by Ryan Bird | September 2, 2026Mike Reed’s Sound & Gravity Festival Returns to Bricktown The multi-venue experimental festival will take you all over, musically and geographically. Read our guide on who to see and where to be, beyond the headliners.
by Irene Monokandilos | March 24, 2026Shabaka Brings Meditative Sound to Constellation The musician who helped define a wave of British jazz performs at a venue known for nurturing experimental music.
by Dylan Weinert | September 4, 2025Mike Reed’s New Music Festival Is Stranger and More Imaginative Than Pitchfork Sound & Gravity is a five-day, multivenue music experience curated by Mike Reed, the man who directed Pitchfork Music Festival from 2006 to 2024.
by Craig Bechtel | September 2, 2025Jessica Risker on Making “Calendar Year,” Music Therapy and Motherhood Real Housewife of Jefferson Park? Jessica Risker turns life’s chaos into luminous psych-folk songs.
by Craig Bechtel | June 26, 2025The Method to Matmos’ Metal Madness: Deconstructing “Metallic Life Review”
by David Witter | April 15, 2025Labor of Love: A Preview of the Eleventh Chicago Jazz String Summit, Dedicated to Leroy Jenkins
