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- Arts & Culture, Feature Nov 13, 2018
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Brandon Lamar Rials is elevating jeans, one personalized pair at a time
The Pilsen-based designer crafts uniquely distressed pants.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 28, 2018
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Towkio is officially Chicago’s highest rapper
The Save Money MC’s balloon trip to the stratosphere wasn’t just to promote his first album for Rick Rubin—it’s also about inspiration, perspective, and togetherness.
- Music, The Block Beat Feb 14, 2018
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Vic Mensa revisits his vanishing Hyde Park
The rising rapper considers his teenage stomping grounds home, even though gentrification has killed his favorite hangouts.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
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The year Chicago hip-hop beat the haters
For ages, local rappers tore each other down, as though the city could produce only one star at a time—but in 2016 the whole scene seemed to grasp the value of community.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 17, 2016
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The Era move footworking into the spotlight
The crews who evolved this grassroots Chicago dance style often end up as sideshows to DJs or rappers—but the Era hope to change that with their first stage production.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2016
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Photos of everything we saw at Lollapalooza 2016
Seventy-one great photos from Chicago's biggest for-profit music festival
- Music, Music Feature Jul 27, 2016
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Can Vic Mensa radicalize Lollapalooza?
The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2016
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Chicago singer the Mind makes romance sound huge and feel intimate on his debut mixtape
After adding his voice to music by the likes of Mick Jenkins, Chance the Rapper, and Joey Purp, the Mind steps out on his own with Summer Camp.
- Music, Music Feature May 25, 2016
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How Chicago made Joey Purp
The Save Money rapper’s new iiiDrops comes from a perspective shaped by neighborhoods on both sides of the city’s racial and economic divides.
- Music, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
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The happy return of Mad Decent Block Party
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2015
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Take a breather with hip-hop duo BoneLang's short and sweet Pleasure Palace
The new EP from this local pair is short enough to play several times in a row without making a dent in your day, and good enough that you'll want to keep listening.