Leor Galil

Singer Maria Manow and producer Ike Clateman traffic in extremes.

Laughing Bee drops live records by Eleventh Dream Day and Naked Raygun, emo band Nymb reissue their whole catalog, and Tone Deaf celebrates seven years.

Marvin Tate drops an intimate new album, the Resonance music platform hosts its first live show, Hard Femme play a belated record-release party, and more.

Plus: Squirrel Flower and Brinstarr play free record-release shows the same night, and Music Direct hosts a giant CD sale.

Photographer Braeden Long captured four of the six Nitro-a-Go-Go shows, not one of which was held in a conventional venue.

Discord ripples through American Football (LP 4) like the rumbling of distant thunder.

Social media and streaming have changed who can book shows and how. Those new incentives might even convince a local band to play a hot-dog joint.

Plus: New York label Fire Talk launches its concert-finding app in Chicago, the G.E.T.O. DJz throw a daylong west-side house-music party, and more.

Lollapalooza is among the many festivals organized by Austin-based promoter C3 Presents, and C3 Presents is owned by Live Nation, the largest multinational corporation in the concert business.

Last year, Chicago microlabel Black Dice Records started releasing small-run CDs by fringe screamo bands. The label has branched out into cassettes too, including with the March reissue of Considerations 3, a mathy, metalcore-influenced 2025 album by New York City group Silverdollar. Black Dice has also done impressive work booking and promoting shows across a […]