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- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 22, 2021
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Food, health, sleep, and screens: We Series focuses on the essentials
Anything goes during this evening on Twitch.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Nov 13, 2020
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Stuck inside ain't that bad
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2020
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing its traditional huge outdoor affair with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Aug 12, 2020
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Creative collisions on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist and performer Cristal Sabbagh with assistance from Natalya Sturlis and Scott Rubin.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 30, 2020
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Want live music back? Wear a mask and call Congress.
Staff from 22 Chicago music venues talk about how far they still are from normal—and what it’ll take to keep them around till we all get there.
- Music, Music Review Jul 22, 2020
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Ben Baker Billington’s Quicksails builds whole worlds from serene synths
- 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, Music Review May 15, 2020
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Tashi Dorji and Tyler Damon’s marvelous improvised concert at the May Chapel rings out again
- Music, Music Feature Mar 26, 2020
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Live music finds a way
Livestreaming allows Chicagoans to continue playing concerts for one another.
- Music, Concert Preview Mar 9, 2020
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Three restless musicians—Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, and Paul Lytton—push one another to new horizons
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 7, 2020
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Franco-Japanese quartet Kaze use dueling trumpets and contrasting compositional approaches to open up improvisational possibilities
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 31, 2020
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Experimental musician Daniel Wyche celebrates his 40th birthday with a show at Elastic Arts
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 24, 2020
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Gerrit Hatcher updates Chicago’s tenor sax tradition
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 22, 2020
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Star Creature Universal Vibrations starts 2020 with a bundle of boogie
Plus: Elastic Arts debuts a 16-channel overhead sound system, and Roommate play their first set of Cure covers in five years.
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 3, 2020
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The transnational Rempis/Lopez/Packard trio converges in Chicago
- Music, In Rotation Dec 23, 2019
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Cellist Lia Kohl on a joyful live series that randomly collides improvisers
Plus: Drummer Tim Daisy on a fresh take on a classic Brazilian sound, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on a gorgeous art-rock record going extinct, and more
- Music, Concert Preview Nov 29, 2019
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Veteran local drummer isn’t just at the head of his class, he’s a boss with glass
- Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 12, 2019
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Drummer Tim Daisy hits a hot streak with his record label
Plus: Indie rockers Jupiter Styles celebrate a star-studded sophomore album, and producer Brother El raises funds for a vegan cookbook.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 5, 2019
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Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn document their dynamic duo with an album
Plus: Friends band together to help Jazz Showcase founder Joe Segal with medical bills, and power-pop veteran Jeff Lescher of Green celebrates a new solo record.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 6, 2019
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Why is Chicago jazz so successful in Europe?
Expat musicians Frank Rosaly and Rob Clearfield discuss the differences between pursuing jazz here and overseas.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
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The Reader’s guide to the 2019 Chicago Jazz Festival
Its sprawling cross section of the genre includes world-changing explorers the Art Ensemble of Chicago, trad band the Fat Babies, venerable guitarist George Freeman, and restless experimenter Rob Mazurek.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
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Saxophonist Dave Rempis builds a band with the stamina for deep dives
The lively quartet this Chicago mainstay brings to the festival finds the meditative heart of free improvisation.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 22, 2019
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The Jazz Festival’s orbit bustles with too much music for one weekend
Its ten days of neighborhood concerts, satellite shows, and aftersets include Kidd Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker, Marc Ribot, and Ben Sidran.
- 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.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 27, 2018
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Mutant Beat Dance throw a little party for their monster debut album
Plus: Experimental musician Anthony Janas brings a pachinko machine to Elastic, and former Ponys front man Jered Gummere drops his first full-length as Richard Vain.
