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- Music, The Listener Feb 22, 2021
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Dale Jenkins’s private-press postpunk finally gets a proper reissue
Chicago-based label Got Kinda Lost coreleased an expanded version of this 1985 oddity last week.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 10, 2019
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Remember resale shops this Record Store Day
Thrift and vintage stores are among the best places to find vinyl that nobody’s even thought of reissuing yet.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2018
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From the archive: The Chicago preacher and gospel musician who ran a pyramid scheme
Pastor T.L. Barrett is beloved by music fanatics and rappers eager to sample throwback gospel; he also defrauded thousands, as the Reader reported in 1989.
- Music, In Rotation Dec 13, 2016
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Comedian Nicholas Rouley on Birdcloud’s shit-kickin’ straight talk
Plus: Stand-up comic Stephanie Hasz on self-help for people who need to party, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on Gucci and Future’s outer-space trap, and more
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jul 5, 2016
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2016
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Light in the Attic reissues a rare record from Charles Bullen's post-This Heat project Lifetones
For a Reason, the sole album by Lifetones, embeds glassy, brilliant guitar in dub-reggae grooves.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2014
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Rare soul-disco from late-70s Seattle, courtesy of Light in the Attic Records
Don Brown's "Don't Lose Your Love," off of Wheedle's Groove—Seattle Funk, Modern Soul & Boogie: Volume II 1972-1987
- Music, Record Roundup Mar 10, 2014
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Kylie Minogue's cheerfully lascivious Kiss Me Once and 15 more record reviews
Eleven Reader writers tackle a dizzying variety of new music, including Pharrell's expertly vacuous Ikea pop, Morbus Chron's feral-to-cerebral death prog, and Issue's blissed-out, goofy hip-hop about tea.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 27, 2013
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John Lydon's Public Image Ltd. still great and annoying
A reissue of the 1978 debut album by Public Image Ltd. shows off its highs and lows in stark relief.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 25, 2013
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Getting back to Marcos Valle
This Brazilian singer-songwriter’s best records came out more than 40 years ago and just got their first U.S. release.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2009
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The four lives of Rodriguez
Big in South Africa: an unexpected fan base propels a third rediscovery of psychedelic Detroit folk-rocker Rodriguez.
