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- Music, Music Review Jun 5, 2020
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Multifaceted Chicago musician Thomas DaVinci makes his case for greatness on Home Grown
- Music, Music Review Mar 20, 2020
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Philadelphia indie rocker (Sandy) Alex G closes a prolific decade with the stunning House of Sugar
- Music, Music Feature May 29, 2019
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Johari Noelle packs years of soul into her first five songs
The Chicago native’s polished debut EP benefits from years of choir and theater, half a season on reality TV, and nearly 18 months in the studio.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2017
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Toronto’s rave ban, Mexico’s surf scene, Juliana Hatfield on Lorde, and more: music reading from around the Web
The Reader cherry-picks some favorite music stories from the past week of the Internet.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2016
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Frank Ocean pleads for a lover to stick around on Blonde standout track "Self Control"
R&B singer Frank Ocean has returned after a four-year absence, but one of his best new songs concerns a lover on the cusp of disappearing from his life.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2014
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Chance the Rapper will release a new album, Surf, with the Social Experiment by the end of the year
Chance the Rapper has announced that he'll release a new, free album with his band the Social Experiment by the end of 2014.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 31, 2013
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Unlicensed to ill
Bootleg rap and R&B vinyl is thriving, even though most of the music is easy to buy or free to download.
- Music, Record Roundup Aug 19, 2013
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Earl Sweatshirt's humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
Seven Reader writers want you to hear Sich Mang's seizure-inducing psychedelic EDM and No Age's experimental two-chord punk—and that's just for starters.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2013
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The unstoppable Pharrell Williams
The brilliant one-trick pony superproducer is back on top.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 20, 2013
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Tim'm West and the masculine mystique
In his career as a hip-hop artist—and now through his work at the Center on Halsted—West has demonstrated that there's more than one way to be a black gay man.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 18, 2013
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My favorite albums of 2012, numbers ten through one
The final installment of 40 favorite albums of 2012 countdown
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2013
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Outkast isn't reuniting—deal with it
What the Outkast member's Frank Ocean remix and the response to it says about our growing desire to see our wildest musical dreams come true
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2012
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Frank Ocean and pop music's online identity in 2012
Frank Ocean leads the charge in making the Internet and pop music safer for sincerity
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2012
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My Best of 2012 Spotify playlist—five hours of the year's most pleasure-inducing music
Where else can you hear ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid" and E-40's "I'm Laced" in the same place?
- Music, Music Feature Dec 26, 2012
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The Year in Review: Music
Reader writers tackle the past 12 months from six different directions
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 10, 2012
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The best Frank Ocean bootleg remix of the day
Flying Lotus gives R&B-loving stoners a nice surprise
- Music, Music Feature Aug 21, 2012
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Jeremih goes rogue
An artsy, ambitious new mixtape puts the man who sang "Birthday Sex" on the same page as Frank Ocean and the Weeknd
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2012
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We made it through Lollapalooza
Not even a storm evacuation, an amazingly terrible smell, and even worse sound could keep some of Lollapalooza's music from shining
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2012
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Lollapalooza: Photos from day two
FUN., the Weeknd, Bloc Party, Frank Ocean, and an ocean of rain!
- Music, Music Feature Aug 1, 2012
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How to make it through Lollapalooza
Grant Park is going to look like a hypercapitalist refugee camp all weekend, but our hour-by-hour itinerary will lead you to so much great music that you'll hardly mind
- Music, In Rotation Jul 23, 2012
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In Rotation: DJ All the Way Kay on Frank Ocean's superhot new LP
Plus: WCRX FM music director Nicki Butler on Wild Flag at Pitchfork, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on huffing the Psychic Paramount's fog, and more
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 19, 2012
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Gossip Wolf: Pitchfork predictions, round one
Cloud Nothings and Willis Earl Beal for sure—maybe Bon Iver, Chavez, or Frank Ocean? Plus: A fund-raiser for stricken DJ Jonathan Toubin and a delicious new album from Bobby Conn
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2011
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The year in music: best free albums
The best in no-cost rock, R&B, and rap