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Lollapalooza 2026 Saturday schedule features livestreamed performances from Wolf Alice, Ethel Cain, Geese, Olivia Dean, Clipse, and The Neighbourhood at Grant Park.
Chicago artist V.V. Lightbody announces self-produced album 'Period Piece' and shares single 'Practice Smiling', exploring social post-isolation awkwardness.
Chicago noise-rock duo Mr. Phylzzz close their July tour by recording a live album at the Empty Bottle.
Chicago singer-songwriter Tanner Dane returns with 'Hardest Lessons Learned' on Easy Does It Records, co-written with Levi Foster.
Plantsong’s Bald Cypress from the Houston Menil Campus series turns plant frequency, synthesizers and tape echo into ambient drone and new-age meditation.
JA'GANE and GRIFFEN release The Immortal instrumentals, giving the Chicago hip-hop project a full beat-tape afterlife of boom-bap structure and instrumental rap pressure.