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GreenSllime in the studio
Posted inBest of Chicago

Best rapper (temporarily) banned from YouTube

by Alejandro Hernandez March 2, 2022March 15, 2022

Rapper, producer, DJ, and talk-show host GreenSllime has built a cult following with his muddy, sample-heavy production and crass rhymes. In the past few years he’s made incredible strides toward […]

Singer Tatiana Hazel poses with blonde hair looking up from a sitting position on the floor
Posted inMusic

Chicago native Tatiana Hazel crafts pop songs for the arena shows of tomorrow

by Leor Galil September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

Chicago native Tatiana Hazel has come a long way since she started uploading acoustic performances to YouTube as a preteen a decade ago. This past summer she dropped a new […]

Bambi Banks-Couleé
Posted inFood & Drink

Get baked with Bambi Banks-Couleé

by Salem Collo-Julin June 9, 2021August 18, 2021

The drag superstar is decolonizing weed “from the kitchen to the couch” with her new cooking webseries.

Posted inMusic

Bad Noids give you something non-terrible to scream about

by Salem Collo-Julin May 3, 2021August 18, 2021

Hollering along with Bad Noids’ punk rock is more fun than arguing with COVID deniers—and it’ll probably do more good.

Posted inMusic

HotHouse meets Havana on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin January 20, 2021August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was designed for the HotHouse by graphic designer and photographer Shelley Hiam.

Posted inMusic

Another Sunny Day wrote a theme song for the disillusioned

by Salem Collo-Julin July 20, 2020August 18, 2021

The late-80s solo project of UK songwriter Harvey Williams still resonates with indie-pop misanthropes.

Posted inMusic

Tatiana Hazel knows she was meant to shine

by Catalina Maria Johnson July 6, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago native Tatiana Hazel has been on a journey that merges fashion, visual design, and music since she was 13 years old, when she began posting videos of herself singing […]

Posted inMusic

Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?

by Jack Riedy June 17, 2020August 18, 2021

Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘Please stay at home’

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven May 27, 2020August 18, 2021

From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.

Posted inMusic

YouTube-famous Blue Line busker Ashley Stevenson drops her first studio album

by J.R. Nelson May 5, 2020August 18, 2021

YouTube-famous Blue Line busker Ashley Stevenson drops her first studio album, dirt-rock ragers Hitter release their debut full-length, and more.

Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 15 and 16

by Reader staff April 4, 2020August 18, 2021

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

Posted inMusic

Meet the YouTube singing star of the Hakha Chin diaspora

by Jack Helbig March 31, 2020August 18, 2021

Burmese refugee Elena HT Par, a high school student in Chicago, won the Chin Cable Network’s 2019 award for song of the year.

Posted inMusic

With Piece of Mind, Hxry brings a laid-back vibe to Chicago’s R&B scene

by Leor Galil January 31, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago R&B artist Hxry got his start as a producer—at least as far back as 2016, he was releasing stylistically scattershot instrumental tracks on Soundcloud—but he got his first real […]

Posted inMusic

Tate McRae is happy to sing sad pop

by Noah Berlatsky January 17, 2020August 18, 2021

You’d think Tate McRae would have a lot to be happy about: at age 16 she’s already a successful ballet dancer who’s appeared on the TV show So You Think […]

Posted inMusic

Chicago rapper 8MatikLogan hones a new pop edge that could make him a star

by Leor Galil December 13, 2019August 18, 2021

This summer Chicago rapper 8MatikLogan released “House of Pain,” a blazing, salacious single punctuated with tasteful claps. Its video is closing in on 400,000 YouTube views, and it could become […]

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