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Music, Concert Preview Dec 13, 2019
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Avreeayl Ra and Time Machine guide the way from suffering to healing at Jazz Occurrence 21
- By Audrey Henderson
- Tags: Concert Preview, Avreeayl Ra, Time Machine, Lewis Achenbach, Jazz Occurrence 21, Marvin Tate, Matt Piet, Jeff Kimnel, Sun Ra Arkestra, Healing Arts, synesthesia, art, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2018
Avenue Q at Mercury Theater and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Marvin Tate at Hungry Brain and more goings on 7/6-7/8
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Film, Incredibles 2, The Cher Show, James Hunter, the Makeup, Marvin Tate, Let the Sunshine In, Marvin Tate, Avenue Q, City Winery, Hungry Brain, Brad Bird

Music, Concert Preview Jun 29, 2018
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Chicago singer and poet Marvin Tate forms a versatile group that measures up to his compelling persona
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Concert Preview, Marvin Tate, Kitchen Songs, Recommended

Music, In Rotation Jun 13, 2018
Drummer and composer Bill Harris on a Chicago iconoclast who can make an album feel like an epic film

Current musical obsessions of drummer and composer Bill Harris, clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid, and Reader music critic Peter Margasak
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: In Rotation, Abu Obaida Hassan, Shaigiya Sound of Sudan, Sudan, tambour, Vik Sohonie, Omdurman, Daleeb, Misha Mengelberg, Pech Onderweg, Instant Composers Pool, ICP, Bvhaast, Willem Breuker, International Nothing, In Doubt We Trust, Kai Fagaschinski, Michael Thieke, Bill Harris, Ben LaMar Gay, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun, Ryley Walker, Deafman Glance, Primrose Green, ZRL, Lia Kohl, Zach Good, Ryan Packard, Angel Bat Dawid, Marvin Tate, Kitchen Sink, N Word, Black Bike Ride, Gira Dahnee, A Call to Love, Future Geechee, Culture Power45

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 17, 2017
This weekend’s No Walls benefit helps Chicagoans help the people in Trump’s crosshairs

Plus: Bobby Conn answers the inauguration with two sets at the Hideout, and the Whistler launches a free music service.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, No Walls, No Walls: A Benefit for Marginalized Chicago Communities, Beat Kitchen, Geronimno!, Kelly Johnson, Kickstand Productions, John Ugolini, iO Chicago, Jennifer Cumberworth, Troubled Hubble, the Avantist, No Men, Mother Nature, Chicago House, Thresholds, Howard Brown Health, Chicago Women’s Health Center, Bobby Conn, Superband, Inauguration Special, Monica BouBou, Hideout, Billie Howard, Devin Davis, Josh Johannpeter, Jim “Dallas” Cooper, Marvin Tate, the Whistler, the Weekly Free, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Matchess, Elliot Bergman, Wild Belle

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2014
Divergent vs. The Time Traveler's Wife: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament round one

Can a tale of true love and time travel beat out a tale of true love and dystopian alternative reality?
- By Marvin Tate
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Arts, Divergent, Time Traveler's Wife, Veronica Roth, Audrey Niffenegger, Marvin Tate, time travel

Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2014
The Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament

Between now and April, the Reader and its readers will be choosing the greatest book ever written about Chicago.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Greatest Chicago Book, Books, Things I Love, Arts, book tournament, Chicago books, greatest Chicago book, Jake Austen, Andrea Battleground, Jerome Ludwig, Wendy McClure, Bill Savage, Peggy Shinner, Marvin Tate, Lance Williams, The Jungle, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Native Son, The Warmth of Other Suns, Devil in the White City, Chicago: City on the Make, Boss, I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It, The Time Traveler's Wife, Divergent, Building Stories, Working, The Adventures of Augie March, I Sailed With Magellan, Book of My Lives, House on Mango Street

Music, Music Sidebar Apr 30, 2014
Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival 2014 (the music part)

Music headliners include Yo La Tengo, disco orchestra Escort, and Goblin soundtracking Suspiria.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Yo La Tengo, Concord Music Hall, Escort, Goblin, Dario Argento, Suspiria, Metro, Claudio Simonetti, Bloodshot Records, Logan Square Auditorium, Bloodshot Records, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, Double Door, Califone, Pat O'Neil, Water and Power, First Ward, Tim Kinsella, LeRoy Bach, Marvin Tate, Hideout, Closed Sessions, Blu & Exile, Alex Wiley, ShowYouSuck, Psalm One, Serengeti, Larry Ochs, Elastic, Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz, Tim Daisy, These New Puritans, Empty Bottle, Joyful Noise, Victor Villarreal, Owls, Cap'n Jazz

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 Mar 28, 2012
Turn dah ever-loving lights back on . . .

Marvin Tate and Dave Hilliard collaborate on a new project, The Amazing Mister Orange
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Music, Marvin Tate, Dave Hilliard, David Byrne, D-Settlement, Elastic Arts Foundation, Amazing Mister Orange

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Avreeayl Ra and Time Machine guide the way from suffering to healing at Jazz Occurrence 21

Avenue Q at Mercury Theater and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Marvin Tate at Hungry Brain and more goings on 7/6-7/8

Recommended
Chicago singer and poet Marvin Tate forms a versatile group that measures up to his compelling persona

Drummer and composer Bill Harris on a Chicago iconoclast who can make an album feel like an epic film

Current musical obsessions of drummer and composer Bill Harris, clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid, and Reader music critic Peter Margasak

This weekend’s No Walls benefit helps Chicagoans help the people in Trump’s crosshairs

Plus: Bobby Conn answers the inauguration with two sets at the Hideout, and the Whistler launches a free music service.

Divergent vs. The Time Traveler's Wife: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament round one

Can a tale of true love and time travel beat out a tale of true love and dystopian alternative reality?

The Greatest Ever Chicago Book Tournament

Between now and April, the Reader and its readers will be choosing the greatest book ever written about Chicago.

Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival 2014 (the music part)

Music headliners include Yo La Tengo, disco orchestra Escort, and Goblin soundtracking Suspiria.

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.

Turn dah ever-loving lights back on . . .

Marvin Tate and Dave Hilliard collaborate on a new project, The Amazing Mister Orange

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Marvin Tate at Hungry Brain and more goings on 7/6-7/8

Current musical obsessions of drummer and composer Bill Harris, clarinetist and composer Angel Bat Dawid, and Reader music critic Peter Margasak

Plus: Bobby Conn answers the inauguration with two sets at the Hideout, and the Whistler launches a free music service.

Can a tale of true love and time travel beat out a tale of true love and dystopian alternative reality?

Between now and April, the Reader and its readers will be choosing the greatest book ever written about Chicago.

Music headliners include Yo La Tengo, disco orchestra Escort, and Goblin soundtracking Suspiria.

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.

Marvin Tate and Dave Hilliard collaborate on a new project, The Amazing Mister Orange

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