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Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 20, 2021
Ratboys celebrate their tenth birthday in a virtual living room at Schubas

Plus: Northwestern’s New Music Conference returns in online form, and the Hideout hosts a benefit show for Warehouse Workers for Justice.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Ratboys, Lincoln Hall, Schubas, Printer’s Devil, Ratboys Virtual Tour, Ratboy, Happy Birthday, Ratboy, Bandcamp, Northwestern University, NU, Northwestern University New Music Conference, Jennifer Walshe, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Katherine Young, Alvin Lucier, Jill Johnston, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Alyssa Pyper, Hygiene, Cradle, Taimur Sullivan, Hideout, benefit, Songs of Solidarity for Warehouse Workers, livestream, stream, Warehouse Workers for Justice, Ohmme, Kara Jackson, Tenci, Joshua Virtue, Loona Dae, Jon Langford

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 Jun 3, 2020
This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists

Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, #TheShowMustBePaused, Ahmaud Arbery, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Big Silky, Black Dahlia Murder, Black Lives Matter, Blackout Tuesday, BLM, Brandon Lopez, Breonna Taylor, Brianna Agyemang, Buscabulla, Cafe Racer, coronavirus, COVID-19, Damacy, Danzig, Dark Fog, Dave Rempis, DJ Taye, Friday, George Floyd, Gia Margaret, Jamila Thomas, Joe McPhee, Joshua Virtue, K-Rad, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Kassel Jaeger & Jim O’Rourke, Melenas, Mother Nature, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Nation of Language, No Age, Okkultokrati, Options, Paal Nilssen-Love, Pam Tillis, pandemic, Paradise Lost, protests, Retirement Party, Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin, Sonic Boom, Steve Earle & the Dukes, Sugar High, TALsounds, Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon, the Soft Pink Truth, Tomeka Reid, Umbra Vitae, Vandermark / Drake / Trovalusci / Ceccarelli, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Xibalba, Zango the Third

Music, Gossip Wolf May 19, 2020
Jazz guitarist Dave Miller drops an album of brainy feel-good grooves

Plus: The Why? Records crew releases a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund, and Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati makes his solo debut with a new EP.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Dave Miller, guitar, Tompkins Square, Whiskey Point Recording, Matt Ulery, Devin Drobka, Dan Pierson, Fellow Man, Why? Records, Art Is Love Vol. 1, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, Ruby Watson, Why Footclan, Jordanna, Nnamdï, Rich Jones, Cordoba, Glad Rags, compilation, Naked Raygun, Jeff Pezzati, The First EP, Make Me Whole (Chinese Wall Song), It’s Late

Music, Music Review May 1, 2020
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Chicago rapper Joshua Virtue irreducibly defines pandemic life on Jackie’s House
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Why? Records, Joshua Virtue, Jackie's House, rap, hip-hop, pandemic, coronavirus, COVID-19, Alex Singleton, Florida, Ruby Watson, Malci, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 10, 2020
Mute Duo release a taut, painterly album for pedal steel and drums

Plus: Young neo-classic rockers Rookie celebrate their debut, and Why? Records rapper Ruby Watson drops another solo record.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Mute Duo, Sam Wagster, Skyler Rowe, Lapse in Passage, American Dream Records, Akosuen, Billie Howard, In Flux, Constellation, Rookie, Empty Bottle, Cheap Trick, Bloodshot, Why? Records, Free Snacks, Joshua Virtue, Ruby Watson, Carry Me, Dumb Intelligence, Musa Reems, Malci, Davis, Subterranean

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 3, 2019
Video
Matt Jencik’s new guitar record blurs waking life and dreams

Plus: ESS hosts an Experimental Holiday Market at Twisted Hippo, and Free Snacks celebrate their second album in 12 months.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Matt Jencik, Implodes, Weird Times, Circuit des Yeux, Slint, Dream Character, Hands in the Dark, Experimental Sound Studio, ESS, Experimental Holiday Market, Experimental Garage Sale, Twisted Hippo, Chicago Research, Smashed Plastic, Mississippi Records, Synth City, Free Snacks, Joshua Virtue, Ruby Watson, Fast Food, Why? Records, Video

Music, Concert Preview Nov 8, 2019
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Chicago band Not Lovely have a ball twisting together jazz, rap, and prog on their debut album
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Not Lovely, Jack Clements, Alex Singleton, Wilco, EKG, Auburn Hills, Why? Records, Joshua Virtue, Matterlightblooming, jazz-rap, Hannah Fidler, Taylor Stevenson, Michael Queenan, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Jun 26, 2019
Rap that asks the right questions

The fledgling Why? Records crew—Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, and Ruby Watson—are already making some of the city’s most compelling and idiosyncratic hip-hop.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Why? Records, Free Snacks, Udababy, Davis, Davis Blackwell, Hair Trigger, Columbia College, Joshua Virtue, Alex Singleton, Ruby Watson, Sam Keefe, Malci, Malci Atkinson, Post Faith Dialogues, Milo, Hideout, DIY, Sullivan Davis, Mykele Deville, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Sooper Records, Jovan Landry, Eat Good Tape, Papaya!, Do Division Street Fest, PM, Open Mike Eagle, Will Wisniewski, Joe Olson, Hundred Heads, Dojo, Para-Medics, Sooper Swag Project, Bryan Fielder, Jack Clements, Palace of Auburn Hills, Jordan Year, Wilco, EKG, Not Lovely, Santomo, Dolan, Dirty til I Hit the Dirt, Hell Is Here, Probly, Frances Farlee, Miles Hogerty, Rich Jones, Not Normal Tapes, Ralph Rivera, Sex No Babies, Rahim Salaam, Balance, Malaya Harris, Side Action

Music, In Rotation May 2, 2019
Video
DJ King Hippo on the holy grail of Chicago spiritual jazz

Plus: Resavoir bandleader Will Miller on a fan-made mashup of Nas and MF Doom, Reader writer Leor Galil on raiding the discards pile at the library, and more
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: In Rotation, Harold Washington Library, Cambridge University Press, Popular Music, Marc Fischer, Library Excavations, Respire, Gravity & Grace, Middle-Man, Joshua Virtue, Free Snacks, Udababy, Eat Good Tape, Post Faith Dialogues, Loosey, Alejandro Ayala, King Hippo, Lumpen Radio, London, Sadiq Khan, Emma Warren, Night Czar, Make Some Space, Azymüth, Demos (1973-75), Infinite Spirit Music, Live Without Fear, Jazzman, reissue, Soji Adebayo, Will Miller, Resavoir, Whitney, Broadcast, Trish Keenan, Black Session, La Maison de la Radio, Come on Let’s Go, Nas, MF Doom, Nastradoomus, Nastradamus, Special Herbs, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 8, 2019
Rap duo Free Snacks celebrate their funky, sample-heavy debut

Plus: CabinFever’s site-specific Merce Cunningham tribute becomes an album, and experimental rock duo Comfort Food play a farewell show.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Joshua Virtue, Ruby Watson, Free Snacks, Eat Good Tape, Malci, Sex No Babies, Merce Cunningham, Museum of Contemporary Art, CabinFever, Respire, Stephan Moore, Dead Definition, Comfort Food, Jake Marshall, Daniel Wolff, Already Dead Tapes & Records, Falling Up a Down Escalator, Big Syn, A.M. Stations, Imelda Marcos, A Light Sleeper

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Ratboys celebrate their tenth birthday in a virtual living room at Schubas

Plus: Northwestern’s New Music Conference returns in online form, and the Hideout hosts a benefit show for Warehouse Workers for Justice.

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.

This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists

Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.

Jazz guitarist Dave Miller drops an album of brainy feel-good grooves

Plus: The Why? Records crew releases a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund, and Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati makes his solo debut with a new EP.

Recommended
Chicago rapper Joshua Virtue irreducibly defines pandemic life on Jackie’s House

Mute Duo release a taut, painterly album for pedal steel and drums

Plus: Young neo-classic rockers Rookie celebrate their debut, and Why? Records rapper Ruby Watson drops another solo record.

Video
Matt Jencik’s new guitar record blurs waking life and dreams

Plus: ESS hosts an Experimental Holiday Market at Twisted Hippo, and Free Snacks celebrate their second album in 12 months.

Recommended
Chicago band Not Lovely have a ball twisting together jazz, rap, and prog on their debut album

Rap that asks the right questions

The fledgling Why? Records crew—Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, and Ruby Watson—are already making some of the city’s most compelling and idiosyncratic hip-hop.

Video
DJ King Hippo on the holy grail of Chicago spiritual jazz

Plus: Resavoir bandleader Will Miller on a fan-made mashup of Nas and MF Doom, Reader writer Leor Galil on raiding the discards pile at the library, and more

Rap duo Free Snacks celebrate their funky, sample-heavy debut

Plus: CabinFever’s site-specific Merce Cunningham tribute becomes an album, and experimental rock duo Comfort Food play a farewell show.

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Plus: Northwestern’s New Music Conference returns in online form, and the Hideout hosts a benefit show for Warehouse Workers for Justice.

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

Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.

Plus: The Why? Records crew releases a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund, and Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati makes his solo debut with a new EP.

Plus: Young neo-classic rockers Rookie celebrate their debut, and Why? Records rapper Ruby Watson drops another solo record.

Plus: ESS hosts an Experimental Holiday Market at Twisted Hippo, and Free Snacks celebrate their second album in 12 months.

The fledgling Why? Records crew—Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, and Ruby Watson—are already making some of the city’s most compelling and idiosyncratic hip-hop.

Plus: Resavoir bandleader Will Miller on a fan-made mashup of Nas and MF Doom, Reader writer Leor Galil on raiding the discards pile at the library, and more

Plus: CabinFever’s site-specific Merce Cunningham tribute becomes an album, and experimental rock duo Comfort Food play a farewell show.

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