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- Music, In Rotation Jul 23, 2019
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Mako Sica bassist Brent Fuscaldo on a voice that literally saved a man’s life
Plus: Guitarist Mark Shippy on the strange song of an Australian electric bus, Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig on a tribute to creative LP defacement, and more
- Film, Movie Review Feb 6, 2018
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24 Frames, the final feature from Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, may send you into a trance
Digitally altered scenes of animals, weather, and natural landscapes reveal the hidden complexity behind simple images.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2018
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Sons of the Silent Age honored David Bowie’s life and death by playing his Berlin trilogy
Saturday at Metro, actor Michael Shannon joined Sons of the Silent Age for yet another demonstration of the lasting impact of Bowie's work.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 29, 2017
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Gifts that sing—are you listening?
The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.
- Music, In Rotation Nov 2, 2016
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Steve Reidell of the Hood Internet on an overlooked R&B wizard
Plus: Metro publicist Shannon Shreibak on fierce Soviet folk-punk, Reader writer Leor Galil on DJ/Rupture’s mind-expanding musical travelogue, and more
- Music, Record Roundup May 3, 2016
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Anohni’s heartfelt but clumsy Hopelessness and 13 more record reviews
Nine Reader writers tackle new releases from ambient wizard Brian Eno, self-proclaimed “Hood Pope” A$AP Ferg, and wintry folksinger Marissa Nadler, to name a few.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2015
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RIP Dieter Moebius, electronic-music composer and minor house-music influence
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "The Belldog," off of Eno Moebius Roedelius's album After the Heat.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 7, 2015
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Haki get as punk as they ever will on a new EP
Plus: Two bands on the Maximum Pelt roster celebrate fresh releases, and the Deep Kutz series signs off with one last outlandish covers show.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2014
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Listen to one of Robert Fripp's greatest guitar solos (and one of the greatest guitar solos, period)
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "I'll Come Running," off of Brian Eno's 1975 album Another Green World.
- Music, Record Roundup Apr 21, 2014
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The Pixies' deflating Indie Cindy and 15 more record reviews
A dozen far-flung Reader writers cover Future's conscience-stricken coke rap, Todd Terje's playfully colorful nu-disco, Triptykon's lightless armor-plated epics, and points further afield.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 16, 2014
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How do record stores get such great used vinyl?
When record stores aren't buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show.
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 19, 2013
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Best Spot for Hyper-Curated DJ Nights
Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Spend the weekend with side A of Eno's Discreet Music
A half hour of poignant inertia
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Rjyan Kidwell's ambient electro-black-metal opus "Necromonks"
Black metal meets Steve Reich to beautifully unsettling ends
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: an ambient Kraut collabo from Harmonia & Eno '76 on "Welcome"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Welcome," from the Harmonia & Eno '76 album Tracks and Traces.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 27, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: A changing of the guard at the Hideout
Plus: A new indie "supergroup" and a solo album from half of String Theory
- Music, Music Feature Mar 14, 2013
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Reader readers built their very own jukebox
We asked what would be in the perfect jukebox, and you queued up the tracks.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas make Roxy Music's "Avalon" sound menacing
The Swedish techno producers remix the charming and cheesy 1982 title song off of Roxy Music's Avalon.
- Music, In Rotation Nov 26, 2012
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In Rotation: Andrew Barber of Fake Shore Drive on Ma$e, Too $hort, and E-40
Plus: Miles Raymer on Scott Walker, MC Tree on Lucille Bogan, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Ty Segall & Dillon Watson, "Needles in the Camel's Eye"
Ty Segall and Dillon Watson take on an Eno classic
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Cluster, "Sowiesoso"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the title cut from the 1976 Cluster album Sowiesoso.
- News & Politics, Feature Mar 28, 2012
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The puzzler and the puzzled
In which our writer searches through, down, and across the history of crosswords for clues on constructing his own
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2011
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How to . . . excel at crosswords
Common crossword answers.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2010
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An Hour of the Funky Brian Eno
DJ Food leads an expedition into some sketchy areas of Eno's discography.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2009
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Mixtape For a Low Dishonest Decade
21 songs for a terrible decade.
