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Music, Music Feature Mar 15, 2019
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How did the 'industry plant' take root?

Hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory is now used to discredit breakout successes in other genres—and it’s no more plausible there.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, industry plant, rap, hip-hop, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, DJ Akademiks, Alex Jones, Complex, Everyday Struggle, Russ, Exposed, XXL, Columbia, There’s Really a Wolf, Clairo, Pretty Girl, Fake Shore Drive, Andrew Barber, Blueface, the Coli, IGN, Trinidad James, Def Jam, Chance the Rapper, Raury, Freshman Class, Shins, New Slang, McDonald’s, Avery Springer, Retirement Party, Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Lorde, Dua Lipa, Halsey, In Sight Out, Ric Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Trippie Red, Baby Goth, Bria Bueno, Republic, A Love Letter to You 3, No Jumper, Video

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.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982), Parlophone, Bob Dylan, Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13/1979-1981, Columbia, Legacy, Fairport Convention, Come All Ye: The First Ten Years, UME, Hüsker Dü, Savage Young Dü, Numero Group, Roland Kayn, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound, Frozen Reeds, Stack Waddy, So Who the Hell Is Stack Waddy? The Complete Works 1970-1972, Cherry Red, American Epic: The Collection, Legacy, At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight . . ., Bear Family, Atlantic Rock & Roll Series, Stateside, Atlantic, Teddy Wilson, Classic Brunswick and Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions 1934-1942, Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Loren Schoenberg, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, Ben Webster, Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, Ivory Joe Hunter, Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, KWKH, Grand Ole Opry, National Barn Dance, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Horace Logan, George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Rose Maddox, Webb Pierce, June Carter, Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson, Elijah Wald, Nick Bergh, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Dock Boggs, Jimmie Rodgers, Harry Smith, Anthology of American Folk Music, Roots n’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950, Steve Albini, Byron Coley, Dr. Feelgood, Count Bishops, John Knail, John Peel, Dandelion, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, cybernetics, jazz, roots, Terry Katzman, Grant Hart, Bob Mould, Land Speed Record, Zen Arcade, Metal Circus, Everything Falls Apart, Erin Osmon, Andrew Batt, Richard Thompson, Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot of Love, The Basement Tapes, Amanda Petrusich, Ben Rollins, Trouble No More: A Musical Film, Spooner Oldham, Fred Tackett, Jim Keltner, Clydie King, Regina McCrary, Brian Eno, Berlin period, Low, “Heroes”, Lodger, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Oblique Strategies, Peter Schmidt, Tony Visconti, Stage, In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal, Sound and Vision, Fashion, Ashes to Ashes, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2015
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Atlanta musician Raury brings his molten hip-hop sound to 1st Ward

Raury speaks the language of hip-hop, though his music surpasses the genre's confines.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Raury, All We Need, Columbia, hip-hop, Indigo Child, Atlanta, Donnie Trumpet, Social Experiment, Jugrnaut, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2015
A 'Jesus fish' on a war memorial causes controversy in Missouri

Who benefits and who suffers in a constitutional dispute over a monument honoring two Columbia, Missouri, natives who perished in the Persian Gulf War?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: History, Media, News, Cui bono, cui patitur, Will Connor, Marsha Connor, Patrick Connor, Boone County, Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, war memorials, Operation Desert Storm, Peter Scavone, Church-state separation, Steven Paul Farnen, ichthys, Henry Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Boone County Commission, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Alliance Defending Freedom for Faith and Justice, B. Daniel Simon, Little Dixie

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music May 16, 2015
South-side favorites the Hounds flamed out before they could reach arena-rock stardom

The Hounds toured with REO Speedwagon and Foghat, but despite a huge local following, they never followed those bands into rock-radio immortality.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Hounds, John Hunter, John Horvath, Jim Orkis, Joe Cuttone, Glen Rupp, Columbia, Unleashed, Drugland Weekend, Puttin' on the Dog, Dolton, Hammon, Calumet City, The Secret History of Chicago Music

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Mar 5, 2015
Bluesman Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston played with the legendary Willie Dixon for years

Leonard Caston helped convince Willie Dixon to pursue the blues instead of boxing, but ended up overshadowed by his friend and fading from public view.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, blues, delta blues, Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston, Leonard Caston, piano, guitar, Sumrall, Mississippi, Natchez, Mississippi, Willie Dixon, Five Breezes, Robert Nighthawk, Rhythm Rascals Trio, Roosevelt Sykes, Walter Davis, Four Jumps of Jive, Big Three, Columbia, Okeh, Leonard Caston, Jr., The Radiants

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, Record Roundup Aug 19, 2013
Earl Sweatshirt's humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews

Seven Reader writers want you to hear Sich Mang's seizure-inducing psychedelic EDM and No Age's experimental two-chord punk—and that's just for starters.
- By Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Luca Cimarusti, Bill Meyer, and Philip Montoro
- Tags: Record Roundup, records, Dewey Balfa, The Bug, Ace, Ninja Tune, Kevin Martin, EDM, EPs, anthologies, Danny Brown, dubstep, dancehall, Flowdan, The Dead C, Ba Da Bing!, Destruction Unit, Sacred Bones, R. Rousseau, Earl Sweatshirt, Columbia, Tan Cressida, Nathan Abshire, Odd Future, rap, mixtapes, Complex, The New Yorker, RZA, Frank Ocean, The Neptunes, M. Geddes Gengras, Thrill Jockey, experimental music, Moog, improvisations, Albert Heath, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Sunnyside, Bad Plus, Smalls, accordian, swing, free jazz, jazz, bossa nova, Kandodo, Simon Price, The Heads, The Mallard, Castle Face, No Age, Sub Pop, noise punk, garage rock, postpunk, Sich Mang, Rainbow Body, Eric Lee Gale, Rand Sevilla, wurkstep, Dobrinka Tabakova, ECM, Cajun music, cello, strings, concertos, Vattnet Viskar, black metal, Venom P. Stinger, Drag City, Century Media, Mick Turner, Jim White, Alan Secher-Jensen, Dugald MacKenzie, Chelsea Wolfe, Sargent House, folk music, Pine Grove Boys, Balfa Brothers, BLuebird Records, Rayne-Bo Ramblers, Will Balfa

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2010
Disorder

Huang Weikai's surreal nonfiction film "Disorder" about Guangzhou, China, screens for free Wednesday 3/3 at DePaul University Museum.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, DePaul, DePaul University Museum, Guangzhou, China, Haung Weikai, documentary, David Lynch, True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, Chris Boeckmann, media arts, Chi Jang Yin

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2010
Reinvent Journalism and Drink Beer Along Hinkson Creek

Reynolds Journalism Institute is looking for four fellows for the next school year
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri Journalism School, Pam Johnson, Columbia, Missouri

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How did the 'industry plant' take root?

Hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory is now used to discredit breakout successes in other genres—and it’s no more plausible there.

Video
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.

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Atlanta musician Raury brings his molten hip-hop sound to 1st Ward

Raury speaks the language of hip-hop, though his music surpasses the genre's confines.

A 'Jesus fish' on a war memorial causes controversy in Missouri

Who benefits and who suffers in a constitutional dispute over a monument honoring two Columbia, Missouri, natives who perished in the Persian Gulf War?

South-side favorites the Hounds flamed out before they could reach arena-rock stardom

The Hounds toured with REO Speedwagon and Foghat, but despite a huge local following, they never followed those bands into rock-radio immortality.

Bluesman Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston played with the legendary Willie Dixon for years

Leonard Caston helped convince Willie Dixon to pursue the blues instead of boxing, but ended up overshadowed by his friend and fading from public view.

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

Earl Sweatshirt's humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews

Seven Reader writers want you to hear Sich Mang's seizure-inducing psychedelic EDM and No Age's experimental two-chord punk—and that's just for starters.

Disorder

Huang Weikai's surreal nonfiction film "Disorder" about Guangzhou, China, screens for free Wednesday 3/3 at DePaul University Museum.

Reinvent Journalism and Drink Beer Along Hinkson Creek

Reynolds Journalism Institute is looking for four fellows for the next school year

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Hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory is now used to discredit breakout successes in other genres—and it’s no more plausible there.

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.

Raury speaks the language of hip-hop, though his music surpasses the genre's confines.

Who benefits and who suffers in a constitutional dispute over a monument honoring two Columbia, Missouri, natives who perished in the Persian Gulf War?

The Hounds toured with REO Speedwagon and Foghat, but despite a huge local following, they never followed those bands into rock-radio immortality.

Leonard Caston helped convince Willie Dixon to pursue the blues instead of boxing, but ended up overshadowed by his friend and fading from public view.

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

Seven Reader writers want you to hear Sich Mang's seizure-inducing psychedelic EDM and No Age's experimental two-chord punk—and that's just for starters.

Huang Weikai's surreal nonfiction film "Disorder" about Guangzhou, China, screens for free Wednesday 3/3 at DePaul University Museum.

Reynolds Journalism Institute is looking for four fellows for the next school year

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