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- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 6, 2021
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Tonic Room transforms itself into Golden Dagger
Plus: Eleventh Dream Day release the surprise double album Since Grazed.
- Music, Music Review Mar 1, 2021
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Chris Crack invites you to float down his river of consciousness on Might Delete Later
- Music, Music Feature Jul 1, 2020
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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.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 23, 2020
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Reunion Chicago, Slo ’Mo, and Open Television throw a three-night virtual Pride party
Plus: Brent Gutzeit of TV Pow assembles a massive compilation to benefit the fight for racial justice, and rapper Roy Kinsey teases a new single with an all-star cast of Chicago women.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 10, 2019
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Rapbrarian Roy Kinsey finds his voice in queer hip-hop
With his next album, he wants to make the music he wishes he’d heard as a young man.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 11, 2019
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Bodymilk Tapes invites a crowd of queer and trans musicians to Noise Prom II
Plus: The Chicago Humanities Festival hosts a discussion of Jim DeRogatis’s new R. Kelly book, and rapper Pete Sayke drops a guest-studded full-length album.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 20, 2018
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The best overlooked Chicago hip-hop of 2018
The city’s hip-hop scene overflows with such variety and abundance that it’s impossible to show enough love to every great release—but that’s no reason not to try.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 4, 2018
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Roots-reggae five-piece Akasha address immigration and discrimination on Mother of Exiles
Plus: Label and multimedia collective FeelTrip ask for help opening their record store, and producer Jeremiah Meece of The-Drum drops a solo EP.
- Music, Concert Preview Nov 15, 2018
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Chicago label Futurehood showcases where queer artists can take hip-hop
- Music, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
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Roy Kinsey and Tasha are dropping new albums
The rapper and singer-songwriter are set up to release two of the best records of the year.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 7, 2018
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Chicago rapper Roy Kinsey proves his storytelling is as strong as his voice on Blackie
- Music, In Rotation Apr 17, 2018
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Jared Brown of Central Air Radio on life-changing punk black women
Sasha Tycko of The Sick Muse on Bjork’s disorienting but inspiring collaborative vision, the Reader’s Leor Galil on Indiana rap storyteller Vince Ash, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2013
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Chicago-reared bear rapper Big Dipper gets nasty on Thick Life
The queer formerly local MC just dropped his first full-length mixtape, and it's quite raunchy.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 20, 2013
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Tim'm West and the masculine mystique
In his career as a hip-hop artist—and now through his work at the Center on Halsted—West has demonstrated that there's more than one way to be a black gay man.
