Oslo’s Aiming for Enrike accomplish a lot with a little: though they’re just a duo, armed with guitar, drums, and a small infantry of effects and loop pedals, they craft detailed, propulsive, dancy math-rock instrumentals. Their sound owes as much to dance punk as to prog rock, calling to mind complex, groove-based bands such as Battles, Trans Am, and Adebisi Shank. The two-piece are releasing their fourth LP, Music for Working Out, in January, and now they’re bringing their blistering dose of booty-moving beats to the U....

In 2001, Raws Schlesinger, a metal and punk drummer in Lincoln, Nebraska, embraced his leather-clad dance-music heart and founded Plack Blague—an industrial electronica project intended to unleash the rowdy gay headbanger inside every hard rocker. The project was initially something of a goof, but the audience for loud sexy gay disco proved to be bigger than anticipated. Nearly two decades later, Schlesinger continues to sweat and hump his way through albums and live shows with a never-failing barrage of floor-shaking single entendres....

Sports and art are typically worlds apart, but Marc Bamuthi Joseph pulls the two together in /peh-LO-tah/—A Futbol Framed Freedom Suite . . . , the new performance piece he brings to the Museum of Contemporary Art this weekend. During a trip to South Africa before the 2010 World Cup, Joseph saw soccer bring people from all over the world together, inspiring him to create a work that explores the global and personal impact of the game....

Welcome to the Reader’s morning briefing for Tuesday, June 7, 2016. After four years, Children’s Memorial Hospital has been demolished After closing four years ago and being at the center of a brutal aldermanic race last year, Children’s Memorial Hospital in Lincoln Park has finally been torn down. Seeing the long-abandoned building reduced to rubble was an emotional moment for former patients and their families, who gathered at the site Tuesday....

When I finally saw the film Moonlight—now nominated for six Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture-Drama—I couldn’t watch it with any sense of comfort or detachment. After about 45 minutes in the theater, I realized I’d been sitting with my fist balled up against my lips. I sat frozen like that until the lights came on. I came of age on Chicago’s south side as a young, black, queer person who often felt vulnerable about my place in the world....

Last week, animal lovers throughout the Chicago area were devastated by the news that a fire at Bully Life Animal Services (formerly known as D&D Dog Kennel), near the suburb of West Chicago, had taken the lives of more than 30 dogs. Firefighters were able to rescue over 20 more dogs. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Owner and operator Garrett Mercado, who lived in an apartment in the building, arrived home after the fire had started, and sustained injuries while opening hot cages....

I’d rather not describe New Jersey posthardcore heroes Thursday in nostalgic tones, but the group played such a part of my early musical development it’s hard not to. I was all of 17 when they flooded my world (or what I chose to understand as my world) through a $5 subscription to Alternative Press I purchased at the 2003 Warped Tour and the public-access music-video program where I first saw a grainy broadcast of the band’s cinematographically erratic video for their single “Signals Over the Air,” from their 2003 album War All the Time (Island/Def Jam)....

Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago. “Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly,” Coco Chanel famously said. “Be a caterpillar by day and butterfly by night.” Stylist, clothier, and model Lexi Kingery (@clear_bones) subverts Chanel’s rule by being a butterfly in the light. “I’m so sick of black and white,” she says. “Right now I’m giving you a mixture of 70s flow with some colorful 60s mod realness....

Early Tuesday morning, between 7:30 and 8 AM, approximately 200 women, some of them wearing cat ears and noses, and a few good men gathered at the corner of Wacker and Wabash. Many of them were carrying handmade signs they’d made out of posterboard. They gathered beneath the statue of George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Solomon and stood on the steps facing the street, holding up their signs. Even now, now that I know better and even have useful words to describe things that happen to me—”sexual harassment,” “microaggression,” “mansplaining,” terms that were invented because these things happen so often they might as well have names—I still don’t know how I could have responded to the boys in Hebrew school who felt so validated because of that stupid prayer....

In 1991, drummers Martin Atkins (Public Image Ltd, Ministry, Killing Joke) and William Rieflin (Ministry, KMFDM, Revolting Cocks) launched Chicago-based industrial supergroup Pigface, whose revolving-door lineup has since included literally dozens of musicians, including members of Swans, Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, the Jesus Lizard, and the Sugarcubes. During an epic, cameo-crazy set that Gossip Wolf caught at Metro in November 1994, it seemed like they all got onstage at some point!...

If the roots of Jewish humor are anger and disappointment, then the Chicago Cubs may be the funniest, most Semitic team in sports history. This helps to explain why Judith Sherwin is such a big Cubs fan. The 71-year-old attorney’s Rogers Park apartment and her Loop office are filled with Cubs memorabilia: a baseball signed by Ernie Banks, a jersey autographed by Sammy Sosa, Cubs teddy bears and other charms intended to help the team win....

Coffee is one of the reasons that more Guatemalans are caught trying to get into the United States than migrants from any other country. According to the Washington Post , the falling price of coffee has made it so difficult to eke out a living growing beans in Guatemala that even premium fair-trade prices paid by large buyers like Starbucks can’t stop workers from throwing up their hands and risking everything for better lives in the U....

Christmas is just a few weeks away, and a reader named Phil Huckelberry has come to me with an excellent idea. “Maybe,” he wrote me over the weekend, “what we should really all be buying each other this holiday season is journalism.” On Wednesday, November 30, pay for online access to a newspaper you read frequently. Buy a friend a subscription to an online or print magazine. Donate money to a nonprofit which does deep investigative reporting....

While wounds can be stitched and broken bones may mend, other types of injuries never fully heal; perhaps they linger as phantom pain or burrow deep into the brain’s pathways. It’s these imperceptible traumas—and the impossibility of recovery—that consume Julianna Barwick on her new fourth solo album, Healing Is a Miracle. The Los Angeles-based composer and vocalist cultivated her voice as a church chorister while growing up in Louisiana, and she began crafting her own music in the mid-2000s—building gauzy atmospheres in solitude with little more than her reverb-armored soprano....

The good news is that we can now read Robert Feder’s media blog for nothing. The bad news is that Feder—for the moment, at least—is now writing it for nothing, as the Tribune has stopped paying him a fee to put it behind its paywall. Feder had no more to say about those “business reasons,” much less about why no one should have been surprised the Trib showed him the door....

It’s no longer particularly remarkable when a rock band continues to soldier on more than four decades after it started, but it’s another matter when a group continues to produce strong new music rather than exploit nostalgia. David Thomas is the only member left from the original lineup of Pere Ubu, but despite the stunning cast of musicians that have played in the band over the years, including synthesizer master Allen Ravenstine and guitarist Jim Jones, among others, it would be hard to dispute that it’s always been his outfit—no element has defined the band’s music more than his slightly unhinged yawp....

Police close Kenneka Jenkins investigation, but family lawyer says photos of her body “raise more questions than answers” Law enforcement authorities in Rosemont have closed the investigation into the death of Kenneka Jenkins. Jenkins, 19, was found dead in a freezer at a Rosemont hotel September 10, and police have ruled her death accidental. There has been intense public interest in the case, most focused on foul play, and the photos released by officials have fueled further speculation about her death: “Frankly, the photos depicting how Kenneka was found raise more questions about what happened to Kenneka Jenkins than they answer,” Jenkins family lawyer Larry Rogers Jr....

The world is becoming more and more digitized, but choreographer Reggie Wilson doesn’t see technology as a threat to the dance world at least. On the contrary, “the more technology is present, people have more of a need for contact,” he says. “For physical relationships, and real present activity. Live activity.” For the past year, Wilson and his dance company, Fist + Heel Performance Group, have been touring with Citizen, a piece that uses extended solo performances to explore themes of identity and belonging....

Not only is 2020 the Year of Chicago Music, it’s also the 35th year for the nonprofit Arts & Business Council of Chicago (A&BC), which provides business expertise and training to creatives and their organizations citywide. To celebrate, the A&BC has launched the #ChiMusic35 campaign at ChiMusic35.com, which includes a public poll to determine the consensus 35 greatest moments in Chicago music history as well as a raffle to benefit the A&BC’s work supporting creative communities struggling with the impact of COVID-19 in the city’s disinvested neighborhoods....