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- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 12, 2021
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Catalytic Sound launches a streaming service to support improvising musicians
Plus: Rapper-producer Rashid Hadee collaborates with the Primeridian, and the zine Jugo & Rada drops the second EP in its Square Series.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 25, 2020
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A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern
For decades, this cozy candlelit bar in Bucktown nurtured a devoted and welcoming community of music lovers—but it couldn’t survive the pandemic.
- Music, Music Review Nov 25, 2020
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Rob Mazurek’s latest with his Exploding Star Orchestra finds hope in the cosmos
- Music, Music Feature Oct 1, 2020
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival takes it to the streets
With short sets from small groups in unexpected spots, the festival creates a communal experience that’s pandemic safe.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 23, 2020
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Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world
The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 22, 2020
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Damon Locks’s greatest moment in Chicago music history
The founder of the Black Monument Ensemble still feels the ripples from Soul Train 50 years after its Chicago premiere.
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Jun 9, 2020
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Olivia Junell, codirector of Experimental Sound Studio
“Right before the shelter-in-place got announced, we started thinking: OK, how can we help?”
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 26, 2020
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Chicago jazz guitarist Tim Stine drops an engagingly off-kilter new trio album
Plus: A 26-track compilation benefits the staff of the shuttered Crown Liquors, and ESS presents yet another can’t-miss program in its Quarantine Concerts series.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 14, 2020
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Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble drop a live video to buoy a locked-down city
Plus: Self-described “bohemian electronics” act Sip releases its first studio album, and masked darkwave duo None of Your Concern tease their debut full-length.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 30, 2020
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The best Chicago albums of the 2010s: the critics’ ballots
Here’s where to see who voted for what and how the points got divvied up.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 30, 2020
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The best Chicago albums of the 2010s
The Reader polled dozens of critics to arrive at an absolutely indisputable ranked list of several hundred records that will definitely not start any arguments.
- Music, Concert Preview May 23, 2019
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Polymath Damon Locks honors a heritage of Black culture and resistance
- Music, Music Feature Jan 31, 2019
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Angel Bat Dawid taps into the root of all black music
The cofounder of Chicago’s Participatory Music Coalition talks about the improvisation and inspiration that shaped her new album, The Oracle.
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Sep 26, 2018
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‘The Long Term’ uses art to connect Stateville prisoners to the outside world
"A lot of people don't think about how long-term sentencing creates a long-term struggle for freedom and a long-term loss in communities."
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
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Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise
She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Aug 17, 2018
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Music, movement, and politics take root at the MCA Dance Fest
Tamar-kali's Demon Fruit Blues and Damon Locks's Where Future Unfolds use the black musical heritage to explore contemporary problems.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 7, 2017
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Eternals front man Damon Locks creates a ‘sound essay’ at the MCA
Plus: Members of Bloodiest, the Reputation, Sybris, and more debut as Masonic Wave, and Deanna Belos plays a belated release party for her Sincere Engineer project.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 9, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: You get one guess what sort of noise Georgia O'Queef makes
Plus: A new video from emo goofs Churchkey, a new LP from psych voyagers Energy Gown, and a new art show from Eternals front man Damon Locks
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Apr 29, 2014
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At the Hull-House Museum, artwork made while doing time
Through the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 19, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: More Pitchfork lineup predictions!
Plus: A new album in installments from Redgrave, an "outdoor" rock-scene art show, and more
- City Life, Space Jan 3, 2014
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A tailor-made interior in Logan Square
Fashion designer Jamie Hayes allows her day job to influence her decorating eye and is always hoping for a good story with each piece of furniture.
- Music, Music Sidebar Sep 26, 2013
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival paints a portrait of the Chicago scene
Thirty-two acts at 11 venues, including Dee Alexander, Anat Cohen, Ken Vandermark, and Gerald Clayton
- Music, In Rotation Aug 9, 2013
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In Rotation: Jeanine O'Toole of Bare Mutants on how to commemorate Jerry Garcia's deathiversary
Plus: Eternals front man Damon Locks on Shirley Bassey, the Reader's Miles Raymer on the Outsidaz, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2012
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A Chicago music documentary without the music
The documentary Parallax Sounds is about the Chicago underground music scene of the 90s, but you'll hardly hear any of the music.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2012
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This week on the B Side
Bye-bye to Megaupload and some LA-bound Chicagoans, hello to new music from Calez and Rockie Fresh, and more
