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Music, Music Review Dec 3, 2020
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Joan of Arc say goodbye with the touchingly esoteric Tim Melina Theo Bobby
- By David Anthony
- Tags: Music Review, Joyful Noise Recordings, Joan of Arc, Tim Melina Theo Bobby, Tim Kinsella, indie-rock, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Feature Nov 25, 2020
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A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern

For decades, this cozy candlelit bar in Bucktown nurtured a devoted and welcoming community of music lovers—but it couldn’t survive the pandemic.
- By Jacob Arnold
- Tags: Music Feature, Danny’s Tavern, Bucktown, Danny’s, Sheer Magic, Play, Hot on the Heels, Danny Cimaglio, closed, closure, Angie Hebda, Terry Alexander, Michael Noone, Peter Nelson, 1951 W. Dickens, Sheree Rose, Ike Hobbs, Martin Giese, Dave Rodman, Tom Billings, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Wax Trax!, Eric Puls, Scott Harris Mia Francesca, Kevin Stacy, Ken Kordich, Okno, Soul Kitchen, One Off Hospitality, Jeff Parker, Damon Locks, Joshua Abrams, Ben Vida, Beau Wanzer, Claude Rains, Foster Grant, Courtland Green, Supreme Court, Kim Ambriz, Warren Lee, Empire State Soul Club, Scott Craig, Mark Henning, Dante Carfagna, Jamie Hodge, Shaun Pauling, Richard Smith, Rik Shaw, Deadly Dragon Sound System, Great Silence, Dave Bramble, Tony Janda, Big Tony, Stephen Sowley, Melissa Grubbs, Wayne Montana, Eternally Yours, Bob Davies, Brian Kelly, Alex Horn, Nanodust, Ray Rodriguez, DJ Ray_Rod, Marc Hellner, Marc Arcuri, Chandeliers, Brian Case, Bobby Burg, Joan of Arc, Joe Proulx, Love Boat, Chris Johnson, DJ Shoulders, Adam Gruel, Jen Kienzler, DJ Quick Paw, Peace Party, Naomi Walker, Jocelyn Brown, John Herndon, Soft Pow, Josh Berman, Jason Adasiewicz, Anton Hatwich, David Boykin, Isaiah Spencer, Reminder, Town and Country, Jim Dorling, Liz Payne, International Anthem, Uncanned Music, Scottie McNiece, Makaya McCraven, Junius Paul, Nick Mazzarella, Ben LaMar Gay, Hans Ballard, Night Moves, Off Chances, Ross Winston, Lono Brazil, Disco Unusual, Chances Dances, Jamie Hayes, Tanja Buhler, Party Line, Video

Music, Music Review Jun 5, 2020
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Heartbreak, melodic intricacy, and lush arrangements shape Owen’s tenth album, The Avalanche
- By Scott Morrow
- Tags: Music Review, Owen, The Avalanche, Polyvinyl Records, indie-rock, Mike Kinsella, Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, American Football, American Football (LP3), Sean Carey, Bon Iver, The King of Whys, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review Apr 10, 2020
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Tim Kinsella’s Friend/Enemy re-emerges after 18 years with koans about America’s nightmare
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Tim Kinsella, Friend/Enemy, HIH NO/ON, Joyful Noise, 2016 presidential election, Ten Songs, Todd Mattei, He's Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands, Joan of Arc, Mute Duo, Bill MacKay, Jamey Robinson, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, Sam Wagster, American Football, Nate Kinsella, Jenny Pulse, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Mar 21, 2019
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Chicago postpunks Facs cut their last tether

This abstract, minimalist trio inherited members from Disappears, but they’ve found the personnel and the sound to become a self-contained band.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Feature, Facs, Disappears, Brian Case, Noah Leger, Alianna Kalaba, Jonathan van Herik, Damon Carruesco, We Ragazzi, 90 Day Men, Dishes, Electric Hawk, Milemarker, Lifelike, Negative Houses, Trouble in Mind, Jeremy Lemos, Acteurs, John Congleton, Kranky, Joan of Arc, Primary, Just a Mirror, Joan of Arc, Anti-Body, Total History, In Time, Another Country, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 18, 2018
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Tim Kinsella and Jenny Polus couple up in the oddball electronic duo Good Fuck

Plus: Synth master Alex Barnett plays Sleeping Village as Champagne Mirrors, and punky cock-rock crew I Love Rich show the holidays the (dis)respect they deserve.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Tim Kinsella, Joan of Arc, Jenny Polus, Jenny Pulse, Spa Moans, Good Fuck, Joyful Noise, Hungry Brain, Jimmy Whispers, Grapetooth, Alex Barnett, Champagne Mirrors, Scrapes Recordings, Countdown to Upgrade, Sleeping Village, VSCC, Beau Wanzer, Itsi, No Dreams, I Love Rich, Richmass, Liar’s Club, Spanish Flats, Pink Stink Rails, Video

Music, Music Feature Feb 21, 2018
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The world catches up to iconoclastic composer Julius Eastman

He died homeless almost three decades ago, and his work was nearly lost. But classical music finally has room for a queer black voice in the minimalist pantheon.
- By Kerry O'Brien
- Tags: Music Feature, Julius Eastman, composer, minimalist, minimalism, Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc, Femenine, black, queer, gay, Frequency Festival, Seth Parker Woods, Peter Margasak, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, S.E.M. Ensemble, Petr Kotik, SUNY Buffalo, Mary Jane Leach, Unjust Malaise, Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, Bowerbird, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Dustin Hurt, Renée Levine Packer, Clarice Jensen, Northwestern University, Peter Maxwell Davies, Eight Songs for a Mad King, John Cage, Song Books, Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music, Julius Eastman: The Zürich Concert, C. Bryan Rulon, Eightfold Path, New York Public Library, Performing Arts Research Center, Luciano Chessa, Meredith Monk, Arthur Russell, Joan of Arc, Gerry Eastman, Ithaca, Sacred Songs, The Four Books of Confucius, Buddha, One God, Our Father, Ryan Dohoney, June in Buffalo, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Carman Moore, Tania León, Curtis Institute of Music, Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, the Kitchen, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, Peter Gena, For Members Only, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2018
The best and rest of Rhinofest

The Reader critics' guide to the annual fringe festival
- By Oliver Sava, Irene Hsiao, Max Maller, Marissa Oberlander, Justin Hayford, and Dan Jakes
- Tags: Arts, Performing Arts, Theater, Rhinofest, Jenny Magnus, Beau O'Reilly, Josephine the Mouse Singer, These Violent Delights, Subjective is Beauty, Joan of Arc, King Arthur: The Fall of Camelot, The Near Future, Bad Boy World, The Disconnected

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2017
Tim Kinsella and Cap'n Jazz harnessed the raw power of their 90s selves at Riot Fest

Kinsella didn't let age slow him down during two Cap'n Jazz reunion shows at Riot Fest and Bottom Lounge.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: 90s Nostalgia, Music, Riot Fest, Cap'N Jazz, Joan of Arc, Riot Fest, Tim Kinsella, Mike Kinsella, A-Ha, Take On Me, Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 3, 2017
New trio FACS carries the darkness of Disappears to an unknown place

Plus: Lil Yachty tourmate Jayaire Woods plays a show of his own in Chicago, and DIY zine The Sick Muse publishes its sixth issue.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Disappears, Tüth, FACS, Brian Case, Noah Leger, Jonathan van Herik, Damon Carruesco, Chicago Athletic Club, Stagg Court, Magas, Joan of Arc, He’s Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands, Free the Fall, Jayaire Woods, Quality Control, Lil Yachty, Elbo Room, Mack 11, Matt Whise, Bird Bankin Boi, Emcee White, Jus Chase, The Sick Muse, zine

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2016
Copa America soccer tournament, Silent Shakespeare, and more things to do in Chicago this week

The Art of Falling returns, Exoneree Diaries author Alison Flowers, and more happenings from June 6-9
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Joan of Arc, Elastic Arts, JOA20, Silent Shakespeare, Music Box Theatre, What We Have Witnessed, Gallery 400, First Tuesdays with Mick and Ben, Hideout, Copa America, Soldier Field, Alison Flowers, Women & Children First, Home Movies Reconsidered, Comfort Station, Activate: Hear, Sullivan Center Alley, Second City, Hubbard Street, the Art of Falling, Harris Theatre

Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2016
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Early-80s techno-pop trio Scarlet Architect play their first hometown show in 33 years

Scarlet Architect wrote new material on their European reunion tour last year, and they'll debut it in Chicago on Saturday at Cobra Lounge.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: Do This, Music, Scarlet Architect, Rose Grey, Eternal Return, reunion, Doug Chamberlin, Ron Rutherford, Tim Prettyman, Genetic Music, Joan of Arc, Falls Away, Cobra Lounge, synthesizers, techno pop, synth pop, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2016
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Melina Ausikaitis celebrates the release of the collaborative Aitis Music tonight

Melina Ausikaitis's self-released tape includes recordings of her songs by nine different acts.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Melina Ausikaitis, Aitis Music, tape, self-released, Bloodiest, Tim Kinsella, Brian Case, Joan of Arc, Disappears, Angele Mullenhour, Touch by Ghoul, rock, indie rock, experimental, Empty Bottle, a cappella, Matt Jencik, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2015
Two different emo-centric DJ nights descend on Logan Square

If you've got an urge to sing along to Jimmy Eat World or Mineral, plan to head to Logan Square this month for your emo fix.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Do This, Music, Chicago Emo Night, Emo Night, Washed Up Emo, Dan Maloney, James Deia, Brent Cayson, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Raise, Rufio, Anberlin, American Football, Joan of Arc, Riot Fest

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best New Album After a 13-Year Absence

Two by Owls
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2014, 13-year absence, Owls, Tim Kinsella, Noyes, Friend/Enemy, Make Believe, Owen, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, Two album, Critics' Picks

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 18, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Anatomy of Habit signs to Relapse

Plus: A mixed-media mixer from the Chicago Film Archives and a history lesson on house at Northwestern
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Anatomy of Habit, Indian, Tortoise, Bloodyminded, Joan of Arc, shoegaze, Relapse Records, Mark Solotroff, Pieter Schoolwerth, The Limits of a Sequence, Chicago Film Archives, Hideout, Latham Zearfoss, Bastardgeist, Darling Shear, Lori Felker, Cheer-Acc, Deborah Stratman, Olivia Block, Arcade Fire, Pitchfork, Dusty Groove, WBEZ, Tony Sarabia, Northwestern's Dittmar Memorial Gallery, The Beat Goes On: The Evolution of House Music in Chicago, Frankie Knuckles, House Music in the Continuum of African American Music Forms

Music, Record Roundup Dec 16, 2013
Black Flag's not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers want you to hear Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla's house-party jams, Last False Hope's steel-toed bluegrass, and Spray Paint's paranoid noise-punk, just for starters.
- By Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Bill Meyer, David Whiteis, Monica Kendrick, Kim Kelly, and Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Record Roundup, records, albums, compilations, Argentinum Astrum, Anti-Corp, Forcefield, Inherent, Black Flag, SST, Dam-Funk, Snoopzilla, Stones Throw, Tim Kinsella, Joan of Arc, Joyful Noise, Marvin Tate, Angel Olsen, poetry, Kirk Knuffke, Steeplechase, poets, Last False Hope, Black Country Rock, Solitary, Magik Markers, Drag City, Milosh, eOne, Deadly, Mivos Quartet, Carrier, Ms. Jody, Ecko, Mutoid Man, Magic Bullet, MIE, Pelt Part Wild Gate, Robin Robertson, Alasdair Roberts, Stone Tape, S.S., Spray Paint, Burkhard Stangl, Touch, Angola, Analog Africa

Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2013
Reader’s Agenda Sat 9/14: Beethoven Festival, No Age, and the Chicago Bacon Takedown

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, September 14.
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Beethoven Festival: Love 2013, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Wilco, Glenn Kotche, No Age, Joan of Arc, Club Nutz, DJ Juiceboxxx, Chicago Bacon Takedown, bacon, Lincoln Hall

Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2013
Joan of Arc get crazy with "Helter Skelter" for their record release

Joan of Arc celebrate the release of their new LP with two half-hour long covers of a Beatles classic.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, Joan of Arc, the Beatles, Beatles, Helter Skelter, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Tim Kinsella, Bobby Burg, Theo Katsaounis, Rob Roy Campbell, guitars, experimental, cover, First Friday

Music, Music Sidebar May 30, 2013
Do-Division Street Fest: Disappears, Torche, Ariel Pink, the Gaslamp Killer, and more

This year's diverse lineup includes psychedelic pop, stoner punk, hooky metal, and anything-goes post-hip-hop.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, o-Division Street Fest, Empty Bottle Presents, Beat Kitchen, Subterranean, Disappears, Torche, Planetsexploder, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, William Elliott Whitmore, Brown Bird, Ariel Pink, Inc., Night Moves, Roberto Carlos Lange, Helado Negro, Tilly & the Wall, He's My Brother She's My Sister, Archie Powell & the Exports, Hemmingbirds, the Gaslamp Killer, Beat Connection, Indians, Joan of Arc, Jeff the Brotherhood, Bailiff, Suns, Mutts

Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2013
Anatomy of Habit debut their new lineup tomorrow night

Dirgy local act Anatomy of Habit debut their brand new all-star lineup.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Things I Love, Music, Anatomy of Habit, Ulan Bator, Will Lindsay, John McEntire, Theo Katsaounis, Greg Ratajczak, Noah Leger, Dylan Posa, Blake Edwards, Mark Solotroff, Kenny Rasmussen, Cobra Lounge, Soma, Indian, Wolves in the Throne Room, Tortoise, Joan of Arc, Plague Bringer, Disappears, metal, post-rock, dirge, heavy

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 10, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Bobby Conn re-creates his Hideout residency on Bandcamp

Plus: Eitarnora's austere party favors, Jody Duff's decadent feast, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Bobby Conn, the Hideout, Michael Zerang, KK Rampage, Mucca Pazza, Joan of Arc, Cave, Tuxedomoon, Roxy Music, Os Mutantes, Hair, Eitarnora, Tall Grasses and Black Ash, Planning for Burial, Jody Duff, Unbelievable, Rick Ross, Duff, What the Duff, the Gift, Rockie Fresh, Maybach Music Group

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2013
12 O'Clock Track: My Dad, "Cut the Mullet"

Local punk outfit My Dad takes on Wesley Willis's "Cut the Mullet"
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, My Dad, Cut the Mullet, Wesley Willis, Joan of Arc, Dave Collis

Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 2, 2012
Gossip Wolf: Doomsday arrives a month early

A new band of metal veterans debuts in November. Plus: Dead Already drops a milestone comp, and Joan of Arc taps Dmitry Samarov for album art
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Doomsday, Nachtymystium, Disorder Recordings, Mario Gonzalez, Panda Kid, Chris Brokaw, Hypocrite in a Hippy Crypt, Joan of Arc

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 12, 2012
Gossip Wolf: The many moods of Serengeti

Latest from the oddball rapper: a trio with Sufjan and Son Lux. Plus: A benefit show for Susan Stursberg of Gold Star, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Serengeti, David Cohn, Tha Grimm Teachaz, Shaq, Susan Stursberg, Joan of Arc, Del Ray, Coffin Pricks, Pitchfork, Pitchfork 2012, Chavez, Gold Star

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