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Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2017
Drake’s diaspora, Discogs drama, DJ ‘controllerism,’ and more of the week’s best music writing

Plus: pieces about the queer experience in contemporary dance and the intimacy of abrasive noise
- By Austin Brown
- Tags: Music, Did You Read __________?, Drake, dancehall, afrobeat, Caribbean, Jamaica, More Life, controllerism, Madeon, Daedalus, DJ Rashad, Discogs, Billy Yeager, Octo Octa, Terre Thaemlitz, DJ Sprinkles, Pharmakon, power electronics, house music, techno, drum & bass, noise

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Aug 16, 2016
Charley Organaire helped introduce the harmonica to ska and reggae

Charles "Organaire" Cameron had an illustrious career in Jamaica before settling in Chicago in the 70s, where he continues to record and perform.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Charley Organaire, Charlie Organaire, Charles Organaire, Charles Cameron, harmonica, Jamaica, reggae, ska, rocksteady, Jump Up Records, Chuck Wren, Kingston, Vere Johns, Jimmy Tucker, Laurel Aitken, Bobby Aitken, Carib Beats, Never Never, Wailers, Derrick Morgan, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Millie Small, Elusive Baby, Sunshine Festival, Prizefighters, Chicago Concerned Jamaicans

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jul 5, 2016
Pastor T.L. Barrett cut a widely sampled gospel-funk album in 1971

Pastor T.L. Barrett has been a lot of things: an activist preacher, a top-shelf gospel-funk musician, a convicted scammer.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, T.L. Barrett, Pastor T.L. Barrett, Jamaica, Long Island, Bethel Bible Institute, Village Gate, Mt. Zion Church, Life Center Church of God in Christ, COGIC, Like a Ship . . . (Without a Sail), Youth for Christ Choir, T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, Richard Evans, Cadet, Light in the Attic, I Found the Answer, WBMX, WJBC, Do Not Pass Me By, Roots, Lord's Prayer, Jesse Jackson, Eugene Sawyer, Million Man March, pyramid scheme

Food & Drink, Cocktail Challenge Jun 12, 2014
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Cocktail Challenge: Asafetida

Aaron Dexter of the Owl gets a whiff of "devil's dung."
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Cocktail Challenge, Asafetida, Jonathan Van Herik, Rainbo Club, Aaron Dexter, the Owl, Jamaica, Preventative Exorcism, rum, campari, Angostura bitters, ginger beer, Brian Bolles, Maude's Liquor Bar, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2013
Video
Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Ulzana's Raid, Robert Aldrich, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Emperor of the North, The Longest Yard, The Spectacular Now, The Act of Killing, Andrea Gronvall, J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Apache, Vera Cruz, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Precious, The Paperboy, The Canyons, Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser, Expose Me Lovely, Raymond Chandler, Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, Gene Siskel Film Center, Highland Park, In a World..., lake Bell, Kick-Ass 2, comic book adaptation, Steve Jobs, Jobs, biopic, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, Sabata, spaghetti western, Black Harvest Film Festival, Home Again, Jamaica, The Retrieval, revival screenings, Faust, F.W. Murnau, John Ford, The Long Voyage Home, Eugene O'Neill, Doc Films, Diamond Jim, Preston Sturges, Patio Theater, David Fincher, Zodiac, Panic Room, Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat, Video

Film, Artist on Artist Jul 3, 2012
Video
Artist on Artist: Dancehall superstar Yellowman talks to MC Zulu

"Nothing good comes out of Jamaica in terms of music right now, because everybody want to be rich."
- Tags: Artist on Artist, Yellowman, dancehall, dancehall music, Jamaica, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, roots reggae, slack music, MC Zulu, Chrissy Murderbot, Nobody move, nobody get hurt, Operation Eradication, third-world country, class warfare, GraceKennedy Group, Eazy-E, albino, Busy Signal, Mr. Vegas, Vybz Kartel, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2010
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Wah Do Dem

The Brooklyn-indie-rocker-lost-in-Jamaica comedy "Wah Do Dem" makes its Chicago debut in a double feature with "The Harder They Come," tonight at Lincoln Hall.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Free Shit, Swag, Wah Do Dem, Jamaica, Harder They Fall, Lincoln Hall, Sean Bones, Norah Jones, CIMMfest, Jimmy Cliff, Sam Champion, The Congos, Carl Bradshaw, Ben Chase, Sam Fleischner, Video

Music, Music Sidebar Aug 5, 2009
Caribbean Festival

Reggae-heavy festival in Union Park this weekend.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Caribbean Festival, Union Park, Beres Hammond, Leon & the Peoples, Jamaica, reggae, Tanto Metro, Tarrus Riley, Chi-Town Idol

Blogs, Bleader Feb 23, 2009
Jamaica decides to try censorship

Jamaica's airwaves to go PG?
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Politics, Censorship, Dancehall, reggae, daggering, Jamaica

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Drake’s diaspora, Discogs drama, DJ ‘controllerism,’ and more of the week’s best music writing

Plus: pieces about the queer experience in contemporary dance and the intimacy of abrasive noise

Charley Organaire helped introduce the harmonica to ska and reggae

Charles "Organaire" Cameron had an illustrious career in Jamaica before settling in Chicago in the 70s, where he continues to record and perform.

Pastor T.L. Barrett cut a widely sampled gospel-funk album in 1971

Pastor T.L. Barrett has been a lot of things: an activist preacher, a top-shelf gospel-funk musician, a convicted scammer.

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Cocktail Challenge: Asafetida

Aaron Dexter of the Owl gets a whiff of "devil's dung."

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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

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Artist on Artist: Dancehall superstar Yellowman talks to MC Zulu

"Nothing good comes out of Jamaica in terms of music right now, because everybody want to be rich."

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Wah Do Dem

The Brooklyn-indie-rocker-lost-in-Jamaica comedy "Wah Do Dem" makes its Chicago debut in a double feature with "The Harder They Come," tonight at Lincoln Hall.

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Plus: pieces about the queer experience in contemporary dance and the intimacy of abrasive noise

Charles "Organaire" Cameron had an illustrious career in Jamaica before settling in Chicago in the 70s, where he continues to record and perform.

Pastor T.L. Barrett has been a lot of things: an activist preacher, a top-shelf gospel-funk musician, a convicted scammer.

Aaron Dexter of the Owl gets a whiff of "devil's dung."

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between August 16 and 22.

"Nothing good comes out of Jamaica in terms of music right now, because everybody want to be rich."

The Brooklyn-indie-rocker-lost-in-Jamaica comedy "Wah Do Dem" makes its Chicago debut in a double feature with "The Harder They Come," tonight at Lincoln Hall.

Reggae-heavy festival in Union Park this weekend.

Jamaica's airwaves to go PG?

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