Sjel Chicago harpist Omar Coleman plays Rosa’s Lounge on Sunday. The city’s blues clubs will be going strong throughout the festival, and at least a few venues that don’t typically focus on the blues will get in on the action. On Saturday, Reggie’s Music Joint hosts Muddy Waters’s son Mud Morganfield, a participant in Sunday’s Muddy tribute at Petrillo; on Sunday evening, Chicago elder statesman Jimmy Johnson will hold forth there....

If you’ve never experienced Wovenhand live, I highly recommend taking this opportunity to remedy that. This Colorado-based roots-rock quartet, fronted by singer-songwriter David Eugene Edwards (who previously led the singularly great country-gothic roots-rock band 16 Horsepower), play with a tent-revival fervor that’ll have your hair standing on end—you’ll be ready to believe Edwards just got done hallucinating in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. Mysterious to the last, they play their cards close to their chest, but they’ve nearly finished their ninth studio album, the follow-up to 2016’s Star Treatment (a short video posted to Facebook hints at something spectacular), and they’ll preview new material on this tour....

When Mutoid Man formed in 2012 it seemed its goal was simply to shred; and shred it did. Originally conceived as the two-piece of Stephen Brodsky of prog-rock-space-metal act Cave In on guitar and vocals and Ben Koller of obtuse artcore legends Converge on drums, Mutoid Man took the most over-the-top elements of their other bands and ran with them—combining eight-armed drumming, mind-numbing time-shifts, spaced-out guitar wizardry, and theatrical vocal hooks....

Do Division Street Fest This staple street fest showcases rock, punk, pop, experimental music, and more. Acts include Peanut Butter Wolf, A Place to Bury Strangers, Beach Fossils, and Nikki Lane. 6/3-6/5, Division between Damen and Hoyne, do-divisionstreetfest.com, $5 suggested donation. Chicago Blues Festival Shemekia Copeland, Fred Wesley, and Diunna Greenleaf are among the headliners at the event that calls itself the largest free blues festival in the world. 6/10-6/12, Grant Park, chicagobluesfestival....

Capturing the tortured angst involved in the process of creation is difficult to achieve honestly and empathetically. The inherently selfish act of indulging in creativity and desiring a tangible legacy is viewed with suspicion at best by nonartists, and reviled at worst. Engrossing and meticulously plotted, the Goodman’s production of How to Catch Creation is lightning caught in a bottle, an absolute triumph for director Niegel Smith and his exquisite ensemble....

Q: I’m in a D/s relationship with a partner who owns my cock. We’ve purchased several male chastity devices, but I can pretty easily get out of them. My partner did some investigating and learned that the only effective devices work with a Prince Albert piercing—a ring through the head of the penis that locks into the device, preventing the sub from pulling his cock out. My partner now wants me to get a PA....

Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill is just 23, but there’s already plenty of weight attached to his name. His father is the acclaimed, innovative Latin jazz bandleader and pianist Arturo O’Farrill, and his grandfather was the great Afro-Cuban bandleader Chico. He began to forge his own path early on in his career, making waves playing alongside saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa on the latter’s 2015 album Bird Calls (ACT) and establishing himself as an improviser of protean strength and melodic clarity....

When The Americans—which I came to think of as possibly the best TV show I’d ever watched—came to its conclusion last week, I looked back at what I’d written in 2013 when it was new and, in my view, pretty silly. I quoted le Carré reflecting on the novel that made him famous: “The merit of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, then—or its offense, depending where you stood—was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible....

Ty Segall and his crew are notoriously prolific. Segall himself is constantly releasing new records and announcing new projects, and over the years, his sidemen have started stepping out into the spotlight themselves, most notably Mikal Cronin with his albums of bubbly, baroque pop. Now it’s Charles Moothart’s turn: the guitarist for the Ty Segall Band and Fuzz is now fronting his own project, CFM, and its first tune has crept out of the shadows....

Bow down to It Came from Outer Space, the OG mother of all alien blockbusters. Since invading movie theaters nearly 70 years ago, the film (based on an original story by Ray Bradbury) has helped cement the genre’s place in the zeitgeist. It has left its influence on everything from Alien to Star Wars to Star Trek to your Uncle Bob’s conspiracy theories about the Bermuda Triangle and Area 51....

Philip Montoro Music editor Anna They’re one of the youngest on the bill, if not the youngest; lead singer Kelli Mayo is 19. Leor Monarchy Over Monday show a lot of promise—they’ve clearly listened to the Misfits quite a bit. They’re gonna open things Saturday, which is a great way for Riot Fest to invest in the newer generation the same way they did when they booked Twin Peaks for their first festival gig....

Steppenwolf Theatre’s robust Garage Rep, in which the mighty Lincoln Park institution hands over its handsome 80-seat Garage Theatre—as well as production and publicity teams—to three substantially less-than-mighty local companies for nine weeks, has traditionally been something of a free-for-all. It’s never mattered whether the shows had anything to do with one another, hewed to any particular aesthetic, or offended anyone’s tastes. If a chosen company wanted to try it out, it was in....

Cindy Eigler and Aislinn Pulley are co-executive directors of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, which seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The center’s Survivor Family Advisory Council also contributed to this piece. The survivors we work with at the center underwent the most hideous and inhumane violence at the hands of the police and spent decades in prison taken from their families and communities—and yet, the pain they describe most often is the pain of telling their stories of being harmed, being dismissed and disbelieved....

Chicago multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Vivian McCall helped turn Andrew Smith’s bedroom project, Jungle Green, into a bona fide six-piece band when she joined in 2017. Since they all began playing together, she’s engineered sessions for projects by the band’s other members, and she’s also stepped out on her own with her self-titled solo debut as Pansy. The nine-track album came out early this month via Earth Libraries, a label in Birmingham, Alabama, whose catalog includes punk, experimental, and lo-fi music....

Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.

Local television legend Rich Koz doesn’t need an introduction to most of our readers, especially when he is dressed as his character Svengoolie, wearing his classic raccoon-eyed ghoulish face paint and top hat. But many might not realize that he’s been working in Chicago broadcasting since the 70s. Koz is the affable and spooky host of Svengoolie, the long-running Chicago television program that airs classic horror, sci-fi, and B movies intersected with comedy and trivia by Svengoolie, his friends, and an arsenal of rubber chickens....

Broadcast on German TV in the early 70s but never before released in the U.S., Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s five-part miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day arrives like a gift from the movie gods. Not only is it a major work from the trailblazing German filmmaker—indeed, his most ambitious project prior to Berlin Alexanderplatz in 1980—it also showcases a side of Fassbinder revealed only fleetingly in his films. Generous and humane, the series may be the only Fassbinder work whose characters are, for the most part, well-adjusted and happy....

As Klaus Johann Grobe, Swiss musicians Sevi Landolt (organ, synths, vocals) and Daniel Bachmann (drums, vocals) play groove rock that feels full despite its minimalist arrangements. Because they sing in German and build their songs atop sparse, hypnotically repetitive rhythms, Americans tend to describe Klaus Johann Grobe’s music as Krautrock, but the group begs to differ: “We’ve never been that much into Krautrock to be honest,” Landolt told Pitchfork in 2014....

Even when they trade in quotations, the films of Jean-Luc Godard exude a sense of spontaneity. The Swiss filmmaker has never been able to stay put on an idea or story line for very long; his work always goes off in unexpected directions or sprouts up non sequiturs. A possible explanation for the films’ eccentric forms is that Godard has always embraced chance, coincidence, and arbitrary decisions as a core part of his creative practice....