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Music, Gig Poster of the Week Mar 31, 2021
Celebrating women’s solidarity through culture on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was created by Chicago-via-Indiana photographer and designer Adeleine Prairie Sinsabaugh.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, gig poster, events, streaming, online, HotHouse, Haymarket Books, International Women's Day, women musicians, culture, Angel Bat Dawid, ¡Activista!, spoken word, readings, Farah Siraj, Irma Pineda, Natu Camara

Music, Chicagoans of Note Mar 18, 2021
Video
Alejandro Ayala, aka King Hippo, DJ and producer

“You bring people together and something will always happen. . . . The how is pretty easy, but the why is more important to me.”
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Chicagoans of Note, Alejandro Ayala, King Hippo, the Whistler, Sleeping Village, COVID-19, Japan, records, radio, Lumpen Radio, Worldwide FM, Royal Sessions, Sura Dupart, Silver Room, Angel Bat Dawid, Isaiah Collier, Julian Otis, Jeremy Warren, Kennedy Banks, Preservation of Fire, Millennium Park at Home: Chicago Jazz, Billy Helmkamp, After School Matters, Sura Dupart, Joe Bryl, Video

City Life, Public Service Announcement Feb 26, 2021
Celebrating Black achievements

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, Jim O'Rourke, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Hereaclitus, COVID-19, Experimental Sound Studio, Ken Vandermark, Black History Month, DuSable Museum, Que4 Radio, Angel Bat Dawid, Sam Trump, Brandon Breaux, Smithsonian, Ella Jenkins, Printed Matter, Almighty and Insane Books, Candor Arts, Half Letter Press, Mariame Kaba, Soberscove

Music, Music Review Feb 19, 2021
Recommended
German indie veterans the Notwist draw from Chicago’s jazz community for the new Vertigo Days
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, The Notwist, Vertigo Days, Morr Music, Germany, jazz, indie rock, Messier Objects, Superheroes, Ghostvillains & Stuff, Angel Bat Dawid, Ben LaMar Gay, Markus Acher, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 8, 2020
Rapper Matt Muse runs a second Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive

Plus: A new local compilation benefits Chicago Community Jail Support, and former youth poet laureate Kara Jackson releases a Christmas EP.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Matt Muse, Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive, Silver Room, Trap House Chicago, Love & Nappyness, Chicago Community Jail Support, Warm Violet, Ohmme, Angel Bat Dawid, Ratboys, Into It. Over It., Half Gringa, Kara Jackson, Xmas Demos, A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart, youth poet laureate

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 10, 2020
Video
Hardcore four-piece Wrong War show Trumpism the door

Plus: Oui Ennui puts out a new ambient EP and a collaboration with Angel Bat Dawid, and Hieroglyphic Being drops his tenth new release since July.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Wrong War, Fixed Against Forever, Matt Weeks, Patrick Keenan, Dave Pawlowski, Dan Smith, First Shot Misses, Dan Dinello, Pink Triangles Rising, Bryan Dinello, Oui Ennui, Daoui, Jonn Wallen, Message From the Daoui, (Nos)+Algebra, 1063 Prospect Blvd., Angel Bat Dawid, Hieroglyphic Being, Jamal Moss, The Pleiadian Agenda, 4 the Ones Who Know, Video

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2020
Video
Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID

The city is replacing its traditional huge outdoor affair with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Millennium Park at Home: Jazz Music, Jazz Postcards, pandemic, coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, DCASE, Jazz Showcase, Green Mill, Constellation, Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Quarantine Concerts, Option Series, Catalytic Sound, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Adam Zanolini, Kate Dumbleton, Peter Margasak, Solo Impro Festival, Doek Festival, Cristina Marx, Millennium Park Summer Music Series, Jon Langford, Sam Trump, Zeshan B, Mucca Pazza, the Promontory, Dee Alexander, Khari B., Junius Paul Quartet, Souleyes—An Exercise in Reconstruction, Jazz Festival Citywide, Citywide Jazz, Midway Plaisance, University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts, Bobby Broom Trio, Tito Carrillo Quintet, Twin Talk, Nick Mazzarella Trio, Abigail Riccards, Von Freeman, Clifford Jordan, Fred Hersch Trio, Muhal Richard Abrams, Experimental Band, Myra Melford, Angel Bat Dawid, Corey Wilkes, Greg Ward, Tomeka Reid, Avreeayl Ra, Joshua Abrams, HPJF, Video

Music, Music Review Aug 25, 2020
Recommended
The Awakening’s reissue of 1972’s Hear, Sense and Feel still uplifts through jazz and R&B
- By Aaron Cohen
- Tags: Music Review, Real Gone Music, The Awakening, Hear, Sense, and Feel, AACM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Black Jazz, Ken Cheney, Frank Gordon, Young-Holt Unlimited, Ari Brown, Steve Galloway, Reggie Willis, Mirage, Angel Bat Dawid, Recommended

Music, Gig Poster of the Week Aug 12, 2020
Creative collisions on the gig poster of the week

This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist and performer Cristal Sabbagh with assistance from Natalya Sturlis and Scott Rubin.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, gig poster, gig poster of the week, dance, improvisation, performance, Elastic Arts, Cristal Sabbagh, livestream, concerts, Angel Bat Dawid, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Adam Zanolini

Music, Music Feature Apr 2, 2020
Video
Pianist Charles Joseph Smith celebrates companionship and solitude in a new video

“Flourishing Cities of Undead” was shot late last year in the empty Fine Arts Building, with special guest star Angel Bat Dawid.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Music Feature, Dr. Charles Joseph Smith, Charles Joseph Smith, piano, composer, pianist, video, War of the Martian Ghosts, Flourishing Cities of Undead, Fine Arts Building, Mississippi Records, Cyrus Moussavi, Brittany Nugent, Raw Music International, Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Angel Bat Dawid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Roosevelt University, National Autism Awareness Month, Sooper Records, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 7, 2020
Video
Noname’s Book Club suggests libraries instead on National Fuck Amazon Day

Plus: Led Zeppelin 2 tour to celebrate Led Zeppelin III, and guitarist and composer Kevin and Hell drops a new record at his birthday party.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Noname, Noname’s Book Club, National Fuck Amazon Day, Amazon, library, library card, libraries, Led Zeppelin 2, House of Blues, Led Zeppelin III, Bruce Lamont, Yakuza, Bloodiest, Greg Fundis, Matthew Longbons, Paul Kamp, Busker Soundcheck, Kevin and Hell, Angel Bat Dawid, Tommas Moretti, Bernice’s, Midwest Action, Natalie Lande, Sounds of an Electric Fantasy, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 16, 2019
Video
Eye Vybe Records doesn’t need you to pretend Christmas is fun

Plus: The FeelTrip crew wrap up their Reptilian Traxx party series, and Comfort Station throws a holiday benefit show with a dazzling lineup.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Eye Vybe Records, Alone in Logan on Christmas Eve, Cat Mullins & Them Boys, Magic Ian, Molasses Chicago, Cafe Mustache, Bric-a-Brac, Burlington, Chicago Diner, FeelTrip Records, David Beltran, Diana Bowden, Slippery Slope, No Requests, Reptilian Traxx, Steve Poindexter, DJ Hii, Druid Beat, DYB, Comfort Station, Holiday Concert Benefit, Angel Bat Dawid, Bill MacKay, Ohmme, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 30, 2019
Slideshow
Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival

The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
- By Philip Montoro and Michael Jackson
- Tags: Music Feature, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Society, photos, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, jazz, Angel Bat Dawid, Requiem for Jazz, Isaiah Collier, The Story of 400 Years, Karuna, Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph, Mary Halvorson, MacArthur, Sylvie Courvoisier, Greg Ward, Ambrose Akinmusire, Amir ElSaffar, Tia Fuller, Dana Hall, Spring, Dee Alexander, Maggie Brown, Sam Trump, Orbert Davis, Ari Brown, Juan Pastor, Pharez Whitted, Project Tool, Tito Carillo, Nick Mazzarella, Quin Kirchner, Tia Fuller, Kate Dumbleton, Slideshow

Music, Music Feature Aug 22, 2019
The Jazz Festival’s orbit bustles with too much music for one weekend

Its ten days of neighborhood concerts, satellite shows, and aftersets include Kidd Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker, Marc Ribot, and Ben Sidran.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, aftershows, satellite shows, neighborhood concerts, Dog/Days, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Jazz Showcase, Ira Sullivan, Angel Bat Dawid, Resavoir, Kidd Jordan, Preservation of Fire, Elastic Arts, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Ernest Dawkins, Live the Spirit Residency, Transition East, South Side Jazz Coalition, Fred Anderson, Birdhouse, JD Allen, Marc Ribot, Cooper-Moore, Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Akenya, Akenya Seymour, Bill MacKay, Jeff Parker, Paul Giallorenzo, Ben Sidran, Douglas Ewart, Jim Baker, Kent Kessler, Mike Reed

Music, Concert Preview Aug 8, 2019
Recommended
George Lewis is the guest of honor at this year’s Experimental Sound Studio Gala
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Concert Preview, Experimental Sound Studio, George Lewis, George E. Lewis, Columbia University, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, A Power Stronger Than Itself, Mwata Bowden, Angel Bat Dawid, Ken Vandermark, Sam Pluta, Rob Mazurek, Claire Rousay, Douglas Ewart, Douglas R. Ewart, Recommended

News & Politics, News Jun 25, 2019
The gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police is now an outdoor memorial in Chicago

On what would have been Rice’s 17th birthday, we chart the journey of the structure that his mother can still picture him playing under.
- By Matt Ford
- Tags: News, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice, Stony Island Arts Bank, Theaster Gates, Rebuild Foundation, Avery R. Young, Yaw Agyeman, Angel Bat Dawid, Billy Joe Mills, Gregg L. Greer

Music, In Rotation Mar 11, 2019
Video
DJ and producer Ariel Zetina on a beautifully transgressive Portuguese beat genius

Plus: photographer Julia Dratel on a sound artist with an ear for ecology, Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig on a documentary that gives Sam Cooke’s death the close look it deserved, and more
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: In Rotation, Julia Dratel, Ariel Zetina, Smart Bar, Deafkids, Metaprogramação, Adia Victoria, Silences, ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Sam Cooke, murder, documentary, Liz Pelly, Spotify, The Baffler, Norman W. Long, Angel Bat Dawid, Electro-Acoustic Dubcology I-IV, Labelle, Moon Shadow, Nona Hendryx, Cat Stevens, Sunday’s News, Odete, Matrafona, Naive, Naivety, Lisbon, Stop Despejos, Central Air Radio, WHPK, Jared Brown, Futurehood, Nymphowars, podcast, Macy Rodman, Theda Hammel, Hamm, Video

Music, Music Feature Jan 31, 2019
Video
Angel Bat Dawid taps into the root of all black music

The cofounder of Chicago’s Participatory Music Coalition talks about the improvisation and inspiration that shaped her new album, The Oracle.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Angel Bat Dawid, Angel Elmore, The Oracle, International Anthem, jazz, improvised music, the Brothahood, Elastic Arts, Ben LaMar Gay, Jaimie Branch, Makaya McCraven, Damon Locks, Black Monument Ensemble, Participatory Music Coalition, Hyde Park Records, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, David Boykin, Sonic Healing Ministries, Adam Zanolini, Viktor Le Givens, Hyde Park Records, Norman Long, Xris Espinoza, Julian Otis, Isaiah Collier, Asher Simiso Gamedze, What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black, We Are Starzz, Winter Jazzfest, Radcliffe W. Hunter House, Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Bronzeville, Sapphire and Crystals, Reverend Shahar Weaver, B’Rael Ali Thunder, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Margaret Burroughs, Griffiths-Burroughs House, South Side Community Art Center, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, DeLundon, impepho, gqom, Scottie McNiece, Video

Music, In Rotation Jun 13, 2018
Drummer and composer Bill Harris on a Chicago iconoclast who can make an album feel like an epic film

Current musical obsessions of drummer and composer Bill Harris, clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid, and Reader music critic Peter Margasak
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: In Rotation, Abu Obaida Hassan, Shaigiya Sound of Sudan, Sudan, tambour, Vik Sohonie, Omdurman, Daleeb, Misha Mengelberg, Pech Onderweg, Instant Composers Pool, ICP, Bvhaast, Willem Breuker, International Nothing, In Doubt We Trust, Kai Fagaschinski, Michael Thieke, Bill Harris, Ben LaMar Gay, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun, Ryley Walker, Deafman Glance, Primrose Green, ZRL, Lia Kohl, Zach Good, Ryan Packard, Angel Bat Dawid, Marvin Tate, Kitchen Sink, N Word, Black Bike Ride, Gira Dahnee, A Call to Love, Future Geechee, Culture Power45

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