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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Maggie Rogers Isn’t Just Coffee Shop Indie

Maggie Rogers Isn’t Just Coffee Shop Indie

By Lainey Gregory and Sofia Hrycyszyn / November 21, 2024
Rogers’s “Don’t Forget Me” tour emphasized her drive to leave an impact on the community through her music and her fear of getting lost to history.
Alice Phoebe Lou plays the Salt Shed.

Alice Phoebe Lou Invites Us to Her Garden

By Harmonie Ramsden / November 19, 2024
Alice Phoebe Lou, an image of whimsy in a sea of subtlety, charmed as the opening act for Clairo on October 16 at the Salt Shed.
Kishi Bashi performs at Offset. Photo by Georgia Wluka.

Kishi Bashi Wants You to Celebrate With Him

By Evy Wyman / November 18, 2024
Evy Wyman covers Kishi Bashi’s “joyous and golden” performance at Chicago’s new venue Offset.
Kassie Rivera (far left) asserts authorship of a fan fiction by reciting it from memory and claims a coveted summer internship from her frat brothers Anthony Stefani (second from right) and Simon Lenoe (second from left).

Theater[24] Is Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

By Lucy Whitehead / November 4, 2024

Theater[24], a quarterly production from University Theater, is a showcase of new plays that have been written and staged in the preceding 24 hours. The quick pace of the production process enables every...

Escaping to another world with Sarah Kinsley

Escaping to another world with Sarah Kinsley

By Miki Mukawa / November 4, 2024

If you were to look up the internet’s description of Sarah Kinsley’s music, you would often come across three words: ethereal, otherworldly, relatable. All three of those descriptors fit her music;...

The Arts Podcast, E3: The Future of Pop

By Elizabeth Eck, Tiffany Li, and Nolan Shaffer / October 30, 2024

We’re back with episode three of the Arts podcast! This week your hosts Elizabeth, Nolan, and Tiffany discuss Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter and their respective...

Sigur Rós and the Wordless Music Orchestra play Auditorium Theatre on September 21, 2024. Credit Harmonie Ramsden.

Sigur Rós: A Love Letter to the Ensemble

By Harmonie Ramsden / October 21, 2024
Senior Arts Writer Harmonie Ramsden spends an evening with Sigur Rós at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre.

The Arts Podcast, E2: BRAT Summer

By Tiffany Li and Elizabeth Eck / October 14, 2024

Tune in to hear the second episode of the Arts podcast, where Elizabeth and Tiffany talk all things Brat (Charli xcx’s newest album) and the Sweat tour with Charli xcx and Troye Sivan with Shygirl as...

Buckshot and XL Dancer (left and right) face off as tensions rise with nowhere to go. Courtesy of Michael Brosilow with Court Theatre.

Beauty and Horror in “East Texas Hot Links” at the Court

By Nolan Shaffer / October 14, 2024
There is a mosaic of experience in the Court Theatre’s first play of the 2024-25 season, writes associate Arts editor Nolan Shaffer.
Sturgill Simpson plays the Salt Shed.

Sit Down. Sturgill Simpson Has Things That You Need to Hear.

By Noah Glasgow / October 14, 2024
In a stop at the Salt Shed, country singer Sturgill Simpson sealed the end of his old outlaw style. But in Simpson’s own words: “Sometimes beginnings can come from an end.”
From left to right, Carlos Garcia (guitar), Jasmine Rodgers (vocals, guitar), Alex Patterson (violin), Harry Smith (multi-instrumentalist), Alex Caird (bass, guitar), perform the song “Drinking” from Twilight.

A “Strange Few”: bôa at Thalia Hall

By Anika Krishnaswamy / October 10, 2024
British alt-rock band bôa stuns at Thalia Hall
The grounds of the Evanston Folk Festival. Photograph by Josh Druding courtesy SPACE.

First Evanston Folk Festival Appreciates the Old and Attracts the New

By Lena Birkholz / October 10, 2024
At the new Evanston Folk Festival, honest love for folk traditions peeks out from underneath an Instagrammable veneer.
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