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Music, Music Review Feb 22, 2021
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R&B wizard Pink Sweat$ will take over the galaxy with his Pink Planet
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Music Review, Pink Sweat$, Pink Planet, Atlantic Records, R&B, pop music, Philadelphia, David Bowden, Sigma Sound Studios, Tierra Whack, Volume 1, Human Resources, Honesty, At My Worst, 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

Music, Music Feature Apr 8, 2020
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Did John Prine die for Donald Trump’s sins?

The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response have cost the life of a beloved singer-songwriter who stood against all those things.
- By Mark Guarino
- Tags: Music Feature, John Prine, obituary, obit, RIP, death, died, coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore, Some Humans Ain’t Human, Bruce Springsteen, Miranda Lambert, Rodney Crowell, Bon Iver, Robbie Fulks, Maywood, Proviso East High School, Melrose Park, Old Town School of Folk Music, Earl of Old Town, Somebody Else’s Troubles, Steve Goodman, Holstein’s, Ed Holstein, Fred Holstein, A Good Time, Fifth Peg, Andrew Calhoun, Waterbug Records, Atlantic Records, Donald and Lydia, Sam Stone, Hello in There, Bob Dylan, Angel From Montgomery, Mark Dvorak, The Tree of Forgiveness, Grammy, Lifetime Achievement Award, In Spite of Ourselves, Josh Caterer, Smoking Popes, Margo Price, Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Jason Isbell, Roger Waters, My Morning Jacket, Paul Westerberg, Bettye LaVette, Swamp Dogg, Pete Seeger, Slicker Sam’s, Sweet Revenge, Video

Music, Concert Preview Jan 24, 2020
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YBN Cordae sounds like he could charm the entire music industry on The Lost Boy
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, YBN Cordae, Cordae Dunston, Entendre, Towson University, hip-hop, Prince George’s County, Maryland, TGI Fridays, YBN, Rolling Loud, The Lost Boy, Atlantic Records, Grammys, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Jun 3, 2019
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Bettye LaVette can make any song sound like it was written for her

She debuted with a hit soul single in 1962, but she’s long since transcended genre, singing blues, country, pop, funk, rock, and more.
- By Bill Dahl
- Tags: Music Feature, Bettye LaVette, Chicago Blues Festival, Things Have Changed, Bob Dylan, Motown, Atlantic Records, I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise, Detroit, Muskegon, Aimee Mann, Sinéad O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, Dolly Parton, Fiona Apple, The Scene of the Crime, Muscle Shoals, Drive-By Truckers, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, Timmy Shaw, Johnnie Mae Matthews, My Man—He’s a Lovin’ Man, Let Me Down Easy, Calla, Shindig!, He Made a Woman Out of Me, Atco, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Mar 14, 2017
No less a bluesman than Muddy Waters called Forest City Joe a ‘great harp player’

Blues harpist Forest City Joe might be a legend today if he’d recorded more—or lived long enough to enjoy the 1960s blues revival.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Forest City Joe, Forrest City Joe, blues, harmonica, Joe Bennie Pugh, Hughes, Arkansas, Forrest City, John Lee Williamson, Rice Miller, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Joe Williams, Aristocrat Records, Chess Records, Muddy Waters, J.C. Coles, Memory of Sonny Boy, A Woman on Every Street, Howlin' Wolf, Memphis, Three Aces, Willie Love, Otis Spann, Tick Tock Lounge, South Ellis Avenue, Horseshoe Lake, Alan Lomax, Atlantic Records

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 22, 2016
Power-pop heroes Off Broadway narrowly missed stardom

Off Broadway reunited most recently to celebrate their 35th anniversary in 2012, so don't count them out yet.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Off Broadway, T.S. Henry Webb Group, On, Stay in Time, Quick Turns, All Messed Up and Ready to Go, Pezband, Big Guitars From Memphis, John Pazdan, Dan Santercola, Paul McDermott, Cliff Johnson, Deborah McManus, Paul Darrow, John Ivan, Robert Harding, Atlantic Records, the Insiders, power pop

Music, Music Feature May 5, 2014
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Five honors students from Chicago rap's freshman class

Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, and ZMoney all have new mixtapes that should light the fuses on their careers.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, rap, hip-hop, drill music, Chief Keef, south side, World Star Hip Hop, Noisey, WTTW, Chicago Tonight, Chance the Rapper, MCs, Rolling Stone, Spin, Drake, bop, west side, Sicko Mobb, Dlow, Tink, Atlantic Records, Sony, WGCI, Lil Kemo, Timaland, Lucki Ecks, Danny Brown, Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, ZMoney, Village crew, Reggie's, YouMedia Center, Harold Washington Library, Alex Wiley, Kembe X, Village collective, Closed Sessions, Jean Deaux, Glass Animals, Top Dawg Entertainment, Isaiah Rashad, TDE, Schoolboy Q, Action Bronson, Freddie Gibbs, GLC, Vic Mensa, Arctic Moneys, samples, Ozzy Osbourne, Ludacris, sheep, howler monkeys, flow, lyrics, mixtapes, Alex Fruchter, Saba, Tahj Chandler, Young Chicago Authors, Frsh Waters, Pivot Gang, Joseph Chilliams, John Walt, MFn Melo, Sway Swala, Kevo B, Smack, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Cam Osteen, Spenzo, Demarius Johnson, DJ Deeon, ghetto-house, Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church, Dance Mania, Young Chop, beats, Joakim Noah, Englewood, The Clinic, E, Kanye West, Crucial Conflict, A$AP Mob, L.E.P., Bogus Boys, Taylor Bennett, Bronzeville, Urban Prep Academy, Ken Williams-Bennett, King Louie, Roseland, country music, R&B, ZMoney, Zernando Tate, Emma's, recording studios, prison, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 27, 2013
The Secret History of Chicago Music: LaVern Baker

This powerful R&B singer helped shape rock 'n' roll with her raucous 1956 smash "Jim Dandy."
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, blues, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Delores LaVern Baker, Merline Johnson, Club DeLisa, Little Miss Sharecropper, Eddie "Sugarman" Penigar, Todd Rhodes, King Records, Atlantic Records, Georgia Gibbs, R&B, 1950s, Ed Sullivan, Alan Freed, Jackie Wilson, Bessie Smith, Chicago Blues Festival, 1980s

Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "Sunflower," a scorching forgotten gem from Eleventh Dream Day

A ripping preview of New Moodio, a previously unissued collection of Eleventh Dream Days later rerecorded for El Moodio
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Eleventh Dream Day, New Moodio, El Moodio, Atlantic Records, Danny Goldberg, Brad Wood, Sunflower, Two Sweeties, Comedy Minus One, Matthew "Wink" O'Bannon, 12 O'Clock Track, Audio

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2011
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Lupe Fiasco Goes Off on His Label

Lupe on Lasers: "I hate this album."
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Lupe Fiasco, Atlantic Records, Lasers, hip-hop, Chicago, the biz, video, The Show Goes On, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2010
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Happy Fiasco Friday

Protests, Lyor Cohen with a boombox, and punk videos
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Lupe Fiasco, Chicago, hip-hop, the biz, Atlantic Records, Lyor Cohen, Japanese Cartoon, video, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 10, 2009
The Jackson Find

This was supposed to be the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967. But while writing it, Jake Austen picked up the trail of a tape nobody knew existed: the earliest known studio recording of Michael Jackson and his brothers.
- By Jake Austen
- Tags: Music Feature, Michael Jackson, Jackson Five, Moonwalk, One-derful Records, George Leaner, Ernie Leaner, Eric Leaner, Tony Leaner, Billy Leaner, Phyllis Newkirk, Larry Blasingaine, Hakeem, Four Dukes, Joseph Jackson, Katherine Jackson, Joe Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Johnny Jackson, Jake Austen, Bob Abrahamian, WHPK, Sitting in the Park, Rob Sevier, Numero Group, Ken Shipley, Larry Nestor, Wilton Crump, Delroy Bridgeman, Senators, Vee-Jay, Abner, James Porter, Robert Pruter, Chicago, soul, R & B, Big Boy, Eddie Silvers, Soul Merchants, Sharpees, I'm a Big Boy Now, You've Changed, We Dont Have to Be Over 21, Some Girls Want Me for Their Lover, first recording, earliest recording, Gary, Indiana, Steeltown Records, Steeltown, Gordon Keith, Motown, Berry Gordy, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, Ben Brown, Jerry Reese, Sherman Nesbary, Ludie Washington, Lou D. Washington, Maurice Rogers, Willie Spencer, Shirley Cartman, Pervis Spann, WVON, E. Rodney Jones, Bud Pressner, Sunny Sawyer, Apex, Vaughn Morrison, Morrison Sound Studio, Atlantic Records, Atco, Luther Terry, Richard Arons, Dynamo Records, Magical Connection, Next Movement, Ripples & Waves, Phillip Mack, Troy Shondell, Ed Cody, Jerry Mundo, Richard Brown, Freddie Young, Ray Grimes, Lamont King, Solomon Ard, George Rias, Swamp Dogg, Jerry Williams, The Jackson Five & Johnny: Beginning Years, Brunswick Records, Pre-History, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Elvy Woodard, Otis Hayes, Teens With Talent, Alvin Cash, Twine Time, Five Du-Tones, Tone Recordings, United Distribution, Billy McGregor, Louis Jefferson, J.J. the DJ, WMPP, Jimmy Jones, Amos Cobb, Rod Shard, Young Folk

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R&B wizard Pink Sweat$ will take over the galaxy with his Pink Planet

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Did John Prine die for Donald Trump’s sins?

The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response have cost the life of a beloved singer-songwriter who stood against all those things.

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Bettye LaVette can make any song sound like it was written for her

She debuted with a hit soul single in 1962, but she’s long since transcended genre, singing blues, country, pop, funk, rock, and more.

No less a bluesman than Muddy Waters called Forest City Joe a ‘great harp player’

Blues harpist Forest City Joe might be a legend today if he’d recorded more—or lived long enough to enjoy the 1960s blues revival.

Power-pop heroes Off Broadway narrowly missed stardom

Off Broadway reunited most recently to celebrate their 35th anniversary in 2012, so don't count them out yet.

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Five honors students from Chicago rap's freshman class

Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, and ZMoney all have new mixtapes that should light the fuses on their careers.

The Secret History of Chicago Music: LaVern Baker

This powerful R&B singer helped shape rock 'n' roll with her raucous 1956 smash "Jim Dandy."

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12 O'Clock Track: "Sunflower," a scorching forgotten gem from Eleventh Dream Day

A ripping preview of New Moodio, a previously unissued collection of Eleventh Dream Days later rerecorded for El Moodio

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Lupe Fiasco Goes Off on His Label

Lupe on Lasers: "I hate this album."

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Happy Fiasco Friday

Protests, Lyor Cohen with a boombox, and punk videos

The Jackson Find

This was supposed to be the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967. But while writing it, Jake Austen picked up the trail of a tape nobody knew existed: the earliest known studio recording of Michael Jackson and his brothers.

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The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response have cost the life of a beloved singer-songwriter who stood against all those things.

She debuted with a hit soul single in 1962, but she’s long since transcended genre, singing blues, country, pop, funk, rock, and more.

Blues harpist Forest City Joe might be a legend today if he’d recorded more—or lived long enough to enjoy the 1960s blues revival.

Off Broadway reunited most recently to celebrate their 35th anniversary in 2012, so don't count them out yet.

Alex Wiley, Saba, Spenzo, Taylor Bennett, and ZMoney all have new mixtapes that should light the fuses on their careers.

This powerful R&B singer helped shape rock 'n' roll with her raucous 1956 smash "Jim Dandy."

A ripping preview of New Moodio, a previously unissued collection of Eleventh Dream Days later rerecorded for El Moodio

Lupe on Lasers: "I hate this album."

Protests, Lyor Cohen with a boombox, and punk videos

This was supposed to be the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967. But while writing it, Jake Austen picked up the trail of a tape nobody knew existed: the earliest known studio recording of Michael Jackson and his brothers.

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