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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Mar 17, 2021
Chicago indie musicians rally for jail support with the Warm Violet compilation

Warm Violet has raised more than $10,000 so far, mostly from Chicagoans, which speaks to grassroots support for its cause and for local music.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Chicago Community Jail Support, Warm Violet: A Compilation for Chicago Community Jail Support, Black Lives Matter, direct action, Ariel Zetina, Ohmme, Nnamdï, Ken Vandermark, Best of Chicago 2020

Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 9, 2021
Video
New talent buyer Zoey Victoria stirs up Tonic Room

Plus: Rapper CantBuyDeem drops a video for “Benny the Butcher Owes Me $500,” and the Hideout hosts a livestream to benefit Chicago Community Jail Support.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Zoey Victoria, Cold Beaches, Morinda, Femifest Music and Art Festival, Union of Musicians and Allied Workers, UMAW, DIY CHI Mutual Aid Fund, Harmonica Dunn, Donnie Biggins, Tonic Room, CantBuyDeem, Benny the Butcher, Benny the Butcher Owes Me $500, Da Block 365, Griselda, Warm Violet, Chicago Community Jail Support, mutual aid, Clare Austen-Smith, Ohmme, Nnamdï, Bone Reader, A Very Special Valentine’s Day, Video

Music, Music Feature Feb 3, 2021
Bandcamp Friday returns for 2021

You can jump-start your browsing with nearly 100 newly Reader-recommended releases.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Bandcamp, Bandcamp Day, 7Cicadae, Battle Hag, Cam Be, Beautifulish, Blind Adam & the Federal League, Boris with Merzbow, Patricia Brennan, Buggin, Casper McFadden, Cinchel, Cinco de Gatos, Cookie, Crazy Doberman, Tim Daisy, Tim Daisy & Ikue Mori, DJ Corey, DJ Earl, Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Steve Earle & the Dukes, Electric Hydra, 엔도 Endo, Josephine Foster, Freddie Old Soul, Good Willsmith, Grayceon, Jason Hawk Harris, Harvey Waters, Hospital Bracelet, Hushdrops, Kara Jackson, Jesu, Joan of Arc, Mia Joy, Jungheim, Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi, Katatonia, The Keener Family, Daniel Knox, Live Skull, Local Nobodies, Marv & Rindy Ross / Quarterflash, Megalophobe, The Miyumi Project, Moğollar, Sen Morimoto, Jon Mueller, Matt Muse, Nnamdï, Neptunian Maximalism, New Goo, Old Growth, Orwell, Owls, Matt Piet, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan, The Primeridian & Rashid Hadee, Professor Downfall, Reality Anonymous, Rempis / Piet / Daisy, Running, Säge, the 64th Wonder, Shame, Snooze, Sonny Falls, Sour, Understudy, Angry Peasants: Volume 10, Art Is Love, Vol. 1, For a Life of Sin: Insurgent Chicago Country, Situationchicago, Warm Violet: A Compilation for Chicago Community Jail Support, Viagra Boys, White Suns, Yagalith, Mars Williams

Music, Music Feature Dec 21, 2020
Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020

With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.
- By Jack Riedy
- Tags: Music Feature, Year in Review 2020, mutual aid, activism, fundraising, COVID-19, pandemic, Black Lives Matter, Matt Muse, People’s Grab-N-Go, Femdot, Delacreme Scholars, Femi Adigun, the Scholars Slide By, Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive, Feed the West Side, John Walt Foundation, Nachelle Pugh, Pivot Gang, Frsh Waters, Qurissy Lopez, Bandcamp Friday, Nnamdï Ogbonnaya, Nnamdï, Brat, Krazy Karl, Black Plight, Assata’s Daughters, EAT Chicago, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Illinois Prison Project, Brave Space Alliance, Macie Stewart, Sima Cunningham, Ohmme, KC Tenants, Chicago Community Jail Support, Montessori School of Englewood, Kooyrigs, Warm Violet, Avery Springer, Art Is Love Vol. 1, Why? Records, Ruby Watson, Sen Morimoto, Tasha, Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project, CIVLization, CIVL SAVE Emergency Relief Fund, Situationchicago, Experimental Sound Studio, Quarantine Concerts

Music, Music Review Oct 24, 2020
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Chicago art-pop wonder Sen Morimoto captures the magic of his community
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Sen Morimoto, Audiotree, Sooper Records, Chicago DCASE, Lori Lightfoot, Millennium Park, Joseph Chilliams, Kaina, Nnamdï, Lala Lala, Lillie West, Qari, Kara Jackson, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Aug 5, 2020
The Reader has 56 places to start your shopping this Bandcamp day

Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, #SaveOurStages, Another Sunny Day, Attack of the Chicago Boogie, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Black Plight, Bloodmist Boris, Bob Nanna, Bruges, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Chris Crack, Cinder Well, Cold Beaches, COVID-19, Cutta, Daniel Ek, Dehd, Evicshen, Fat Night, Ghetto Kumbé, Gosh Diggity, He Who Walks Three Ways, HHY & the Macumbas, James Swanberg, Jovan Landry, Julianna Barwick, Lawrence Arms, Le Tour, Lillerne #122, Margo Price, Mexican Werewolf, Myquale, Nest Egg, Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris, Nnamdï, Ocean Cult, Old Man Gloom, Oscillator Bug, Paisley Fields, pandemic, Park Hye Jin, Park National, Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Protagonists, Protomartyr, Pyrrhon, Quicksails, Quiet Eye, revenue share, Robert Millis, Sault, Scott McGaughey, Silicone Prairie, SituationChicago, Spectacular Diagnostics, Spotify, Surgery Boys, Thiago Nassif, touring, Vile Creature, Vince Ash, Warm Human, Warrior Tribes, Xoe Wise, Zombi

Music, Music Review Jul 20, 2020
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Chicago music mastermind Nnamdï reflects our absurd world with the gorgeously strange Krazy Karl
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Nnamdï, Krazy Karl, COVID-19, restaurant workers, Alinea, coronavirus, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Brat, Sooper Records, George Floyd, Assata's Daughters, EAT Chicago, Looney Tunes, Carl W. Stalling, math rock, jazz, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Jul 1, 2020
Another chance for a Bandcamp binge to help musicians

Even as Illinois reopens, artists and labels remain cut off from major sources of income—so Bandcamp is again waiving its cut of sales.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Blu & Exile, Bonjintan, Civic Center, COVID-19, Daniel Knox, Drab City, El Shirota, Eye of Nix, F.A.B.L.E., Heathen Beast, Hobbyist, Holy Hive, Icepick, Ingrid Laubrock & Kris Davis, J Wade, Jason Wilber, Khruangbin, Longshot, Midnight Dice, Muzz, Nnamdï, Ohmme, Owen, pandemic, Quin Kirchner, revenue, Roy Kinsey, Scott Free, Sweet Whirl, Tenci, Tengger, Thomas DaVinci, touring, Varsity, Vincas, waive, Wire, Wyatt Waddell, Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 9, 2020
Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives

Plus: Femdot’s nonprofit begins free food deliveries on the south and west sides, and Nnamdï gives away more than $10,000 in “Bandcamp day” revenue.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Wyatt Waddell, Fight!, George Floyd, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Femdot, Delacreme Scholars, food distribution, Nnamdï, Black Plight, Bandcamp, Rage, Assata’s Daughters, EAT Chicago

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 Feature Apr 14, 2020
Nnamdï grows up on Brat

The prolific musical polymath uses his new solo album to teach himself something about work-life balance.
- By Tim Crisp
- Tags: Music Feature, Nnamdï, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Alfred Ogbonnaya, Brat, Drool, Sooper Swag Project, Sen Morimoto, Glenn Curran, Sooper Records, Kaina, Pitchfork, Swerp, Swerp Mansion, DIY, punk, math rock, hip-hop, Father/Daughter Records, Longface, Man Without a Head, Feckin Weirdo, Sit Tight, Para-Medics, Lansing, Monobody, Mother Evergreen, Lala Lala, Flowers to My Demons, Dylan Piskula, Lansing, Dastard, Erfert, Like Bats, Tommy Borst, Nnamdi’s Pancake Haus, Easter, Ratboys, Julia Steiner, Luscious Duncan, JD, ThrashKitten, Nnamdi’s Sooper Dooper Secret Side Project, Drop It in Some Water, Nervous Passenger, Teen Cult, Ittō, My Dad, Bootie Noir, Ice Cream, Art School Crush, Despondent, It’s OK, Wrong Numbers, Miranda Winters, Perfect in My Mind, Glass Casket, Salut

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Chicago indie musicians rally for jail support with the Warm Violet compilation

Warm Violet has raised more than $10,000 so far, mostly from Chicagoans, which speaks to grassroots support for its cause and for local music.

Video
New talent buyer Zoey Victoria stirs up Tonic Room

Plus: Rapper CantBuyDeem drops a video for “Benny the Butcher Owes Me $500,” and the Hideout hosts a livestream to benefit Chicago Community Jail Support.

Bandcamp Friday returns for 2021

You can jump-start your browsing with nearly 100 newly Reader-recommended releases.

Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020

With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.

Recommended
Chicago art-pop wonder Sen Morimoto captures the magic of his community

The Reader has 56 places to start your shopping this Bandcamp day

Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels

Recommended
Chicago music mastermind Nnamdï reflects our absurd world with the gorgeously strange Krazy Karl

Another chance for a Bandcamp binge to help musicians

Even as Illinois reopens, artists and labels remain cut off from major sources of income—so Bandcamp is again waiving its cut of sales.

Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives

Plus: Femdot’s nonprofit begins free food deliveries on the south and west sides, and Nnamdï gives away more than $10,000 in “Bandcamp day” revenue.

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.

Nnamdï grows up on Brat

The prolific musical polymath uses his new solo album to teach himself something about work-life balance.

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Warm Violet has raised more than $10,000 so far, mostly from Chicagoans, which speaks to grassroots support for its cause and for local music.

Plus: Rapper CantBuyDeem drops a video for “Benny the Butcher Owes Me $500,” and the Hideout hosts a livestream to benefit Chicago Community Jail Support.

You can jump-start your browsing with nearly 100 newly Reader-recommended releases.

With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.

Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels

Even as Illinois reopens, artists and labels remain cut off from major sources of income—so Bandcamp is again waiving its cut of sales.

Plus: Femdot’s nonprofit begins free food deliveries on the south and west sides, and Nnamdï gives away more than $10,000 in “Bandcamp day” revenue.

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.

The prolific musical polymath uses his new solo album to teach himself something about work-life balance.

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