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- Music, Chicagoans of Note Mar 18, 2021
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Alejandro Ayala, aka King Hippo, DJ and producer
“You bring people together and something will always happen. . . . The how is pretty easy, but the why is more important to me.”
- Music, Music Review Feb 4, 2021
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Japan’s Coffins share their stench on rarities compilation Defilements
- Music, Music Review Dec 30, 2020
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Prolific Japanese artists Boris and Merzbow bid farewell to 2020 together
- 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
- Music, Music Review Sep 19, 2020
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Zora Jones’s Ten Billion Angels is an electronic fantasy inspired by tentacle porn
- Music, Music Review Sep 14, 2020
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Phew’s harrowing synth-and-voice experiments on Vertigo KO channel the dread of living in our world
- Music, Music Review Jul 10, 2020
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Boris rage against a world turned upside down on the urgent, hardcore-driven No
- Music, Music Review Jun 26, 2020
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The most interesting man in Japanese jazz leads an international quartet
- Music, Music Review May 8, 2020
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Kassel Jaeger and Jim O’Rourke take us on a journey with In Cobalt Aura Sleeps
- Music, Music Review Mar 13, 2020
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Former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki still diving into impromptu moments
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 14, 2020
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Longtime Reckless Records buyer Jim Magas quits to spend more time with his music
Plus: Emo four-piece Kittyhawk play their first show in more than three years, and Clear drops a posthumous 12-inch by the late Dan Jugle’s duo Juzer.
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 11, 2019
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Shintaro Sakamoto finds the realness in cheesy lounge pop
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 12, 2019
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Babymetal find the horror in pop and the cuteness in metal
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 6, 2019
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Two of modern heavy music’s most prolific acts, Boris and Uniform, hit the road together
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature May 30, 2019
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A brief history of ramen
An excerpt from Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan’s forthcoming comic cookbook Let’s Make Ramen!
- Film, Movie Review Jan 9, 2019
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The Owl’s Legacy is the best symposium on ancient Greece you’ll ever sit in on
Chris Marker’s multipart essay film screens all month at the Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2017
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Report: Emanuel's relying on campaign donors who get City Hall benefits, and other Chicago news
Also, Rauner is visiting China and Japan on his first international trade mission this week.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jul 12, 2017
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Everyone in Chicago should see ‘Then They Came for Me’
A powerful art exhibit about Japanese-Americans and internment camps is also deeply relevant in the current historical moment.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jun 14, 2017
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Who’s the octopus in Takashi Murakami’s ‘The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg’?
A new exhibit of the Japanese artist’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2017
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Moonlight, Major Lazer, and midwestern Devo heads: music stories making the rounds on the Web
The Reader's weekly look at music stories we didn't publish ourselves
- Music, In Rotation Aug 9, 2016
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Kittyhawk’s Kate Grube on sassy Japanese math-rock
Plus: Peggy Fioretti of Kickstand Productions on the perfect doo-wop group, Reader writer Leor Galil on a mixtape that bottles the magic of summer, and more
- Film, Movie Review Jan 14, 2016
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For Japanese director Seijun Suzuki, low budgets yielded high art
Tokyo Drifter and Fighting Elegy show the B-movie auteur at his most expressive.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2015
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Fink from Teengenerate has a new single with the Raydios
Fink has been tinkering with trashy, exuberant garage punk for 25 years, and "Brand New Kid" combines melody and pell-mell drive.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2015
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Masaki Batoh of Ghost debuts new group the Silence
The Silence's "Lemon Iro No Cannabis" is a grandly ornate and pastorally serene fusion of classic rock and psychedelia.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 24, 2014
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In Level Five, a computer-game programmer tries to erase the history of Japanese atrocities
Experimental filmmaker Chris Marker revisits the bloody Battle of Okinawa.
