What Happens When You Cancel a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opera By Graham Meyer The coronavirus hit America at the worst possible moment for Lyric Opera. Read more
The Six-Hour Experimental Opera Happening on Zoom By Hannah Edgar More than 250 performers will participate in "Full Pink Moon," a streamed version of an opera by composer Pauline Oliveros. Read more
Listen to Nnamdï During This Quarantine for the Love of God By Jack Riedy Brat drops April 3. Read more
Mute Duo Makes Music Like No One Else By Eli Winter The offbeat project, whose first LP comes out Friday, marries percussion and pedal steel guitar. Read more
Tim Kinsella: I Barely Made It Out of Italy By Tim Kinsella After two months performing around the country, the Chicago musician, writing from self-quarantine, recounts its wildfire coronavirus outbreak. Read more
Quiz: Weed Strain or Chicago Band? By Grace Perry Beach Bunny, Retirement Party, Grapetooth, and more. Read more
Frequency Fest 2020 Dials in Artists from Around the Globe By Graham Meyer This year's iteration includes rare stateside retrospectives of groundbreaking composers Annea Lockwood and Éliane Radigue. Read more
A Digital Encyclopedia of Chicago’s Black Music History By Jacob Arnold A multimedia project by Vince Lawrence retraces four eras that shaped the city's sound, from 1955 to 1990. Read more
Alex Temple Makes Music out of Dream Logic By Hannah Edgar The composer of “Behind the Wallpaper” on David Lynch, her love affair with the surreal, and suburbia's shadowy underbelly Read more
What’s It Like to Play a String Quartet in the Dark? By Graham Meyer JACK Quartet violinist Austin Wulliman on the unconventional piece hitting the Logan Center this Friday Read more