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Music, Gossip Wolf May 21, 2019
West-side rapper Musa Reems dazzles with a weekly single series

Plus: College radio stations WHPK and WNUR fill the weekend with festivals, and Flesh Panthers turn “flower punk” on a new Dumpster Tapes release.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Malik Muhammad, Musa Reems, Lately I’ve Been Sol Searching 2, Nasim Williams, Occult Powers, Gamma Quietus, Defcee, Godspeed, Musa Mondays, Quarter Juice, Not Know, WNUR, Transference Fest, Elastic, Mukqs, Sharkula, Gun Outfit, Ikue Mori, Bergsonist, Discwoman, WHPK, University of Chicago, Bartlett Quad, Summer Breeze, Summer Breeze 2019: Summa cum Loud!, Negative Scanner, IfIHadAHiFi, Erik Nervous, Wet Wallet, Flesh Panthers, Dumpster Tapes, Holy Roller, Cole’s, Uncle Sexy & the Nephews, Reverse Cowboys

Music, Music Feature May 8, 2019
Demolición makes room in the north-side scene for Latinx rock

Chicago label Dumpster Tapes books this daylong festival because segregation won’t undo itself.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Demolición, Dumpster Tapes, Alex Fryer, Ed McMenamin, Divino Niño, Girl K, Town Criers, Perro Feo, Tenci, Pkng, Auxiliary Art Center, Al Otro Lado, Foam, Latinx, Camilo Medina, Javier Forero, Guillermo Rodriguez, Pierce Codina, Bric-a-Brac Records, Las Piñas, Winspear, Justin Vittori, Paul Cherry, Bruised, Cabrona, Rai, Mia Joy, Elmer Martinez, Flesh Panthers, Gross Pointe, Son of a Gun, Morons, Cut Worms, Cole’s, Empty Bottle, Slippery Slope, Cafe Racer, Michael Santana, Ruido Fest, Alice Bag, Chi-Town Futbol, El Rescate, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Kathy Patino, Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund, Vida Libre, Latino Policy Forum, Andre Baptista

Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2018
Chicago rocker Adam Schubert recorded alone for years before getting sober and going public as Ruins

Schubert and his live band celebrate Fine Prints' release of the second Ruins EP with a show on Wednesday night.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, Do This, Ruins, Adam Schubert, Cafe Racer, garage pop, Fine Prints, Dumpster Tapes, 2

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 11, 2018
Honoring Englewood’s musical history with a cast of hundreds

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Quantum Englewood, Ernest Dawkins, Rahul Sharma, Old Town School of Folk Music, Live the Spirit Residency, Music Moves Chicago, Joyce Foundation, Lindblom Academy, Ben LaMar Gay, Maggie Brown, Funkadesi, AACM, Live the Spirit Jazz Ensemble, Fernando Jones’s Blues Kids, Soul Children Gospel Choir, Bucket Boys, Devin Shaffer, Yarrow, Cluster, Manic Static, Cut Worms, Max Clarke, Hollow Ground, At Home, Jagjaguwar, Dumpster Tapes, Schubas

Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 28, 2018
Electronic musician Angel Marcloid drops a new collage barrage as Fire-Toolz

Plus: Groove Cafe releases a compilation to benefit rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico, the Chicago hip-hop scene remembers Henny B, and more.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Fire-Toolz, Angel Marcloid, Skinless X-1, Hausu Mountain, Hideout, Resonance Series, J. Soliday, Lord Mute, Mukqs, Tiger Village, Groove Cafe, Aftermaths: Chicago Stands With Puerto Rico, ISER Caribe, Ono, Steve Hauschildt, Tiger Hatchery, Blacker Face, Ariel Zetina, Brett Naucke, TALsounds, Jana Rush, Angeline Gil, Henny B, memorial, North Bar, Vic Spencer, Mic Terror, Gzus Piece, Nasim Williams, Freddie Old Soul, Sisi Dior, Henny B Lives, Laverne, II, Dumpster Tapes, Midwest Action, Empty Bottle, Daymaker, Brittany Campbell

Music, In Rotation Jun 27, 2018
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Alexa Viscius of Bunny on a bass-playing hero who makes perfect posters

Plus: Disruptor editor Lucas Reif on last year’s most important hardcore record, Reader writer Leor Galil on an emo rapper whose sad songs feel good, and more
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: In Rotation, Valley of the Sun, Valley of the Sun Publishing, Hidden Valley (of the Sun Publishing), new age, Dick Sutphen, Serveaux, Jayaire Woods, Impatient, emo rap, Thunder Rock, Don’t Go Away, private press, eBay, Lucas Reif, Disruptor, Alexa Viscius, Bunny, Hogg, Self-Extinguishing Emission, Scrapes Recordings, Alex Barnett, Rebecca Walz, Ryan Pfeiffer, Samuel R. Delany, Gun Outfit, Out of Range, Haram, When You Have Won, You Have Lost, Nader Habibi, Your President, Not a President, Eliza Weber, Glyders, Sike Rock, Tim Makowski, Schubas, Sarah Jane Quillin, Ashley Ray, Zach Hebert, Ruins, Adam Schubert, Cafe Racer, Dumpster Tapes, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 23, 2018
The Growing Concerns Poetry Collective celebrate their debut again—this time on vinyl

Plus: The Art Leaders of Color Network and the Comfort Station seek curators for their P.O.W.E.R. Project, and power-pop four-piece Gal Gun drop their first full-length.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Growing Concerns, Growing Concerns Poetry Collective, Mykele Deville, McKenzie Chinn, Jeffrey Michael Austin, We Here: Thank You for Noticing, Five Fifths, Steppenwolf, 1700 Theatre, vinyl, Sam Trump, Tasha, Art Leaders of Color Network, Comfort Station, P.O.W.E.R. Project, Preparation, Organization, Wonderment, Empowerment, Resistance, Gal Gun, Special Music of Emotion, Dumpster Tapes, Girl K, Jimmy Floortom, Beach Bunny, Sports

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 5, 2017
Video
Dumpster Tapes showcases local Latinx talent at the second annual Demolición

Plus: Chicago groove machines the Lowdown Brass Band celebrate a new album, and Logan Hardware throws a sale devoted to the seven-inch.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Demolición, Latinx, Dumpster Tapes, Alex Fryer, Auxiliary Art Center, Ang13, Andy Cirzan, Tone B. Nimble, Big Dig, Logan Hardware, Seeburg jukebox, raffle, 45s, seven-inches, Lowdown Brass Band, Lowdown Breaks, Lester Rey, Laverne, the Ponderers, Cafe Racer, Los Gold Fires, Center for Popular Democracy, Hurricane Maria Community Relief & Recovery Fund, Fada Dougou, Ghost Town, Subterranean, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 10, 2017
Great Chicago label, meet great Chicago band: Trouble in Mind signs Facs

Plus: Local shops celebrate Cassette Store Day with exclusives and in-store performances, and the Eradicator take a step up the D squash ladder with their self-titled album.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Facs, Disappears, Trouble in Mind, Bill Roe, Lisa Roe, Brian Case, Negative Houses, debut, Cassette Store Day, Jump Up, Curbside, Bucket O’ Blood, Logan Hardware, Shuga, Bric-a-Brac, Dark Fog, Ralph “Soul” Jackson, Grabbing Clouds, Already Dead, Dumpster Tapes, Girlsville, Boombox Sessions Vol. II, Danny Rebel, Droids Blood, King Tony, Tavi Veraldi, Poor Milk, the Eradicator, Eradicator, Kids in the Hall, Subterranean, Bong Mountain, Engines, “Richardson” Richardson

Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 18, 2017
Garage-rock label Randy Records drops debut LPs by Skip Church and Today’s Hits

Plus: Dumpster Tapes celebrates its third Monster Compilation at Cole’s, and Bottom Lounge and Lincoln Hall host fund-raising mini festivals.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Randy Records, Yolks, Skip Church, Today’s Hits, Out of Tune, in Touch With the Devil, Nathan Johnson, the Levee, Dumpster Tapes, Monster Compilation Vol. 3, No Men, Bunny, Dan Rico, Cole’s, Mia Joy, Krozer, Laverne, Soft Candy, All Tomorrow’s Impeachments, Bottom Lounge, Dianogah, Poison Arrows, Tar, Localpalooza, ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Patrick Grange Memorial Foundation, ALS, Ivorys, Rich Jones, Bad Bad Meow, Lincoln Hall

Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 14, 2017
The Burlington conjures up a witch-house night

Plus: Local record labels take over the Empty Bottle for an afternoon, and noise-rock trio Wishgift end a five-year drought with a new album.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Black Magick, witch house, Burlington, Burlington Bar, Satanic Hispanic, Lake Radio, Vril Ya, Alpha Omega, Maldicion, Dyonna Cross, Thee Benevolent Order of Chicago Record Labels, Empty Bottle, record fair, winter record label fair, Parlour Tapes, Dumpster Tapes, Tall Pat Records, Maximum Pelt, Eye Vybe, Hausu Mountain, Moniker Records, Trouble in Mind, Wishgift, self-titled, Sophomore Lounge, Lake Paradise

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2016
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Bunny infuse the lo-fi garage pop of ‘Promises’ with late-summer humidity

Young Chicago garage group Bunny dropped their first video last week, and they play East Room tonight.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Bunny, Jessica Viscius, Dumpster Tapes, Promises, 12 O'Clock Track, the Curls, Richard Album & the Singles, Teenage Rage, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2016
Video
Chicago rockers Liqs stir up sweet cacophony tonight at Township

Liqs have been making noise in Chicago's DIY garage scene, but you can hear them play their great recent single, "Nothing for Me," at a legit venue too.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Do This, Music, Liqs, Nothing for Me, 12 O'Clock Track, Twin Peaks, Dumpster Tapes, Nick Van Horn, Houseshow Magazine, Township, Jeffery Drag Records, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 15, 2016
Heavy Times play a last hometown show before guitarist Matt Courtade moves to LA

Plus: Jes Skolnik of Split Feet decamps to New York for a Bandcamp job, and Dumpster Tapes drops a second monster compilation.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Matt Courtade, Heavy Times, HoZac, Black Sunglasses, Los Angeles, Jes Skolnik, Split Feet, Pure Joy, Bandcamp, New York, Dumpster Tapes, Glyders, Dim, Monster Compilation Vol. 2, Shah Jahan, MTVghosts, Lala Lala, White Mystery

Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2015
Find your favorite new local rock LP at the Chicago Independent Labels Pop-Up Shop

The inaugural event celebrates new music made by small local labels.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Do This, Swag, Music, Chicago Independent Labels Pop-Up Shop, CHIRP Record Fair, Matt Pakulski, Empty Bottle, Permanent Records, Impossible Colors, Moniker Records, Athletic Tapes, Dark Circles Records, Hairy Spider Legs, Already Dead Tapes and Records, Parlour Tapes, Grabbing Clouds Records & Tapes, Lake Paradise Records, Pretty All Right, Berserk Records, Tall Pat Records, Dumpster Tapes, FPE Records, Eye Vybe Records, 1980 Records, Safety Records, Maximum Pelt Records

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 24, 2014
Metal maniac Carmelo Española debuts the fanzine Distort/Delay

Plus: Dumpster Tapes drops its first label comp, OnYou celebrate their best album yet, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Carmelo Española, Distort/Delay, Diseased Audio, Bongripper, Phillip "VK" Kusabs, Dave Kristiansen, Abyss, Plustapes, Urbanism and Ecology, William Selman, Warmdesk, Dustin Drase, Dumpster Tapes, Monster Compilation Vol. 1, Slushy, Paul Cherry, OnYou, Velvet Underground, Can, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Bitchin Bajas, Captcha, Ultimum Photon a Sole, Hideout, Shapers, Chandeliers

Music, In Rotation Jul 21, 2014
In Rotation: Alex Fryer of Dumpster Tapes on the best Donnas songs to play for a crush

Plus: Justin Vittori of Rainbow Gun Show on the city’s best record shop, the Reader's Leor Galil on a horrible racist seven-inch, and more
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: In Rotation, records, seven-inches, 45s, Mrs. Carol Edwards, Craig Wedren & Pink Ape, David Wain, movies, soundtracks, Star and Crescent, Alex Fryer, Pookie & the Poodlez, EPs, Trevor Straub, Rubber Vomit, Nobunny, The Donnas, covers, The Urinals, WHPK, Fill Spectre, Mika Miko, High Tension Wires, Negative Scanner, Rainbow Gun Show, Gross Pointe, American Breakfast, Dumpster Tapes, Uh Bones, Bric-a-Brac Records

Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 5, 2014
Gossip Wolf: A radio remembrance of Da's Lorna Donley

Plus: New music from MC the Buttress and scum punks Flesh Panthers
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Lorna Donley, Da, Harold Washington Library, Empty Bottle, Abbey Pub, the Veil, the Buttress, Jessica Hopper, Inferno, Behind Every Great Man, Daniel Fandino, Critical Distance, Flesh Panthers, Ryan Zombotron, Dumpster Tapes, Dead Boys, Tall Pat Records, Thunderunderus, Jelly Korea, LiveWire Lounge

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Plus: College radio stations WHPK and WNUR fill the weekend with festivals, and Flesh Panthers turn “flower punk” on a new Dumpster Tapes release.

Chicago label Dumpster Tapes books this daylong festival because segregation won’t undo itself.

Schubert and his live band celebrate Fine Prints' release of the second Ruins EP with a show on Wednesday night.

Plus: Devin Shaffer outdoes her own dreamy folk on Yarrow’s latest, and throwback garage-pop act Cut Worms celebrates a cassette release of its debut full-length.

Plus: Groove Cafe releases a compilation to benefit rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico, the Chicago hip-hop scene remembers Henny B, and more.

Plus: Disruptor editor Lucas Reif on last year’s most important hardcore record, Reader writer Leor Galil on an emo rapper whose sad songs feel good, and more

Plus: The Art Leaders of Color Network and the Comfort Station seek curators for their P.O.W.E.R. Project, and power-pop four-piece Gal Gun drop their first full-length.

Plus: Chicago groove machines the Lowdown Brass Band celebrate a new album, and Logan Hardware throws a sale devoted to the seven-inch.

Plus: Local shops celebrate Cassette Store Day with exclusives and in-store performances, and the Eradicator take a step up the D squash ladder with their self-titled album.

Plus: Dumpster Tapes celebrates its third Monster Compilation at Cole’s, and Bottom Lounge and Lincoln Hall host fund-raising mini festivals.

Plus: Local record labels take over the Empty Bottle for an afternoon, and noise-rock trio Wishgift end a five-year drought with a new album.

Young Chicago garage group Bunny dropped their first video last week, and they play East Room tonight.

Liqs have been making noise in Chicago's DIY garage scene, but you can hear them play their great recent single, "Nothing for Me," at a legit venue too.

Plus: Jes Skolnik of Split Feet decamps to New York for a Bandcamp job, and Dumpster Tapes drops a second monster compilation.

The inaugural event celebrates new music made by small local labels.

Plus: Dumpster Tapes drops its first label comp, OnYou celebrate their best album yet, and more

Plus: Justin Vittori of Rainbow Gun Show on the city’s best record shop, the Reader's Leor Galil on a horrible racist seven-inch, and more

Plus: New music from MC the Buttress and scum punks Flesh Panthers

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