Music

Samara Joy's "buttery vocals melt across the warm grooves of whatever songs she's singing, conjuring the greats of yore while simultaneously forging her own effervescent stye" (The Old Grey Cat blog).

Kurt Vile is an essential American psych-pop songwriter and guitarist. His music, veering between flashes of lightning and hazes of dense fog, captures our emotional and collective landscape like few other artists in the modern era. 

Presented at Gabe's
Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz, is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive. 

Love In Exile is the daring new collaboration from Grammy Award-winning singer Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, and Vijay Iyer. In These Times is a masterwork album from Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven.

Presented at The Englert Theatre
The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic self-conducted chamber orchestra comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists aiming to evolve the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and community engagement.

Giddens’ lifelong mission is to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Pitchfork has said of her work, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration.”

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit come to Hancher in support of Weathervanes, a new record that carries that same revelatory power—power that will even more palpable in live performance. Wednesday will open for Isbell.

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock has been an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960s—making his music and career exceptionally influential across many genres.

A singer, composer and actor, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums.

Performing everything from jazz-tinged psychedelia to dissonant cumbia, Dos Santos is at the forefront of a new era of Latinx alternative music. Ratboys is an American indie rock band from Chicago formed by Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan.