“I’m reluctant to do things in a conventional way,” confesses singer Gregory Porter; “that may be why I gravitated to jazz in the first place.” Porter is able to sell out performing-arts centers on ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Gregory Beyer starts writing a few songs in the middle of this interview. His fingers drum the table to a 5/8 beat and then he air-guitars the fingerings for the melodies he’s humming with his high, ...