This week’s featured gig poster was designed by London-based artist Maxwell Paternoster for the band Screaming Females.
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 41
Issue of Jul. 18 – 24, 2019
Posted inArts & Culture
The second coming of True West
Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood breathe fire into Steppenwolf’s revival.
Posted inMusic
At Pitchfork, all the world’s onstage
Cate Le Bon, Black Midi, Ibeyi, and Chai are among the acts from abroad at the festival this year.
Posted inMusic
Valee runs up a high score
In recognition of Valee’s Pitchfork debut, the Reader attempts to quantify the Chicago rapper’s braggadociousness.
Posted inMusic
Pitchfork finally makes its own pop moment
Robyn, Sky Ferreira, Haim, and Charli XCX aim a little to the left of the Top 40—and give the Pitchfork crowd something to dance about.
Posted inMusic
Why haven’t the Isley Brothers conquered the rock market?
The legendary R&B band can rock hard too, but they’ve never crossed over like Sly Stone or Prince.
Posted inMusic
The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Pitchfork Music Festival
Even on a weekend it shares with the Silver Room Block Party and the debut of ComplexCon Chicago, Pitchfork stands out for its far-sighted, eclectic bookings.
Posted inMusic
What happens to the trash at Pitchfork?
And how does the festival stack up against its peers on the sustainability front?
Posted inMusic
Barbara Acklin missed soul stardom by a hair
She’s best known for the 1968 hit “Love Makes a Woman,” but she also had a productive songwriting duo with Eugene Record of the Chi-Lites.
Posted inMusic
A streamable mixtape of Pitchfork’s Chicago sounds
This year Pitchfork booked enough acts from in and around Chicago to fill one side of a 90-minute cassette.
Posted inNews & Politics
Immigrant children sent to Chicago shelters are traumatized and sick, in some instances with chicken pox or tuberculosis
Hundreds of children are being detained in shelters run by Heartland Human Care Services, which says it has made changes since allegations that children were neglected and mistreated.
Posted inArts & Culture
DePaul students show off the future of video games
Inside the world of an academic game development program.
Posted inFilm
Movie Tuesday: In the good old summertime
Inspired by the rerelease of Do the Right Thing, five films that most effectively make summer a part of the story
Posted inMusic
Dusty Groove is selling off thousands of LPs for a dollar each
Dusty Groove sells off thousands of LPs for a dollar each, anonymous local dark-ambient producer Faithful drops a free EP, and more.