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- Music, Music Review Nov 10, 2020
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Chicago duo Cleared atomize their stark rock sound on The Key
- Music, Music Review Oct 16, 2020
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Laura Jane Grace grapples with modern times on the urgent, stripped-down Stay Alive
- Music, Music Feature Feb 11, 2020
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Beach Bunny jump straight to the championship round
Lili Trifilio and her indie-punk band have climbed from Chicago's DIY scene to stages most musicians never reach, and their first studio album, Honeymoon, comes out just this week.
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 3, 2019
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Two of Chicago’s rising dark rock groups collaborate in the studio and onstage
- Music, Music Feature Jun 24, 2019
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Metropolitan Brewing teams up with Pelican for the biere de garde Cold Hope
Beer and Metal returns to review a long-gestating collaboration by two beloved Chicago institutions.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 17, 2019
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Natural Information Society make the stage a home—and vice versa
Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado help give this Chicago collective’s transcendent minimalism a family feeling.
- Music, Concert Preview Apr 11, 2019
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Drone titans Sunn O))) play two shows at Rockefeller Chapel and release the beautiful new Life Metal
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2017
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There’s a chorus of kittens on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by Jay Ryan.
- Music, In Rotation Jun 26, 2017
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Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece
Plus: Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party on a record so danceable it has its own energy drink, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on a long, strange film about the Grateful Dead, and more
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife 2015 Critics' Picks Jun 24, 2015
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Best group of veterans of the Blue Man backing band
- Music, Music Feature Feb 17, 2015
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Daniel Knox gives our derelicts the beautiful music they deserve
He learned to play piano in hotel lobbies and likes to wander the city alone at night. Now he's made one of the best singer-songwriter albums of the year.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2015
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Electric Hawk share an early taste of their imminent second album tonight at the Hideout
Bombastic, gratuitously complicated, and thoroughly great, "Sex Embargo" appears on Electric Hawk II, due out April 14.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2014
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Foo Fighters take a trek through Chicago's musical history on HBO's Sonic Highways, with mixed results
The alternative-rock titans come to Chicago in the first episode of their HBO series, named after their forthcoming record.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 1, 2014
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Jason Molina's long dark blues
The Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. front man produced a prodigious catalog of stark and heartbreaking music. Then he disappeared.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 2, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: Walking Bicycles gear up for their first LP in five years
Plus: New trio Lifestyles forms from members of three beloved local bands, and Johnny Love releases more nu-industrial as Deathface.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2014
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Check out Pinebender and Hum get all Let It Be at the PRFBBQ
The gigantic music festival takes over Borelli's dining room, basement, and rooftop this weekend.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 17, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Hollywood Holt joins Beyonce and Andre 3000 on the Great American Soundtrack
Plus: A sophomore effort from synth-popper Fielded and toil and trouble from dirt-rock trio Lil Tits
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2012
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Locrian signs to Relapse
The revered metal label scoops up another Chicago act.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 8, 2011
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Grand Funk Harley-Davidson
An “American Band” serenades the hogs on 9/11. Plus: Tyson Torstensen of Ga’an and Magical Beautiful jumps on the podcast wagon, and Icy Demons main man Griffin Rodriguez returns to record Mike Reed’s Myth/Science Assembly
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2010
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That Whole Paying-Off-Electrical-Audio Thing? Never Mind.
Tim Midgett brings an end to his fund-raising campaign to pay off the studio's mortgage.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 6, 2010
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Gossip Wolf: Feed the Animals
Girl Talk gorges at Graham Elliot, the Electrical Audio forum's annual sausage party, and more
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 1, 2010
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Touch and Go, the Book
Also: Wax Trax the book, Dismemberment Plan's first 12-inch, new music from Psalm One, Tim Kinsella eats food, and more
- Music, Music Feature Mar 18, 2010
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The Man Behind the Metal
If it's heavy and it was recorded in Chicago, there's a good chance Sanford Parker was at the mixing board.
