
    • Best of Chicago: Cannabis
    • Best of Chicago: Sports & Recreation
  • NEWS & POLITICS
    • News
    • Features
    • En español
    • Podcasts
      • The Ben Joravsky Show
      • Chicago Queer & Now
  • COLUMNS & OPINION
    • Anthony Ehlers: On Prisons
    • John Greenfield: On Transportation
    • Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
    • Ben Joravsky: On Politics
    • The Ben Joravsky Show
    • Dan Savage: Savage Love
    • Opinion
  • MUSIC
    • Music Features
    • Chicagoans of Note
    • Gossip Wolf
    • The Listener
    • The Secret History of Chicago Music
    • Music Reviews
    • Concert Previews
    • Early Warnings
    • Music listings community calendar
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Music & Nightlife
    • Chicago in Tune guide
    • Bull Horn (paid sponsored content)
  • ARTS & CULTURE
    • Spring Theater & Arts Preview
    • Features
    • Theater
    • Dance
    • Visual arts
    • Book reviews
    • Ghost Light by Kerry Reid
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Arts & Culture
    • Arts listings community calendar
  • FILM
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Small Screen
    • Archives
  • FOOD & DRINK
    • The Drinks Issue
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Best of Chicago: Food & Drink
    • Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content)
  • READER
    • About
      • Contact
      • Staff
      • Careers
    • Newsletters
    • Find a print copy
      • Print subscriptions
    • Advertise
    • Donate
    • Become a member
    • Contests
    • Reader Store
    • Classifieds
      • Matches
    • Nonprofit Guide
    • Reader 50
    • Best of Chicago
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
Chicago Reader

Chicago Reader

Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom

Donate now
  • »
  • We’re hiring!
  • The Sound Issue
  • Latest issue
  • Reader 50
  • Nonprofit Guide
  • En español
  • Contests
  • Reader Store
  • Advertise
Home » Sally Timms

Tag: Sally Timms

An illustration of avant-garde no-wave collective the Devil Bell Hippies embedded in the title card for the Secret History of Chicago Music
Posted inMusic

The Devil Bell Hippies: Chicago’s greatest avant-garde band that only kind of exists

by Steve Krakow May 18, 2022May 18, 2022

When I finished college downstate and moved to the Windy City in 1995, the Chicago no-wave scene was breaking apart. While still in school, I’d often driven three hours to catch gigs here, and after my move I caught the last shows by local no-wave stars the Scissor Girls and Lake of Dracula.  The original […]

Members of Freakons gathered outside a red barn
Posted inMusic

Freakwater and the Mekons unite to sing about coal’s dark, transatlantic legacy

by Bill Meyer March 23, 2022March 16, 2022

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, retail clerks, day-care staff, public-transportation employees, and many other workers learned what coal miners have known for a very long time: that the authorities who deem their labor essential don’t necessarily feel the same way about their lives. Freakwater and the Mekons have each sung folk ballads […]

Posted inMusic

The Maypole Folk Festival builds a big tent

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil April 23, 2019August 18, 2021

The Maypole Folk Festival builds a big tent, the Goldstars lead a crowded tribute to R&B icon Andre Williams, and more.

Posted inMusic

Chicago rapper the Boy Illinois headlines his first show since dropping the triumphant Windy EP

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil January 29, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago rapper the Boy Illinois headlines his first show since dropping the triumphant Windy EP, three current and former Chicagoans set a piece of Finnegans Wake to music, and more.

Posted inMusic

Danielle Sines of Impulsive Hearts on a 16-year-old who cowrote a doo-wop hit

by Philip Montoro May 29, 2017August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Impulsive Hearts front woman Danielle Sines, CHIRP codirector of features Amelia Hruby, and Reader music editor Philip Montoro

Posted inMusic

Pilsen welcomes another new record shop

by Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson October 28, 2015August 18, 2021

Plus: The Golden Horse Ranch Band hosts Haunted Honky Tonk Karaoke, and Gel Set scores “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Posted inBlogs

Performer-choreographer-poet Ian Spencer Bell brings his ‘talking dances’ to the Poetry Foundation tonight

by Kate Schmidt March 11, 2015August 18, 2021

Dancer-poet Ian Spencer Bell comes to the Poetry Foundation to perform his Geography Solos, a suite of “talking dances” and a new autobiographical piece, Holler.

Posted inFilm

Kim Gordon: ‘Nobody says, “What’s it like being a man in music?”‘

by Chicago Reader February 25, 2015August 18, 2021

The Sonic Youth cofounder talks with the Mekons’ Sally Timms about her recent divorce, her rejuvenated art career, and her new memoir, Girl in a Band.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Tue 12/17: Kanye West, DKV Trio, and The Second City That Never Sleeps

by Drew Hunt December 17, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, December 17

Lady Gaga
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: People-watching at Pitchfork

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil July 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Gossip Wolf: People-watching at Pitchfork, new material from Pezband, and a farewell to Cross Record.

Posted inBlogs

This week on the B Side

by Miles Raymer March 1, 2012August 19, 2021

A middle finger to pop sexism, a blasphemous metal fest, Pitchfork rumors, and more

Filipino black-metal band Deiphago
Posted inMusic

Three Beats: Deiphago play their first U.S. show at a Chicago metal fest

by Peter Margasak, Kim Kelly and Miles Raymer February 29, 2012August 19, 2021

An unprecedented U.S. show for Deiphago, an odd Sally Timms reissue, and another dose of Johnny Love

Posted inArts & Culture

Burly ingenues and animal hybrids like whale-ducks

by Elly Fishman December 15, 2011August 19, 2021

It’s time for The Fifth Annual Hideout Christmas Egyptian/Cosmic Panto

Posted inBlogs

Ancient & Modern: Last night’s Mekons show at Lincoln Hall

by Kate Schmidt October 6, 2011August 19, 2021

Set list and a few notes on the Mekons show at Lincoln Hall.

Travis Barker; Kid Sister
Posted inMusic

Look Who’s Making Tracks With Travis

by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson September 23, 2010August 19, 2021

Kid Sister in the studio, plus a Maps & Atlases LP, new dollies by Archer Prewitt, good-bye to Graeme Gibson, and more

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts

Get the Reader's free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday.

Recent Posts

  • A skateboarding symposium, drag performances, and art talks
  • El Condado de Cook al Descubierto: La Junta de Revisión
  • A very dark place
  • Song and dance, but not enough story
  • Horsegirl and the dream of a teen rock scene
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Best of Chicago 2021

About the Chicago Reader
Reader Staff
Reader Careers
Freelance Information
Contact Us
Become a member
Donate

Advertise

Find the Paper
Subscribe
Shop the Reader Store
Contests/Giveaways/Promotions

Reader Classifieds

Reader Matches

Chicago Reader Nonprofit Guide

Get our free newsletters

Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

© 2022 Chicago Reader. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic