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Music, Music Review Dec 22, 2020
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The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensemble
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Review, The Miyumi Project, The Best of the Miyumi Project, FPE Records, Tatsu Aoki, Tokyo, Japan, filmmaker, jazz, improvised music, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Asian, Jamie Kempkers, Mwata Bowden, Rami Atassi, Ameen Muhammad, Recommended

Music, Music Review Jul 11, 2020
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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: Music Review, Nicole Mitchell, EarthSeed, Lisa E. Harris, Afrofuturists, jazz, Black Earth Ensemble, Houston, Pittsburgh, FPE Records, Texas, opera, Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Jun 17, 2020
Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?

Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.
- By Jack Riedy
- Tags: Music Feature, Spotify, Bandcamp, Amazon Music, Pandora, Sirius XM, Google Play, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, YouTube Content ID, streaming, royalties, digital music, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, Sooper Records, Numero Group, Glenn Curran, Rob Sevier, Matt Pakulski, FPE Records, Dave Rempis, Aerophonic Records, Doug Kaplan, Hausu Mountain, Jessi Frick, Father/Daughter Records, Open Mike Eagle, Why? Records, Joshua Virtue, Trichordist, Taylor Swift, Scottie McNiece, International Anthem, RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America, Nnamï, Black Plight, Jackie’s House, Midia Research, Mark Mulligan, ASCAP, BMI, Copyright Royalty Board, National Music Publishers’ Association, Nashville Songwriters’ Association International, pro rata, user-centric, Joe Rogan, podcast, Frances Farlee, Artist Fundraising Pick, Matt Muse, Josh Kim, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Jordan Reyes, American Dreams Records, Cavanaugh, Quarantine Recordings, Serengeti, Art Is Love Vol. 1, Wyatt Waddell, Fight!, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Saint Icky, Black Skin, Assata’s Daughters, EAT Chicago, Healthy Hood Chicago, My Block My Hood My City, Quarantine Concerts, Do Division Street Fest, livestream, GLOhan Beats, D2X, Experimental Sound Studio

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.
- By John Corbett
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, jazz, Nicole Mitchell, flute, Mandorla Awakening, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, Black Earth Ensemble, FPE Records, UC Irvine, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Tomeka Reid, Tatsu Aoki, Alex Wing, Mamapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Ulysses Jenkins, Reneé Baker, Kojiro Umezaki, Jovia Armstrong, Avery R. Young, Damon Locks, Sun Ra, Lisa E. Harris, Earthseed, Octavia Butler, Iridescent, Christina Wheeler, Maroon Cloud, Fay Victor, Aruan Ortiz, Val Jeanty, Imani Uzuri, Afrofuturism

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2017
Former Chicagoan Nicole Mitchell digs deeper into Afrofuturism with her new album, Mandorla Awakening II

The suite, recorded live at the MCA in 2015, imagines a reconciliation between a destructive dystopia and cooperative utopia.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Nicole Mitchell, jazz, Afrofuturism, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, FPE Records, Octavia Butler, Lisa E. Harris, Avery R. Young, Shiny Divider, Kojiro Umezaki, Xenogenesis Suite

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 25, 2017
This year’s Winter Block Party celebrates women in Chicago hip-hop

Plus: The eighth Chicago Psych Fest fogs up the Hideout, and FPE Records throws itself a birthday bash at the Empty Bottle.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, WBEZ, Young Chicago Authors, Metro, Winter Block Party, hip-hop, dance, graffiti, Jamila Woods, Kaina, Medicine Woman, Lin-Z, Amina Norman-Hawkins, Urbanized Music, Sweet ASL, Burns Twins, Bedows, Drea Smith, Ravyn Lenae, Via Rosa, Jean Deaux, Chicago Psych Fest, Hideout, Frozen Mind, Post Animal, TALsounds, Spectralina, Selina Trepp, Dan Bitney, Ryley Walker, Bill MacKay, Michael Zerang, Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta, Magic Carpet, FPE Records, For Practically Everybody, Empty Bottle, anniversary, Zigtebra, Vox, Syrhea Conway, Syna So Pro, Fury

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

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The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensemble

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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed

Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?

Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.

Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.

Former Chicagoan Nicole Mitchell digs deeper into Afrofuturism with her new album, Mandorla Awakening II

The suite, recorded live at the MCA in 2015, imagines a reconciliation between a destructive dystopia and cooperative utopia.

This year’s Winter Block Party celebrates women in Chicago hip-hop

Plus: The eighth Chicago Psych Fest fogs up the Hideout, and FPE Records throws itself a birthday bash at the Empty Bottle.

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.

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Recommended The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensemble

Recommended Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed

Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?

Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.

Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.

Former Chicagoan Nicole Mitchell digs deeper into Afrofuturism with her new album, Mandorla Awakening II

The suite, recorded live at the MCA in 2015, imagines a reconciliation between a destructive dystopia and cooperative utopia.

This year’s Winter Block Party celebrates women in Chicago hip-hop

Plus: The eighth Chicago Psych Fest fogs up the Hideout, and FPE Records throws itself a birthday bash at the Empty Bottle.

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.

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The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensemble

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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed