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Music, Music Feature Jan 27, 2021
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Twenty-four points of view on the band Joan of Arc

Tim Kinsella lets everyone else tell the story of his longest-running group—entirely in keeping with their music’s embrace of illogic and reinvention.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Joan of Arc, Tim Kinsella, Melina Ausikaitis, Jeremy Boyle, Bobby Burg, Rob Roy Campbell, Matt Clark, Elliot Dicks, Tim Edwards, Graeme Gibson, Lin Hixson, Karl Hofstetter, Theo Katsaounis, Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella, Paul Koob, Todd Mattei, Casey Rice, Koji Saito, Neil Strauch, Chris Strong, Dee Taira, Ben Vida, Victor Villarreal, Sam Zurick, Tim Melina Theo Bobby, Cap’n Jazz, Joyful Noise, Owls, Make Believe, Friend/Enemy, Polyvinyl, Jade Tree, Flower Booking, Rainbo, Good Fuck, Aitis Band, A Portable Model Of, 1984, Testimonium Songs, Life Like, Oh Brother, Flowers, Boo! Human, Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain, So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness, Joan of Arc Presents: Joan of Arc, The Gap, How Memory Works, Live in Chicago, 1999, Ghosts & Vodka, Underdog Records, Erik Bocek, Video

Music, Music Review Dec 3, 2020
Recommended Video
Joan of Arc say goodbye with the touchingly esoteric Tim Melina Theo Bobby
- By David Anthony
- Tags: Music Review, Joyful Noise Recordings, Joan of Arc, Tim Melina Theo Bobby, Tim Kinsella, indie-rock, Recommended, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 11, 2020
Good Fuck are really putting out

Plus: Songwriter Devin Davis opens his new sound studio remotely, and punk weirdos End Result drop their first new music in 35 years.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Tim Kinsella, Jenny Pulse, Jen Polus, Good Fuck, 6 Specific Ambiguous Losses, Highway Galazozo Saint Christopher, Assata’s Daughters, Devin Davis, Trailhead Sound, Lonely People of the World, Unite!, End Result, Alona’s Dream, Ward, The Seven Year Locust Returns, Let Them Eat Cake

Music, Music Review Apr 10, 2020
Recommended
Tim Kinsella’s Friend/Enemy re-emerges after 18 years with koans about America’s nightmare
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, Tim Kinsella, Friend/Enemy, HIH NO/ON, Joyful Noise, 2016 presidential election, Ten Songs, Todd Mattei, He's Got the Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands, Joan of Arc, Mute Duo, Bill MacKay, Jamey Robinson, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, Sam Wagster, American Football, Nate Kinsella, Jenny Pulse, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 18, 2018
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Tim Kinsella and Jenny Polus couple up in the oddball electronic duo Good Fuck

Plus: Synth master Alex Barnett plays Sleeping Village as Champagne Mirrors, and punky cock-rock crew I Love Rich show the holidays the (dis)respect they deserve.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Tim Kinsella, Joan of Arc, Jenny Polus, Jenny Pulse, Spa Moans, Good Fuck, Joyful Noise, Hungry Brain, Jimmy Whispers, Grapetooth, Alex Barnett, Champagne Mirrors, Scrapes Recordings, Countdown to Upgrade, Sleeping Village, VSCC, Beau Wanzer, Itsi, No Dreams, I Love Rich, Richmass, Liar’s Club, Spanish Flats, Pink Stink Rails, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2018
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Singer-guitarist Haley Fohr hunts for a path forward with a colorful Hideout residency

Fohr's three freewheeling Wednesday shows feature guests such as Hamid Drake, Tim Kinsella, and Olivia Block, plus an eight-piece version of her Circuit des Yeux band.
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Do This, Music, Haley Fohr, Circuit des Yeux, Hideout, residency, Cooper Crain, Hamid Drake, Tim Kinsella, Olivia Block, Reaching for Indigo, Gaia Infinitus, Will Miller, Liz Deitemyer, Matchess, Bitchin Bajas, Moon Bros., Ben Baker Billington, Mind Over Mirrors, Jackie Lynn, Nick Ciontea, Brownshoesonly, Intentions of Sociable Creativity Through Light & Sound, Lia Kohl, Carol Genetti, Ryley Walker, Pitchfork Midwinter, Wordless Music, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2017
Tim Kinsella and Cap'n Jazz harnessed the raw power of their 90s selves at Riot Fest

Kinsella didn't let age slow him down during two Cap'n Jazz reunion shows at Riot Fest and Bottom Lounge.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: 90s Nostalgia, Music, Riot Fest, Cap'N Jazz, Joan of Arc, Riot Fest, Tim Kinsella, Mike Kinsella, A-Ha, Take On Me, Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella

Music, Music Feature Oct 26, 2016
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American Football: Accidental rock stars

This downstate band became heroes to the emo scene after breaking up in obscurity—and 17 years later, they’ve returned with a second album.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, American Football, emo, reunion, Polyvinyl, Polyvinyl Records, UIUC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Steve Lamos, Steve Holmes, Mike Kinsella, Nate Kinsella, LP2, second wave, fourth wave, reissue, Cap’n Jazz, Tim Kinsella, Braid, Birthmark, Owen, Lake Zurich, University of Colorado, Pygmalion Festival, Wheeling High School, Friction, Gauge, Danville, One Up Downstairs, Tortoise, The Sea & Cake, Steve Reich, trumpet, The Cure, Red House Painters, The One With the Tambourine, The Summer Ends, For Sure, Never Meant, Victor Villarreal, Five Silent Miles, Jorge Ledezma, Allá, Private Studios, Matt Lunsford, I’ve Been So Lost for So Long, The King of Whys, Wrecking Ball Festival, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Aug 4, 2016
Recommended
A Chicago art-book imprint debuts with The Inborn Absolute: The Art of Robert Ryan

Ben Fasman’s new venture Mandible Projects and Featherproof Books release one of the first major art books devoted to a single tattoo artist.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Lit Feature, Robert Ryan, Ben Fasman, The Inborn Absolute, tattoo art, Featherproof Books, Great State Gallery, Tim Kinsella, mandible projects, tattoos, Recommended

Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 26, 2016
Anthony Janas makes sound art by sailing a boat

Plus: Everytown for Gun Safety hosts a big punk benefit at Township, and Fiesta del Sol celebrates ten years of its house-music festival.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Radius, WIIT, 88.9 FM, Anthony Janas, Water Has Nothing to Say and Neither Do I, sailboat, Adler Planetarium, 31st Street Beach, Drop Your Weapons, Drop Yr Weapons!, Township, benefit, Everytown for Gun Safety, Tim Kinsella, Josh Caterer, Eli Caterer, Smoking Popes, Vortis, Jon Langford, Jay Ryan, David Yow, House of Sol, Fiesta del Sol, Pilsen, house music, Pilsen Neighbors Community Council, Gant-Man, DJ Heather, Soulphonetics

Arts & Culture, Art Review Jun 2, 2016
Joan of Arc? More like Joan of Art

The local band celebrates its 20th anniversary at Elastic with a visual-arts show.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Art Review, Joan of Arc band, JOA20, Tim Kinsella, Elastic Arts, Elliot Dicks, Theo Katsaounis, Melina Ausikaitis, Bobby Burg, Jeremy Boyle, Lin Hixson, Testimonium Songs

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2016
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Melina Ausikaitis celebrates the release of the collaborative Aitis Music tonight

Melina Ausikaitis's self-released tape includes recordings of her songs by nine different acts.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Music, Melina Ausikaitis, Aitis Music, tape, self-released, Bloodiest, Tim Kinsella, Brian Case, Joan of Arc, Disappears, Angele Mullenhour, Touch by Ghoul, rock, indie rock, experimental, Empty Bottle, a cappella, Matt Jencik, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 26, 2016
Detholz! and friends throw a Groundhog Day party in memory of bassist Ben Miranda

Plus: Caribbean dance night Feel the Rhythm makes its overdue return, postpunks Ganser gear up for a big year, and more.
- By Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Ben Miranda, Detholz!, Groundhog Day, Ami Saraiya, Josh Berman, tribute, E.N.G., Sonido Tritón, Bryan “Selektah” Martin, Feel the Rhythm, reggae, postpunk, Ganser, Audrey, J.R. Nelson, Tim Kinsella, Chicago Athletic Association, Storytelling

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 9, 2015
Tim Kinsella publishes a harrowing Make Believe tour diary

Plus: Illustrator and guitar mangler Keith Herzik goes lo-fi in Wet Wallet, and emo kids Forfeit rev up for a new release.
- By Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Tim Kinsella, All Over and Over, Make Believe band, Sam Zurick, Featherproof Books, Keith Herzik, Gina Herzik, Wet Wallet, Forfeit band

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 22, 2014
Our favorite books of 2014

A look back at the year in words, from the best reads by Chicago authors to new bookstores and live-lit events
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Old Neighborhood, Bill Hillmann, Let Go and Go On and On, Tim Kinsella, Losing Gainesville, Brian Costello, Once I Was CoolMegan Stielstra, Where To: A Hack Memoir, Dmitry Samarov, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, David MacLean, Lena Dunham, Women & Children First, Seminary Co-op, 57th Street Books, Roscoe Village, Roscoe Books, Independent Bookstore Day, ioneer Girl, Cristina Henríquez, Bich Minh Nguyen, Memory Palaces, Not That Kind of GirlJoel Greenberg, A Feathered River Across the Sky, Outsider Baseball, Renegade Dreams, Anna Blessing, Rick Perlstein, Invisisble Bridge, Roxanne Gay, You Feel So Mortal, Peggy Shinner, Eula Biss, On Immunity, Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern, Ecstatic Cahoots, Bad Feminist, Jac Jemc, A Different Bed Every Time, Bedrock Faith, The Hundred Year House, Eric May, Rebecca Makai, An Untamed Stat, Monte Beauchamp, Hillary Chute, The Carnival at Bray, Jessie Ann Foley, Curbisde Splendor, Year in Review 2014

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Oct 14, 2014
Lit and rock merge at Curbside Splendor's Words + Music

The indie imprint celebrates the release of new books—and its first cassingle—at the Empty Bottle.
- By Megan Thielking
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Words + Music #6, Empty Bottle, Curbside Splendor, Victor David Giron, U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign, Tim Kinsella, Brian Costello, Kill Manual, Susan Lanier, The Game We Play, James Tadd Adcox, Does Not Love, Western Illinois University, Erika T. Wurth, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend, Cassandra Troyan, Joe Meno, Office Girl, Jim Ruland, Forest of Fortune, Fashion Brigade, the Peekaboos, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Elia Einhorn

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 24, 2014
Gossip Wolf: A fund-raiser for the legacy of WHPK soul DJ Bob Abrahamian

Plus: Primo Mendoza gets groovy, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Bob Abrahamian, Sitting in the Park, Hyde Park, Promontory, Windy City Soul Club, Reggie Torian, the Impressions, the Enchanters, Cliff Curry, the Notations, Doug Shorts, Master Plan, Primo Mendoza, Desert Soap, Hungry Brain, Roscoe Village, Music & Love, McRib, iPod Classic, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Mount Eerie, Tim Kinsella, Tmthy Trtl, Chris Crack, Kickin It With TW

Blogs, Bleader Jul 21, 2014
Video
Follow Perfect Pussy as they shop in Pitchfork's Book Fort

Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves professes her Tim Kinsella fandom at Pitchfork's Book Fort.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Pitchfork Day Three, Books, Arts, Music, Pitchfork Music Festival 2014, J.R. Nelson, Perfect Pussy, Meredith Graves, Ray McAndrew, Tim Kinsella, Catharine McKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, The Minus Times, Praying Drunk, Kyle Minor, I Have Blinded Myself Writing This, Jess Stoner, Video

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best New Album After a 13-Year Absence

Two by Owls
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2014, 13-year absence, Owls, Tim Kinsella, Noyes, Friend/Enemy, Make Believe, Owen, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, Two album, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 6/6: International Photobooth Convention, Ribfest, and a Tribute to Beyonce, America's Greatest Montessorian

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, June 6
- By Osita Nwanevu
- Tags: Do This, Arts, International Photobooth Convention, A&A Studios, Ribfest, Major League Eating, Terriers, The Addies, Beyonce, Drummond Montessori, Empty Bottle, A Tribute to Beyonce America's Greatest Montessorian, Bobby Conn, Tim Kinsella, Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Matthew Hale Clark

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 5/16: Manifest Urban Arts Festival, The Inspector and the Prince, and Owls

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 16
- By Osita Nwanevu
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Hood Internet, Youngblood Hawke, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Film Studies Center, The Inspector and the Prince, Zheng Dasheng, Paola Iovene, opera, Owls, Cap'n Jazz, Mike Kinsella, Tim Kinsella, Victor Villareal, Sam Zurick, TWO, Subterranean

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

Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2014
It's a big month for Chicago microcinemas

Previewing upcoming film-related events at Noble Square's Nightingale and at the Chicago Home Theater Festival
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Arts, Neighborhoods, Film, Chicago Home Theater Festival, Nightingale Cinema, Lori Felker, Scott Stark, Tim Kinsella, Felicia Mings, Jason Ogawa, microcinema, Michael Paul Lopez, Persistence of Motion

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 15, 2014
Chicago authors
share their secrets

Jeffrey Renard Allen, Tim Kinsella, and other writers with spring books coming out discuss combating writer's block and more.
- Tags: Lit Feature, Chicago authors, books, secrets, Scott Simkus, Chicago Review Press, baseball, Chicago Cubs, history, professional baseball, Major League Baseball, Negro leagues, Chicago City League, Logan Squares, Bloomer League, House of David, accidents, Tim Kinsella, Curbside Splendor, musicians, novelists, James Klise, Algonquin Young Readers, librarians, schools, Henry Darger, Peoria, Jeffrey Renard Allen, Graywolf Press, UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, Tom Wiggins, writer's block, reading, writing

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 4/10: Words + Music, Everything Is Terrible!, and Juana Molina

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 10
- By Lisa Schulz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Words + Music, Megan Stielstra, Tim Kinsella, Curbside Splendor, Let Go and Go On and On, Once I Was Cool, Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, Tony Fitzpatrick, Walking Bicycles, More Gorgeous, Empty Bottle, Everything Is Terrible, Doggie Woggiez, Poochie Woochiez, Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, Gene Siskel Film Center, Juana Molina, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall

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