The Mirror

Elsa Harris has followed gospel into the orbits of pop stars ↗

Chicago Reader
?
📰Chicago Reader••🇺🇸

Singer-songwriter Jana Horn goes all in on her new self-titled album ↗

On her self-titled third album, singer-songwriter Jana Horn contemplates grief while contending with the trick mirrors of life’s unending changes.
?
📰
Chicago Reader··🇺🇸

The Frequency Festival connects a far-flung constellation of sounds ↗

The 2026 Frequency Festival draws a line through one-bit electronics, Scottish balladry, musically hybrid fictional history, and more.
?
📰
Chicago Reader
·🇺🇸
Beginning January 1, the City of Chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit.

‘An impossible situation’ ↗

?
Mozart's Così fan tutte at Lyric Opera is like opening a heart-shaped box of delicious eye and ear candy for Valentine's Day.
?

Seriously silly, also sublime ↗

📰Chicago Reader••🇺🇸
📰
Chicago Reader
·🇺🇸
Salty, marbled nuggets topped with chopped red onion, bracing cilantro, and a fat avocado wedge, spiked with lime and lashings of chipotle or tomatillo salsa
?

Carne asada tacos at No Pasa Nada ↗

📰
Chicago Reader
·🇺🇸
Time Thieves have kicked off 2026 by compiling two EPs on a full-length vinyl LP, which showcases the band’s duality.
?

Chicago power poppers Time Thieves are a band of many moods ↗

📰
Chicago Reader••🇺🇸

Rising musician, organizer, and engineer Ishmael Ali finally leads a band ↗

On his debut solo LP, Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper, which came out last month on Amalgam, Ishmael Ali affirms his mischievous inclination to mash all his musical interests together.
?