Music
More than 100 local acts applied for the chance to perform at Riot Fest in September. Taking top prize in the contest, sponsored by Ald. Monique Scott’s office, was the band Large Mouth, made of Little Village teens.
Elizabeth Nichols dropped out of law school to pursue her music career after viral hits. Can she make the leap to mainstream success?
Her new album, “Wor$t Girl in America,” is her first to ever pop up in top spots on Billboard charts after years of hustling.
Known for playing character Mike Wheeler in “Stranger Things,” Wolfhard made his solo festival debut at Lollapalooza.
For the New Zealander, the headlining slot was a way to “complete the circle” of a Lolla journey that began in 2014 when she was just 17.
For his headlining homecoming set, Summit pushed his usual high-energy performance past the max.
In only a few years, the LaGuardia High dropout has gone from making music in the safe confines of his New York bedroom to playing the globe’s biggest stages with a certain level of confidence and swagger.
“It’s just refreshing in this time to see an artist as big as she is post-‘Brat’ really giving it back to the fans.”
Five of the eight headliners this year are women: Lorde on Thursday and Charli xcx, Olivia Dean, Jennie and Tate McRae. Plus, info on the Smashing Pumpkins’ Pumpkinpalooza, street closures and the festival’s bag policy.
Hansard came to Chicago to perform as a young musician in 1998, and for the next 28 years he came back every chance he got.
ETA Creative Arts Foundation will present Ntozake Shange’s landmark 1976 choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” The play opens Saturday and runs through Aug. 30.