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Music Review
Sep 10, 2020
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Frank Leone’s hip-hop experiments make for a beautifully bizarre debut album
By Leor Galil
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Music Review
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Frank Leone
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Don't
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hip-hop
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Monticello
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Champaign
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Piatt County
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Vic Mensa
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Lupe Fiasco
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Chicago Waves
By Leor Galil
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Chicago Waves
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International Anthem
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Los Angeles
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California
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Build an Ark
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With Voices
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Living Room
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Life Force Trio
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Mexico
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Jul 3, 2020
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Julianna Barwick builds a paradise of her own design with
Healing Is a Miracle
By Shannon Nico Shreibak
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Julianna Barwick
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Healing is a Miracle
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Ninja Tune
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Los Angeles
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Louisiana
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Mary Lattimore
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Music Review
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Miles: From an Interlude Called Life
By Dave Cantor
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Blu
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Exile
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Blu & Exile
,
Miles: From an Interlude Called Life
,
Los Angeles
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rap
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rapper
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Below the Heavens
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Warner Brothers
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Dirty Science Records
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New World Color
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May 29, 2020
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is the most fleshed-out and lush No Age release yet
By Luca Cimarusti
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No Age
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Goons be Gone
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Drag City
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Los Angeles
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California
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May 8, 2020
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith creates a mosaic of electricity on
The Mosaic of Transformation
By Dave Cantor
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Ghostly International
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
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Los Angeles
,
synthesists
,
Tides: Music for Meditation and Yoga
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The Kid
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By Luca Cimarusti
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Danzig
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Misfits
,
Danzig Sings Elvis
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis
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Cleopatra Records
,
kitty litter
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OK boomer
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May 1, 2020
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By Madeline Happold
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Kris Esfandiari
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Texas
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Laredo
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Austin
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Pancho Villa at a Safe Distance
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Envy
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Blue: The Color of Noise
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St. Martin's Press
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Neon Future IV
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Los Angeles
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Mar 4, 2020
Capital of the midwest
Is Chicago an island of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpensive, stultifying friendliness?
By Pete Saunders
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Feb 28, 2020
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Suite for Max Brown
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The New Breed
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Suite for Max Brown
,
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Rodan
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Feb 7, 2020
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Kin
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Asa Taccone
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Danger Mouse
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Matthew Compton
,
Matthew "Cornbread" Compton
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Los Angeles
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Jorma Taccone
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Lonely Island
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Incredibad
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Kin
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Green Jellÿ
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Green Jello
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Three Little Pigs
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Triple Live Möther Gööse at Budokan
,
Cereal Killer
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Cereal Killer Soundtrack
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Pauly Shore
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Maynard James Keenan
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Los Angeles
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Bill Manspeaker
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Silence of the Sponge
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Nov 29, 2019
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As they head toward 50 years together, East LA icons Los Lobos continue to transform
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East LA
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Los Angeles
,
Chicano rock
,
La Bamba
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La Pistola y el Corazon
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David Hidalgo
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Llego Navidad
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ranchera
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Nov 15, 2019
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Las Cafeteras don’t believe in borders, musical or otherwise
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Eastside Cafe
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Los Angeles
,
son jarocho
,
La Bamba Rebelde
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Sonorama
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Lincoln Hall
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Music
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Sep 26, 2019
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By Bill Meyer
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Sarah Davachi
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Ambient Church
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Kranky
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Calgary
,
Los Angeles
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Gave in Rest
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La Brume Jaune
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Pale Bloom
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Ba Da Bing
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W. 25th
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Matthew Oliphant
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Liz Deitemyer
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Sep 12, 2019
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By Scott Morrow
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Man Man
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Ryan Kattner
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Honus Honus
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Philadelphia
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Los Angeles
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On Oni Pond
,
Christopher Powell
,
Pow Pow
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Mar 9, 2018
Five must-see films about film
Five extraordinary films about film, by five extraordinary filmmakers.
By Patrick Friel
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Foreign
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History
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LGBT
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On Video
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Academy Awards
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Agnès Varda
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Oscars
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Dorothy Malone
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André S. Labarthe
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Cinéastes de notre temps Cinéma
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de notre temps
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Criterion
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Colin Campbell
,
Colleen Moore
,
Little Orphant Annie
,
Music Box Theatre
,
Chicago Film Society
,
Lois Weber
,
Scandal Mongers
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Sensation Seekers
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Film Studies Center
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Logan Center for the Arts
,
J.R. Jones
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
European Union Film Festival
,
Hitler's Hollywood
,
Filming "Othello"
,
Orson Welles
,
Othello
,
Shakespeare
,
Micheal MacLiammoir
,
Iago
,
Hilton Edwards
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
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Mark Rappaport
,
The Scenic Route
,
Eric Farr
,
Histoire(s) du cinema
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Gaumont
,
James Joyce
,
Finnegans Wake
,
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
,
Andrei Tarkovsky
,
Chris Marker
,
Boris Godunov
,
The Last Bolshevik
,
Alexander Medvedkin
,
Los Angeles Plays Itself
,
Thom Andersen
,
Eadweard Muybridge
,
Zoopraxographer
,
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Bleader
Jan 18, 2018
Anita Alvarez’s campaign consultants gave her talking points before she announced charges against Jason Van Dyke, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago is one of Amazon's 20 finalists for its second North American headquarters.
By Kate Shepherd
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Did You Read __________?
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Chicago
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Illinois
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Anita Alvarez
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Jason Van Dyke
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Laquan McDonald
,
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Barack Obama
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Worst of Chicago
Dec 21, 2017
Stop complaining about Chicago’s weather
We get to experience the entire meteorological buffet—without the gristle of natural disasters.
By Edward McClelland
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,
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,
Worst of Chicago
,
Tom Skilling
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New Orleans
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Los Angeles
,
Houston
,
Great Lakes
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,
Steve Martin
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Dallas
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Washington, D.C.
,
Ellsworth Huntington
,
Civilization and Climate
News & Politics
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Worst of Chicago
Dec 20, 2017
Chicago’s Second City inferiority complex has mutated into a nasty superiority complex
Due to the city's also-ran self-image, no perceived slight can go unanswered.
By Ian Belknap
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Worst of Chicago
,
Second City complex
,
Worst of Chicago
,
A.J. Liebling
,
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,
Rahm Emanuel
,
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,
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Bleader
Nov 14, 2017
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Laura Callier of Gel Set makes a return visit from LA to support the new
Body Copy
On Gel Set's
Body Copy
, Laura Callier tackles loneliness and alienation with her usual wit and sophistication—and lots of goofy puns.
By Brian Costello
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,
Music
,
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Body Copy
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Laura Callier
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Don't You Miss Me?
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Oct 17, 2017
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Chicago named the rat capital of the country for the third consecutive year, and other news
Also, Harvey Weinstein's unlikely 1985 Bears connection.
By Kate Shepherd
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Chicago
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Illinois
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Orkin
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