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- Music, Music Review Mar 25, 2021
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Guitarist Hedvig Mollestad laces together jazz and metal with a sense of play
- Music, Music Review Jan 28, 2021
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Wardruna’s runes ain’t made for Nazis
- Music, Music Review Sep 3, 2020
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Norwegian shapeshifters Ulver remain as literary, elusive, and dark as ever on Flowers of Evil
- Music, Music Review May 22, 2020
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Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis releases a second record with his all-star quintet
- Music, Music Review May 15, 2020
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Okkultokrati alchemize grimy punk and metal into a dark triumph on La Ilden Lyse
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 3, 2019
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Norwegian math-dance duo Aiming for Enrike bring their booty-moving beats to the States
- Music, Concert Preview Aug 2, 2019
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Jakob Ogawa makes bubbly bedroom pop
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 14, 2017
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Bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten gives a rare solo acoustic performance Monday
Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten stays busy in collaborations on both sides of the Atlantic, but he plays alone on this visit to Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2016
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There will be puppies at Blair Braverman's readings next week
You can also read about her adventures in the arctic in her book Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
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Knockout trumpeter Thomas Johansson comes to town with one of the best working groups in jazz
Norway's Thomas Johansson, who just released his first album as a leader, plays Sunday at the Hungry Brain with the quartet Cortex.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
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Cortex, Norway's great new jazz group, returns to Chicago
The quartet plays Constellation on Wednesday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2015
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Aggressive sax-drum duos Dead Neanderthals and Burning Tree play Elastic
Spill-off from the Utech Records Fest in Milwaukee benefits Chicago Sunday evening
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2015
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Norwegian black-metal veterans Khold understand your feelings about winter
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Til Endes," a chunk of icy groove from the band's sixth full-length.
- Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: 'The Jist of Being in Between Jobs,' mind-melting Norwegian improv
The Jist, an improvising duo from Oslo, hit hard on their eponymous debut album.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "I Won't Forget" by Shining, who play Reggie's tonight
Jorgen Munkeby and his Norwegian "blackjazz" crew hit Reggie's tonight on a rare North American tour.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2013
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The second album from Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad brings jazz sophistication to hard rock crunch
Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad's jazzy hard rock (or hard rocking jazz)
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "Sounds of His Motor," trancey blues-pop from the Norwegian duo Stein Urheim and Mari Kvien Brunvoll
The hypnotic, warped pop-blues of Norwegian duo Stein Urheim and Mari Kvien Brunvoll
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 2, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Hanne Hukkelberg, "My Devils"
"My Devils" from the maddening, ingratiating new album by Hanne Hukkelberg
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2012
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The fascinating bricolage of Norway's Alog
Norwegian duo Alog tops itself with the experimental collages on its new album.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 7, 2012
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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Tuba Atlantic
The year's contenders open for a theatrical run at Landmark's Century Centre.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Dec 15, 2011
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Key Ingredient: gjetost
Lula Cafe's Jason Hammel tempers the sweetness of the whey cheese "with some farm funk thrown in"
- Music, Music Feature Sep 29, 2011
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Norwegian weird
Nils Okland and Sigbjorn Apeland record a quietly odd, genre-bending tribute to eccentric 19th-century violinist and composer Ole Bull
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2011
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Norwegian reedist Frode Gjerstad returns to Chicago tonight
The veteran Norwegian free jazz reedist Frode Gjerstad carries on his long-term relationship with drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, playing the Hideout tonight with a new trio line-up.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2011
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Dead Snow
Nazi zombies terrorize snowmobiling Norse medical students in "Dead Snow," screening Tuesday 8/30 as the final installment in the Logan Square International Film Series's August "Summer Camp" program.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2011
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Fresh-faced pop from Razika
The debut album by all-female Norwegian indie-pop quartet Razika sparkles with youthfulness.