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- Music, Music Review Oct 26, 2020
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Decades of friendship enrich a new collaboration by rapper Rich Jones and producer Montana Macks
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 4, 2020
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Rapper-producer Montana Macks drops a collection of soulful instrumentals
Plus: Anni Rossi puts out a playful video mixtape, and arts nonprofit Quiet Pterodactyl releases an all-star compilation to benefit Chicago music venues.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 19, 2020
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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.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 14, 2020
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Musa Reems and David Ashley bolster the lineup for one of the winter’s best Chicago rap shows
- Music, Concert Preview Jan 3, 2020
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Chicago’s Bad Ambassadors use hip-hop as the glue for their genre-jumping debut
- Music, Music Feature Sep 11, 2019
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Photos: AMFM fights food deserts with the Feast festival
The arts and culture organization brought food, art, and music to Homan Square Park to call attention to food insecurity on the west and south sides.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 26, 2019
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Rap that asks the right questions
The fledgling Why? Records crew—Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, and Ruby Watson—are already making some of the city’s most compelling and idiosyncratic hip-hop.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 23, 2019
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Operation Hennessy digs a new channel for Chicago hip-hop
Keen-eyed rapper Qari hooks up with producer Green Sllime and opens the floodgates on his reservoir of irreverent old-school beats.
- Music, Concert Preview Apr 18, 2019
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Chicago hip-hop series All Smiles signs off with a generation-spanning blowout
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 9, 2019
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Chicago pop insurgents White Ppl play a fund-raiser for Hoist Fest
Plus: The former Mama jammers in Bandy celebrate a new tape, and DJ and soul historian Duane Powell shines a light on songwriter Eugene McDaniels.
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 25, 2018
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Chicago rapper-singer Rich Jones gets better with age on The Shoulder You Lean On
- Music, Music Feature Oct 24, 2018
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The Reader’s guaranteed unboring homegrown Halloween mix
Nothing against “Monster Mash,” but Chicago has spawned lots of scary songs that sound good all year—these 13 tracks cover house, psych rock, techno, boogie, hip-hop, extreme metal, pop punk, and more.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 3, 2018
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Sen Morimoto makes crowded songs all by himself
The Chicago polymath’s mix of hip-hop, pop, prog, and jazz has won over international entertainment platform 88 Rising, but for now he’s sticking with his friends at local indie Sooper Records.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 25, 2018
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Thirty years is a long time to live with a Thrill Kill Kult
Plus: White Mystery keep on celebrating their first decade, the All Smiles hip-hop showcase reaches its sixth birthday, and more.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 21, 2018
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Busy drummer Ben Billington releases music from two of his bazillion bands
Plus: Black digital media platform the TRiiBE crowdfunds new projects, and Pivot Gang cofounder Frsh Waters headlines this month’s All Smiles.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 25, 2017
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Rapper Rich Jones gives a verse to the Chicago Mothman
The cryptid of the summer speaks for itself on Jones’s Halloween-season single.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 18, 2017
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Garage-rock label Randy Records drops debut LPs by Skip Church and Today’s Hits
Plus: Dumpster Tapes celebrates its third Monster Compilation at Cole’s, and Bottom Lounge and Lincoln Hall host fund-raising mini festivals.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 20, 2017
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Ty Segall hangs his first art show, ‘Assterpiece Theatre,’ in Chicago
Plus: Hip-hop showcase All Smiles puts together a top-shelf March lineup, and Drunk [Redacted] Talks features half the Gossip Wolf team.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 2, 2016
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Why little rappers still believe in big radio
The Internet has eroded commercial radio’s usefulness for music discovery, but DJs like Nehpets at Power 92 have stayed connected enough to their communities to break up-and-coming local artists on the air.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 29, 2016
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Producer and DJ Fess Grandiose on the local beat scene he loves and the hip-hop boom in Logan Square
Beat maker Fess Grandiose talks about the Logan Square scene and his new self-titled instrumental debut for Chicago's ETC Records.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2016
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A tag team of underground Chicago rappers has fun with Logan Square's Discount Megamall
Local MCs Rich Jones, Morimoto, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, and JD make a backdrop of the Megamall's graffiti-covered walls in the video for the new track "They Don't Wanna Know."
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 27, 2016
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Chicago rapper Rich Jones on the fourth anniversary of his hip-hop showcase, All Smiles
Rich Jones launched the monthly hip-hop series All Smiles at Tonic Room in April 2012, and it's since grown into a Lincoln Park oasis for the local scene.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 10, 2016
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Abraham Levitan of Shame That Tune returns with the podcast Nerds on Tour
Plus: Composer David Reminick of Paper Mice holds his PhD recital, and rapper Rich Jones celebrates the new mixtape Pink Slips.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2015
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The year in music: 2015
Seven Reader writers drill down into rap, jazz, punk, metal, and more—instead of just rearranging the same records on everyone else’s best-of list.
- Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2015
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Track premiere: Local rapper Rich Jones has that old-school 'W.o.W.'
The Second City Citizens member teams up with Hurt Everybody's Supa Bwe on this smoky old school track.