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Film, Small Screen Sep 24, 2020
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We love TV: PEN15

Two television addicts talk about the all-too-relatable middle school cringe comedy.
- By Rima Parikh and Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Small Screen, PEN15, Hulu, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, AIM, AOL, middle school, theater kids, witchcraft, Video

News & Politics, The Ben Joravsky Show Sep 24, 2020
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Listen to The Ben Joravsky Show

The Ben Joravsky Show is streamed Tuesdays through Fridays between 1 and 3 PM and airs live on the Chicago Reader and Sun-Times websites. It is also released as a podcast each afternoon after the live show.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: The Ben Joravsky Show, podcasts, Ben Joravsky, Dennis Schetter, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 24, 2020
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Resurrection Band opened the gates for Christian hard rock

They arose from the Jesus movement in the early 70s and went on to help the modern Christian music industry break into MTV.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Resurrection Band, Rez Band, Rez, Glenn Kaiser, Christian rock, Christian music, Jesus movement, Jesus People USA, JPUSA, Stryper, Amy Grant, Cornerstone Festival, Jesus People Milwaukee, Jesus People USA Traveling Team, John Herrin Jr., Wendi Kaiser, Charity, Jim Denton, Music to Raise the Dead, All Your Life, Awaiting Your Reply, Star Song, Light Records, Sparrow Records, Grrr Records, Rainbow’s End, Tone Zone, Hostage, S.O.S., Love Comes Down, Roy Montroy, Silence Screams, Lament, Ty Tabor, King’s X, Ampendectomy, Swamp Gas Messiahs, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 23, 2020
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Annihilus uses black metal’s powers for good

Inspired by comic books and science fiction, the new album Ghanima proves that negative emotions can draw people together, not just drive wedges between them.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Music Feature, Annihilus, Ghanima, black metal, Luca Cimarusti, Heavy Times, Basic Cable, Luggage, Eternal Winter, Fire & Life, American Demise, American Dreams, Fantastic Four, Sandman, Marvel Comics, Dune, Frank Herbert, Denis Villeneuve, Jordan Reyes, The Vision, Tom King, Destroy the Future, Matthew, W.T.W.B., Fremen, Wormsong, Spoils of War, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 22, 2020
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Underground producer Steve Summers drops a 12-inch of sinister acid techno

Plus: Chicago rap crew Gold Standard Collective keep the faith on a new compilation, and Ester bandleader Anna Holmquist releases an EP written and recorded in a week.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Steve Summers, Clear, Counter-Factuals, Mutant Beat Dance, Beau Wanzer, Jason Letkiewicz, Melvin Oliphant, Traxx, Kitchen Clock, L.A. Club Resource, Delroy Edwards, Gold Standard Collective, Deli Slice, Philmore Greene, Thaione Davis, F.A.B.L.E., Since9ine6ix, Rashid Hadee, Neak, Ester, Weak, Weekly EP, Bad Songwriter Podcast, Anna Holmquist, Video

Sponsored Content: Nature’s Care Company (sponsored advertising) Sep 22, 2020
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When Chicago Speaks, Nature’s Care Listens

Meet the cannabis dispensary already proving to be a community leader
- Tags: Nature’s Care Company (sponsored advertising), cannabis, cannabis equity, expungement, social equity, Nature's Care, ColaGroup, Gary Little, Charles Amadin, Video, Sponsored

Music, Music Review Sep 21, 2020
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Napalm Death call for empathy and action in a troubled world on Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Review, Napalm Death, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism, Century Media, grindcore, Nazi Punks Fuck Off, Apex Predator—Easy Meat, Killing Joke, Recommended, Video

Music, The Listener Sep 21, 2020
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In 1995, Gillette and 20 Fingers were the rulers of the dance floor

“Short Dick Man” taps into a universal truth: pissing off jerks by insulting their penises is fun.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: The Listener, Gillette, 20 Fingers, Short Dick Man, Short Short Man, Carlos Rosario, Manfred Mohr, J.J. Flores, Onofrio Lollino, Manny Mohr, Charlie Babie, Sandra Gillette, B96, Xuxa Hits, On the Attack, hip-house, Video

News & Politics, Feature Sep 17, 2020
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That lockout you witnessed? It didn’t happen.

Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Eviction, police misconduct, lockout, lockouts, COVID-19, COVID, pandemic, housing, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Greenspire Realty, Greenspire, John Dragic, Steve Cain, Luis Lopez, Ronald Rufo, Lucas Cunningham, Officer Lucas Cunningham, Joshua Surgal, Officer Joshua Surgal, Rogers Park, 24th District, CPD 24th District, 24th District Commander Joseph Brennan, Joseph Brennan, 49th Ward, Maria Hadden, Alderwoman Maria Hadden, Farwell Avenue, broken windows policing, Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance, Robert Kahn, eviction court, witnesses, Cook County Sheriff, Sanford Kahn, Housing Issue, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 17, 2020
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Femdot pauses his rap career to help feed Chicago

Run through his nonprofit, Delacreme Scholars, the Scholars Slide By has delivered groceries to hundreds of people in need this summer.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Femdot, Femi Adigun, Delacreme Scholars, Scholars Slide By, Slide By, 94 Camry Music, Matt Muse, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, People’s Grab-N-Go, Feed the West Side, John Walt Foundation, rap, protest, mutual aid, hip-hop, Chicago Public Schools, Young Chicago Authors, Burke Elementary School, Dominique James, Nachelle Pugh, Frsh Waters, Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Jihad Kheperu, Pivot Gang, Delacreme 2, Closed Sessions, Lyrical Lemonade, Cole Bennett, Elliot Montanez, Tobi Lou, Pitchfork Music Festival, DePaul University, Puma, Siki Adigun, Kola Adigun, Seun Adigun, King Dilla, King Dilla Freestyle, Tamika Ponce, Qurissy Lopez, Toyota Camry, Killa Cam, Video

Music, Chicagoans of Note Sep 16, 2020
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Sandra Treviño, DJ and founder of Latin-music site Enchúfate

“I love that I can share the music that I love, and that once people hear it they're gonna love it too.”
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Chicagoans of Note, Sandra Treviño, Echúfate, Lumpen Radio, Vocalo, Future Rootz, Stephanie Manriquez, Ponderers, rock en español, Descarga, Hector Ivan Garcia, Errores no Eliminados, Latin alternative, cumbia, Radio One Chicago, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 15, 2020
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Noise-rock masters Uniform get even bigger, better, and darker on Shame
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Review, Uniform, Shame, Sacred Bones Records, noise-rock, industrial, drone, Michael Berdan, Ben Greenberg, Greg Fox, The Long Walk, Mike Sharp, Drunkdriver, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 14, 2020
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Synth-pop trio Le Couleur explore beauty through tragedy on Concorde
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Music Review, Lisbon Lux Records, Le Couleur, Concorde, Montreal, Quebec, French, synth-pop, Air France, Giorgio Moroder, Laurence Giroux-Do, Steeven Chouinard, Patrick Gosselin, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 11, 2020
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Big Branch make rock music with an underground-rap mindset
- By Jack Riedy
- Tags: Music Review, Big Branch, Cliff, Press Pot Recordings, hop 'n' roll, Jamal Semaan, Rob Lorts, Grimms & Blacknight, Brian Deck, Macie Stewart, Ohmme, Recommended, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 10, 2020
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Peter Berkow has spent five decades traversing at least that many genres

The Chicago native has been a producer and a professor, and moved from folk to funk to fusion to prog and back.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Peter Berkow, Peter Berkow & Friends, PBF, UIUC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Champaign, folk, prog, Experimental Music Studios, Dan Fogelberg, Red Herring, Mormos, Spoils of War, the Ship, Channing-Murray Foundation, Unitarian Universalist, Quadrangle, Steve Reinwand, Billy Panda, Folk Music From the Red Herring, Spin the Globe, Entropy Blues, Folk and Music From the Red Herring, RoFran, Rick Jarrard, Thesis, Elliott Delman, Corky Siegel, Peter Madcat Ruth, Rocky Maffit, Ron Dewar, California State University, Ylonda Nickell, Faculty Recital, Live at Cabo’s, Elliot Mazer, RSO Records, Such a Deal Records, Bootleg Demo, Rhythm Rowdys, Gordy Ohliger, Greatest Hits, PBS, Shasta College, Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Craven, Tricia Berkow, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 9, 2020
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Throwing Muses evolve their version of alt-rock on Sun Racket
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Music Review, Throwing Muses, Sun Racket, Fire Records, Rhode Island, Kristin Hersh, Tanya Donelly, postpunk, alt-rock, Leslie Langston, David Narcizo, 4AD, The Real Ramona, Kim Deal, Bernard Georges, 50 Foot Wave, Purgatory/Paradise, Recommended, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 8, 2020
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Johari Noelle addresses 2020’s overlapping crises with a socially distanced new video

Plus: Serengeti drops a non-Kenny Dennis acoustic album, and Ossemaan releases a very limited-edition CD accompanied by an original painting.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Johari Noelle, Time, Things You Can’t Say Out Loud, Chasing Destiny, Jeoffrey Arrington, Herf Yamaya, Mark Poiesz, Jackson Shepard, Matt Jones, Arianne Urban, Serengeti, Ajai, Ajai Epilogue, The Gentle Fall, Discoken 1979 Demos, Fake Four, Kenny Dennis, Keeyan Haack, Ossemaan, Dream, American Dreams Records, painting, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 7, 2020
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Paulette McWilliams’s A Woman’s Story shows why stars have always relied on her voice
- By Aaron Cohen
- Tags: Music Review, Paulette McWilliams, BluJazz, A Woman's Story, Rufus, Chaka Khan, Quincy Jones, Off the Wall, Get It Right, Harlettes, Bette Midler, Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, singer, R&B, Kamau Kenyatta, Etienne Charles, Recommended, Video

Music, The Listener Sep 7, 2020
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Why isn’t anyone reissuing Karate records?

Sixteen years after the Boston band’s final studio release, their influential music—which blends emo, slowcore, and jazz—is entirely out of print.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: The Listener, Karate, Boston, Pockets, WBRS, emo, slowcore, Geoff Farina, Small Fires, Unsolved, Southern Records, John Loder, Cellar Door Provisions, Last Kind Words, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 3, 2020
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Spektral Quartet’s Experiments in Living upends the timeline to stake out a fresh vantage point
- By Hannah Edgar
- Tags: Music Review, Spektral Quartet, Experiments in Living, New Focus Recordings, classical music, new music, contemporary composition, shuffle, Tarot, ØjeRum, Brahms, Sam Pluta, George Lewis, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Anthony Cheung, Charmaine Lee, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 3, 2020
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Andrew Kitchen’s boogie strikes back

The Soul Train veteran and host of Attack of the Boogie celebrates the reissue of his dance show’s 1984 theme song.
- By Jake Austen
- Tags: Music Feature, Andrew Kitchen, Attack of the Boogie, Soul Train, Attack of the Chicago Boogie, Star Creature Universal Vibrations, Dick Clark, American Bandstand, Don Cornelius, A Black’s View of the News, Kiddie A-Go-Go, Chic-a-Go-Go, Kitchen the Dancin’ Magician, Dancin’ Magicians, WCIU, WJYS, Red Hot & Blues, Big Bill Hill, Chicago Access Network Television, CAN TV, Clinton Ghent, Jacqueline Stewart, Kelly Kuvo, Elma and Company, Soul in the Hole, Avery R. Young, Filipino Bandstand, John Q. Adams, John Q’s Entertainment Scene, Pinball Wizard, Arthritis, Rheumatism, Bursitis, Cupcake, Sugar, Spice, Masquerader, the Kicks, Southside Equators, Hot Ice, the Puppets, Midnight Special, Wolfman Jack, Ten Commandments, Dancing Superheroes, High Chaparral, Flipside, Ron Briskman’s Hideout, Kitchen’s Dancin’ Magicians, Ray Rayner and His Friends, Kidding Around, Bozo, U Dance With B96, Panos Productions, Jerry Bryant, JBTV, Melvin Dunlap, Melvin “the Alexander” Dunlap, Power Dance Circle, Planet of the Little Boogies, Rhythm People, Mavis Staples, Ginuwine, Common, Tim Zawada, Hersh Singh, Hersh “Kool Hersh” Singh, Kool Hersh, Boogie Munsters, Mr. Peabody, Kstarke, Lumpen Radio, Mario Smith, Nieci Payne, Jerry Soto, Kitchen, the Dancin’ Magician (Master of Love), Fox Century Plaza, Boogie Down With Me, Super Sessions of the 80’s, Elayne Coleman, Ben Marcus, Rob Sevier, Conservatory Vintage & Vinyl, Attack of the Boogie Reloaded, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 2, 2020
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L.A. Witch make you yearn for carefree times on the genre shifting Play With Fire
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Review, L.A. Witch, Play With Fire, Suicide Squeeze Records, COVID-19, indie rock, power pop, Sade Sanchez, I Wanna Lose, mixtapes, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Sep 1, 2020
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Half Gringa’s empathetic alt-country harnesses the power of understatement
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Half Gringa, Force to Reckon, alt-country, country music, singer-songwriter, Venezuela, Isabel Olive, Afraid of Horses, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Aug 31, 2020
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LaSalle Grandeur’s sanguine songs can lift your pandemic-rattled spirits
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, LaSalle Grandeur, Happily Depressed, Euphoric, pop music, rap, Euphoria, hip-hop, Oak Park, Emotional, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Aug 31, 2020
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The personal and spiritual growth doesn’t stop in Burna Boy’s Twice as Tall
- By Janaya Greene
- Tags: Music Review, Burna Boy, Twice as Tall, Spaceship Entertainment, Atlantic Records, Warner Music, Africa, London, UK, Nigeria, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, African Giant, Naughty By Nature, Pop Smoke, Recommended, Video

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