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Music, Music Review Feb 5, 2021
Recommended
Brazilian thrashers Nervosa reemerge with a powerful multinational lineup
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music Review, Nervosa, Napalm Records, Perpetual Chaos, Brazil, thrash metal, Fernanda Lira, Luana Dametto, Prika Amaral, Downfall of Mankind, Diva Satanica, Spain, Eleni Nota, Greece, Mia Wallace, Italy, Martin Furia, Artesonao Casa de Grabación, Flotsam & Jetsam, Destruction, Entombed A.D., Recommended

Music, Music Review Dec 25, 2020
Recommended
DJ Earl demonstrates footwork’s deep roots on Bass + Funk & Soul
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, DJ Earl, footwork, Teklife, Open Your Eyes, 50 Backwoods, Nick Hook, Paintings on the Porch, MC Sheefy McFly, Black Dobson, Akem Eshu, Bass + Funk & Soul, Moveltraxx, Brazil, Recommended

Music, Music Review Sep 4, 2020
Recommended
Deafkids and Petbrick join forces to make subversively twisted psych on Deafbrick
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Review, Petbrick, Deafbrick, Deafkids, Brazil, Rocket Recordings, Iggor Cavalera, Wayne Adams, Neurot Recordings, São Paulo, psych-punk, London, England, UK, Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy, Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands, Mariano de Melo, Sarine, Recommended

Music, The Listener Aug 10, 2020
São Paulo big band Bixiga 70 cook up a life-giving brew

The Afro-Brazilian grooves on Quebra Cabeça could get your feet moving on a mortuary slab.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: The Listener, Bixiga 70, Afrobeat, Antibalas, São Paulo, Brazil, Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian, Quebra Cabeça, Cuca Ferreira, Fela Kuti, Gilberto Gil, Sessões Selo Sesc #5, Gustavo Lenza

Music, Music Review Jul 14, 2020
Recommended
Brazilian singer-songwriter Thiago Nassif pulls off a bizarre tropicalia triumph on Mente
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Music Review, Thiago Nassif, Mente, Gearbox Records, Brazil, Talking Heads, Tom Zé, Negro Leo, Rio, Ana Frango Elétrico, squonk, Arto Lindsay, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Jan 24, 2020
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Sessa creates seductive, minimalist tropicália
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Concert Preview, Sessa, São Paulo, Brazil, Grandeza, Boiled, Os Afro Sambas, Baden Powell, Vinicius de Moraes, Portuguese, Afro-Brazilian, tropicália, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
$Rob Mazurek refracts melody and groove through cosmic complexity$
Rob Mazurek refracts melody and groove through cosmic complexity

The trumpeter and polymath returns to his old hometown with the adventurous quartet Desert Encrypts Vol. 1.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, Rob Mazurek, Chicago Underground, Chicago Underground Duo, Chicago Underground Trio, Chicago Underground Quartet, Chicago Underground Orchestra, Exploding Star Orchestra, Desert Encrypts, Desert Encrypts Vol. 1, Chad Taylor, Kris Davis, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Marfa, Brazil, The City Was Yellow, Flamingos Dancing on Luminescent Moonbeams, Playground, Astral Spirits, Love Waves Ecstatic Charge, Lee Anne Schmitt, The Farnsworth Scores, Psychotropic Electric Eel Dreams IV

Music, Concert Preview Aug 8, 2019
Recommended
Brazil’s Deafkids celebrate unity and freedom through ear-ripping, percussive punk fusions
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Concert Preview, Deafkids, Metaprogramação, Neurosis, Bell Witch, Brazil, Killing Joke, São Paulo, Neurot, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 21, 2018
The DJs of Windy City Soul Club celebrate ten years of getting asses moving

Plus: Sunny Woodz throws a release party with a bonkers bill in West Chicago, and Comfort Station gets a welcome windfall from the MacArthur Foundation.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Windy City Soul Club, tenth anniversary, Empty Bottle, Jason Berry, Aret Sakalian, Nick Soule, WCSC, Sunny Woodz, Sunny Side Up, Saba, Ty Money, Qari, Supa Bwe, Warhol.SS, Chimeka, Dinner With John, Twista, Sunny Woodz Roll Up!, Cairo Ale House, Boy Illinois, Stunt Taylor, UG Vavy, White Gzus, Big Body Fiji, Asa 2 Times, Comfort Station, grant, MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Film, Movie Review Aug 16, 2018
Araby follows the life and jobs of an itinerant Brazilian laborer

João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s film conjures up the vision of a working-class literary culture improbably thriving in the rootlessness of the 21st century.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Araby, João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa, Brazil, Brazilian film, Minas Gerais, Aristides de Sousa, workers, working class, intinerant laborer, factory work, James Joyce, Dubliners, picaresque, Great Depression

Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 21, 2017
Slideshow
At the Art Institute, Hélio Oiticica is too organized

“To Organize Delirium” would benefit from more of the “creleisure” the Brazilian artist imagined.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Art Review, Hélio Oiticica, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Art Institute of Chicago, To Organize Delirium, suprasensorial, samba, creleisure, Tropicália, Slideshow

Music, Music Feature Mar 21, 2017
On Fillmore parlay a Brazilian epiphany into another rebirth

With the new Happiness of Living, drummer Glenn Kotche and bassist Darin Gray have made the loosest, most accessible record of their 18-year collaboration.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, On Fillmore, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche, Happiness of Living, Dead Oceans, Extended Vacation, Northern Spy, Jim O’Rourke, Eureka, Wilco, Tweedy, William Tyler, John Luther Adams, Third Coast Percussion, So Percussion, Chikamorachi, Chris Corsano, Akira Sakata, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brazil, Percpan, +2, +2s, Moreno Veloso, Domenico Lancellotti, Alexandre Kassin, Pedro Sá, Stephane San Juan, Orquestra Imperial, Guilherme Valerio, Jornada Inteira, Chiara Banfi, Gabriela Riley, Mauro Refosco, Pat Burns, Big Ears Festival, Solid Sound Festival, National Sawdust

Music, Music Feature Sep 8, 2016
Video
The best of the 2016 World Music Festival

The brightest gems in this year’s treasure trove include Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, electro-rumba innovators Ìfé, and forward-looking Indian classicists Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan—and every show is free.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, World Music Festival, guide, highlights, Ife, Ìfé, Mulatu Astatke, SK Kakraba, Kithara, Dona Onete, Feitiço Caboclo, Feitico Caboclo, Banzeiro, Brazil, Ethiopia, Africa, Puerto Rico, Ghana, Zanzibar, Yonye, Songs of Paapieye, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Lobi, gyil, Culture Musical Club, Rajab Suleiman, taarab, kanun, Ethiopiques, Mark Underwood, Otura Mun, Anjna Swaminathan, Rajna Swaminathan, mridangam, India, Ragamala, Rajas, Sudan, Alsarah & the Nubatones, Manara, Nubian, Sketches of Ethiopia, Ethiopiques, Step Ahead Band, Heliocentrics, Analog Africa Soundsystem, Analog Africa, Samy Ben Redjeb, Tunisia, Habib Galbi, A-Wa, Isreal, Arabic, Yemenite, Tair Haim, Liron Haim, Tagel Haim, Tomer Yosef, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 3, 2016
These gold-medal dissenters stood up to Daley’s Olympic boondoggle dreams

Whereas most of the city’s political and civic elite were ready to lead us off the financial cliff.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, News, Richard M. Daley, 2016 Summer Olympics, IOC, International Olympic Committee, Brazil, Rio, No Games Chicago, Bob Quellos, Tom Tresser, Fraternal Order of Police, Pat Hill, Black People Against Torture, Chicago 2016 Committee, Reader, Ben Eason, Francesca Rodriguez

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2015
Video
Ripping Brazilian death metal from Nervochaos at Reggie's

Veteran Sao Paulo death-metal band Nervochaos embark on a rare stateside tour to support The Art of Vengeance.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Do This, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Nervochaos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, death metal, Reggie's Music Joint, The Art of Vengeance, Eduardo Lane, Felipe Freitas, Lauro Bonometti, Nightrealm, Edu, Cherry, Joachim Kremer, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 29, 2015
Video
Listen to a manguebeat classic by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi

One of the greatest musical moments in the history of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, "Rios, Pontes & Overdrives"
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Brazil, 12 O'Clock Track, Chico Science, Nação Zumbi, mangue beat, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2015
Terry Gilliam's five best films

Highlights from the filmography of Terry Gilliam
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Terry Gilliam, Monty Python, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brothers Grimm, Jabberywocky, Time Bandits, Brazil, the Fisher King

City Life, Space Nov 23, 2014
Slideshow Video
A Humboldt Park pad incorporates Latin American influences

Tour the Humboldt Park home of Nerd Press owner Kelly Parsell and photographer Luan Barros.
- By Andrea Bauer
- Tags: Space, You Are Here, Space, Arts, Space, Arts, You Are Here, Kelly Parsell, Luan Barros, Humboldt Park, Brazil, Nerd Press, Slideshow, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2014
The Blue Angel, Brazil, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Serenity, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Heathers, Rock 'n' Roll High School, The Blue Angel, Brazil, Casque d'or

Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2014
Detail—do you remember when newspapers thought it was important?

Coverage of Rick Perry and Brazil raise the question: Is no news better than news told badly?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Brazil, Eduardo Campos, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, National Public Radio, WBEZ, Governor Rick Perry, Texas, Travis County, Tom DeLay

Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2014
OK, Brazil's a shattered nation. What about Germany?

How did Germany react to its World Cup victory over Brazil?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Sports, News, World Cup, Brazil-Germany game, New York Times, Third Reich, Germany, Brazil, soccer, Hitler

Music, Music Sidebar Jul 7, 2014
How four record collectors scored their favorite rare 78s

Amanda Petrusich interviewed these obsessives for Do Not Sell at Any Price, and here they talk about their best finds: a Brazilian choro masterpiece, the Okeh Crying Record, a pseudonymous 1927 Sam Collins disc, and prewar music from Epirus.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Amanda Petrusich, Jonathan Ward, excavatedshellac.com, Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM, Luperce Miranda, Segura o Dedo, Brazil, Ian Nagoski, Canary Records, To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929, Okeh Laughing Record, Okeh Crying Record, Nathan Salsburg, Alan Lomax Archive, Work Hard Play Hard Pray Hard, Whitesburg Kentucky, Sam Collins, Midnight Special, Dark Cloudy Blues, Jim Foster, Riley Puckett, Uncle Dave Macon, Christopher King, Charley Patton: Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues, The Bristol Sessions, 78 RPM records, Kitsos Harisiadis Mirologi Arvantico, Epirus Greece, Alexis Zoumbas

Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2014
Video
12 O'Clock Track: Watching the World Cup with Gilberto Gil's 'Back in Bahia'

The second track off of the 1972 album Expresso 2222
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Gilberto Gil, Expresso 2222, Back in Bahia, Brazil, World Cup, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2013
An image of Brazilian moviegoing in the 1970s

A thumbnail sketch of moviegoing in another place and time
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Broken, Foreign, Moviegoing, Film, History, Moviegoing, Brazil, Mostra, Brazilian cinema, grindhouse theaters, Serbis

Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 10/18: ?uestlove, Queer Chicago, and Reservoir Dogs

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, October 18
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Queer Chicago, Poland, Suka Off, Brazil, Croatia, U.S., Keijaun R. Thomas, Defibrillator, The Roots, ?uestlove, Ephelon Trio, J-Dilla, Donuts, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Bare Knuckle Productions

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