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Music, Music Feature Apr 19, 2017
Record stores for Record Store Day heretics

It’s always a good time to skip the lines and get acquainted with the great neighborhood shops that don’t partake in the annual retail circus.
- By Leor Galil and Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Feature, Record Store Day, Reckless Records, Permanent Records, Record Dugout, Fletcher’s 1 Stop, Kstarke Records, Let’s Boogie Records & Tapes, Out of the Past Records, Bob’s Blues & Jazz Mart, Jazz Record Mart, Bob Koester, Neal S. Keller, Kenny Lott, Steve Batinich, Marie Henderson, Kevin Starke, south side, west side, soul, jazz, funk, blues, gospel, R&B, CDs, tapes, comics, cassettes, DVDs, classic rock, eight-tracks, 45s, 78s, vinyl, Out of the Past, Fletcher's 1 Stop Records

Music, Music Feature Jul 23, 2014
Will Chicago's most daring and virtuosic jazz singer finally get the recognition she deserves?

Dee Alexander has earned international acclaim, but fame has eluded her. Her great new album, Songs My Mother Loves, might change that.
- By David Whiteis
- Tags: Music Feature, Dee Alexander, jazz, jazz singers, albums, Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 2013 Newport Jazz Festival, Bluejazz, DownBeat, CDs, Chicago Tribune, Ella Fitzgerald, 2012 Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Ken Chaney Xperience, Baba Eli Hoenai, Henry Huff, UIC, University of Illinoi, University of Illinois at Chicago, Kennedy Center, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Howard Mandel, Jazz Journalists Association, Corey Wilkes, Ernest Dawkins, Miguel de la Cerna, Kickstarter, crowdfunding, 3Arts Foundation, 3AP, stipends, Greg Pasenko, Oliver Lake, recording, Columbia College, Rita Warford, Iqua Colson, AACM, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Obie Creed, Progressive Arts Center, Prada Ensemble, Breath, Douglas Ewart, Mankwe Ndosi, R. Kelly, Delmark, Malachi Thompson, HotHouse, Hyde Park Art Center, Yussef Ernie Adams, Harrison Bankhead, bands, Tomeka Reid, Scott Hesse, Junius Pau, Evolution Arkestra, Ari Brown, Corey Wilkes, World Saxophone Quartet, Oliver Lake, Lillstreet Art Center, jazz songs, jazz standards, University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts, College of DuPage, McAninch Arts Center, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art

Music, In Rotation May 19, 2014
In Rotation: Dave Mata of Impala Sound Champions on two decades of Danny Akalepse beats

Plus: Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum on SPF666 and his Club Chemtrails party, the Reader's Tal Rosenberg on the Feelies upstaging R.E.M., and more
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: In Rotation, CDs, Reckless Records, Tal Rosenberg, Chicago Reader, mp3s, records, Allen Toussaint, R.E.M., covers, YouTube, videos, The Feelies, Dave Mata, DJs, Impala Sound Champions, Soul Summit Chicago, Danny Akalepse, Truth & Soul, Soul Summit, mixtapes, Rich Medina, 45s, seven-inches, Tucker & Bloom, House Shoes, Street Corner Music, producers, Raj Mahal, Jeremiah Meece, The-Drum, Jody, Jeremiah Chrome, VALIS, SPF666, Zak DesFleurs, Dave Barnes, Massacooramaan, Club Chemtrails, Facebook, EPs, Brett Naucke, Ableton, Abletonlive, software

Music, Music Feature Mar 31, 2014
David Grubbs on the meaning of records

In a new book the former Gastr del Sol front man discusses why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, David Grubbs, Bastro, Gastr del Sol, Jim O'Rourke, books, dissertations, University of Chicago, Brooklyn College, Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, Duke University Press, experimental music, 1960s, records, recordings, documentation, composers, free improvisers, John Cage, Derek Bailey, AMM, La Monte Young, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Fluxus, Earl Browne, David Behrman, Time Records, Columbia Records, CDs, Morton Feldman, mp3 blogs, DRAM, Database o Recorded American Music, Kenneth Goldsmith, Corbett vs. Dempsey, readings, interviews, John Corbett, John McEntire, essays, Tony Conrad, college students, Henry Flynt, Ubuweb, Keith Rowe, Bob Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Charles Curtis, John Cale, Joseph Byrd, The United States of America

Music, Record Roundup Jan 13, 2014
Lil B's 101-track mixtape 05 Fuck Em and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers recommend Don Cherry's joyful collectivist jazz, Against Me!'s transformative arena punk, and Murmur's inscrutable blackened prog, just for starters.
- By Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Miles Raymer, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick, David Whiteis, Kim Kelly, and Philip Montoro
- Tags: Record Roundup, Abyssal, Iron Bonehead, CDs, records, albums, Against Me!, Total Treble, Tom Gabel, Laura Jane Grace, gender, Don Cherry, Caprice, Peter Gutteridge, The Clean, The Chills, Snapper, The Great Unwashed, Haptic, Entr'acte, 540, Lil B, mixtapes, Mariam the Believer, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Andreas Werliin, Mochi Mochi, Mogwai, Sub Pop, Murmur, Season of Mist, black metal, Matthias Vogels, Alex Perkolup, Charlie Werber, Shane Prendiville, Hatology, Polwechsel, Michael Moser, Werner Dafeldecker, Tempel, Prosthetic, Twista, GMG Entertainment, compilations, UDAD, Coral Records Internazionale, Papadon Washington, UDAD, Leo Welch, Big Legal Mess, You Blew It!, Topshelf, Miles Raymer, seapunk, Evan Thomas Weiss

Music, Music Feature Nov 26, 2013
Holiday gifts for music fiends

Ten of the year's best box sets—including 17 discs of Harry Nilsson, six decades of southeast Asian 78s, and every bit of Woody Guthrie's Library of Congress sessions
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, William Basinski, Temporary Residence, box sets, records, cds, compilations, Le Grand Kallé, Sterns, Woody Guthrie, Rounder, Herbie Hancock, Columbia, Sony, Legacy, RCA, Harry Nilsson, William Parker, Aum Fidelity, Tompkins Square, Dust-to-Digital, Numero Group, Verve, Universal Music Enterprises, singles

Music, Music Feature Jun 26, 2013
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The long game of soul singer Doug Shorts

He's been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now, after decades of trying, he might finally make it in the music business.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Doug Shorts, Wells High School, Chatham, Chess Records, Shades of Brown, soul, vocal soul, funk, Cermakk, Cherries Records, R&B, 45s, seven-inches, Andrew Brearley, records, Herb Butler, WHPK, Master Plan Inc., Bob Abrahamian, record collectors, The Players, Meaty Ogre, doormen, Galapagos4, Brian "Robust" Kuptzin, Sheila Hernando, DJ Shred One, Jazzman, compilations, Numero Group, Frank Dukes, Dap-Kings, Homer Steinweiss, Frederick Douglass Shorts, The Mannequins, The Visitors, Joe Stevenson, Dean Knox, James Clark Revue, Eddie Manning, The Fugitives, Archie Brooks, song-writing, David Rivkin, David Z., record producers, Ed Cody, Brunswick, Gary Jackson, Raymond Haley, Mundo, vanity labels, Wabash YMCA, Motown, Roosevelt Purifoy, Buccellati, mvoies, cassettes, gospel music, CDs, albums, home studios, Funkland, Record Dugout, Steve Batinich, Joe Lopez, Numero Group, Rob Sevier, tapes, acetates, Video

Music, Music Feature Jun 13, 2013
A new box set gives experimental composer David Tudor his due

Despite his pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy, he’s far more obscure than his friend John Cage—in part because he considered his music a living practice rather than something to be documented.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, John Cage, spatialization, sound, liner notes, live music, David Tudor, piano, pianists, composers, New York School, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, graphic notation, indeterminacy, Karlheinz Stockhausen, La Monte Young, Sylvano Bussotti, Stefan Wolpe, interpretation, Black Mountain College, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, chance, performance, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, scores, recordings, documentation, box sets, CDs, electronic music, experimental music, Irma Wolpe, John Adams, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, traditional instruments, Pierre Boulez, Matt Rogalsky, Robert Rauschenberg, computer music, neural networks

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2010
Beatles for Sale

Why your mom might kill the CD.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, the biz, Apple, the Beatles, iTunes, Lala, Ping, CDs

Reader, Matches blog Feb 9, 2010
Get Into The Groove!

Held onto the relationship long enough to gain a lifetime of dancing and singing.
- By Heartbroker
- Tags: Mismatched: Bad Dates, Great Stories, Madonna, herpes, oozing, albums, Napoleon Dynamite, Calvin Klein, iPod, dance, arms, tickets, relationship, crabs, Chlamydia, Dion, Enya, Cds, iTunes, life, long, lifetime, troll, E!, facebook, break, up, break-up, ghosts, past, records, hooks, catch, obsession

Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2009
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Boz Scaggs for Early Adopters

Celebrating the CD's 27th birthday with smooth white funk.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Boz Scaggs, video, compact discs, CDs, technology, Sony, Video

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Record stores for Record Store Day heretics

It’s always a good time to skip the lines and get acquainted with the great neighborhood shops that don’t partake in the annual retail circus.

Will Chicago's most daring and virtuosic jazz singer finally get the recognition she deserves?

Dee Alexander has earned international acclaim, but fame has eluded her. Her great new album, Songs My Mother Loves, might change that.

In Rotation: Dave Mata of Impala Sound Champions on two decades of Danny Akalepse beats

Plus: Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum on SPF666 and his Club Chemtrails party, the Reader's Tal Rosenberg on the Feelies upstaging R.E.M., and more

David Grubbs on the meaning of records

In a new book the former Gastr del Sol front man discusses why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.

Lil B's 101-track mixtape 05 Fuck Em and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers recommend Don Cherry's joyful collectivist jazz, Against Me!'s transformative arena punk, and Murmur's inscrutable blackened prog, just for starters.

Holiday gifts for music fiends

Ten of the year's best box sets—including 17 discs of Harry Nilsson, six decades of southeast Asian 78s, and every bit of Woody Guthrie's Library of Congress sessions

Video
The long game of soul singer Doug Shorts

He's been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now, after decades of trying, he might finally make it in the music business.

A new box set gives experimental composer David Tudor his due

Despite his pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy, he’s far more obscure than his friend John Cage—in part because he considered his music a living practice rather than something to be documented.

Beatles for Sale

Why your mom might kill the CD.

Get Into The Groove!

Held onto the relationship long enough to gain a lifetime of dancing and singing.

Video
Boz Scaggs for Early Adopters

Celebrating the CD's 27th birthday with smooth white funk.

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It’s always a good time to skip the lines and get acquainted with the great neighborhood shops that don’t partake in the annual retail circus.

Dee Alexander has earned international acclaim, but fame has eluded her. Her great new album, Songs My Mother Loves, might change that.

Plus: Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum on SPF666 and his Club Chemtrails party, the Reader's Tal Rosenberg on the Feelies upstaging R.E.M., and more

In a new book the former Gastr del Sol front man discusses why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.

Eight Reader writers recommend Don Cherry's joyful collectivist jazz, Against Me!'s transformative arena punk, and Murmur's inscrutable blackened prog, just for starters.

Ten of the year's best box sets—including 17 discs of Harry Nilsson, six decades of southeast Asian 78s, and every bit of Woody Guthrie's Library of Congress sessions

He's been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now, after decades of trying, he might finally make it in the music business.

Despite his pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy, he’s far more obscure than his friend John Cage—in part because he considered his music a living practice rather than something to be documented.

Why your mom might kill the CD.

Held onto the relationship long enough to gain a lifetime of dancing and singing.

Celebrating the CD's 27th birthday with smooth white funk.

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