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- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jan 14, 2021
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A memorial to Alejandro Morales
His death doesn’t just leave a hole in Chicago’s DIY music scene—it’s a loss to community activists, to affordable housing advocates, and to countless friendships.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 17, 2020
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Bobby Conn’s new album confronts the cruel delusion of ‘self-help’
Plus: Matt Jencik and Whitney Johnson team up as Deep Space Duo, and veteran hip-hop producer Spectacular Diagnostics rolls out new music for your social-distancing time.
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Feb 5, 2020
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Chicago’s weirdest cook-off signs off on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was created by local artist and animator Samuel Nigrosh.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 4, 2020
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Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box
Plus: Air Credits celebrate yet another new EP at the Empty Bottle, and the Synthesizer-Chili Cookoff signs off with its tenth installment.
- Music, Concert Preview Nov 21, 2019
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Brett Naucke goes deep into the void to deliver spacey electronic soundscapes
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 19, 2019
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Plantasia celebrates the music of Mort Garson—and plants
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 13, 2019
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Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl play with 30 cellos in a swimming pool
Plus: The rejuvenated Skin Graft Records drops a Chicago vs. New York compilation, and the Chili-Synthesizer Cook-Off returns for its ninth year of hearty weirdness.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2018
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Manuel Cinema's The End of TV and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Afro-futurism short films at Chicago Filmmakers and more goings on 7/27-7/29.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 25, 2018
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Whitney Johnson works to remystify music as Matchess
The Chicago violist, singer, and organist completes the Matchess Trilogy with the occult healing songs of the new Sacracorpa.
- Film, Artist on Artist Mar 27, 2018
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Minimal techno master Wolfgang Voigt returns to his ‘imaginary, misty forest’
On the eve of the first Chicago concert in nine years by his most beloved project, Gas, he answers questions from Whitney Johnson of Matchess.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 7, 2018
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A sharp-shootin’ Crock-Pot tosses its chili on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was created by local artist Brad Rohloff of Bred Press.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 23, 2016
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Simulation celebrate a new tape at ESS’s Summersonic festival
Plus: Tortoise drummer John Herndon and artist Jennifer Gutowski marry at Rainbo, and Bric-a-Brac Records takes over East Room for Scummer Slam 2016.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2015
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Psych voyagers Verma premiere a drone-shot desert video from their new LP
Verma's fourth full-length, Mul.Apin, comes out tomorrow on Trouble in Mind, and the Reader is premiering the video for "Elil.Sa.Ursag / Hero's.Theme."
- Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 30, 2015
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Miss Mia from Chic-a-Go-Go needs help to save her smile
Plus: Baudelaire in a Box returns with its goth-tastic eighth installment, and Ho Etsu Taiko takes over the Athenaeum.
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife 2015 Critics' Picks Jun 24, 2015
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Best transcendental deep-space synth trip
- Music, Music Feature May 18, 2015
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Haley Fohr bursts her own bubble in Circuit des Yeux
On the new In Plain Speech, the local singer-songwriter opens her hermetic music to the outside world—and brings on a bigger, more colorful cast of collaborators than ever before.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 24, 2015
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Guitarist Ryley Walker lets go of the reins on the unruly but pastoral Primrose Green
He's tried punk, noise, and Fahey-style fingerpicking, but he's about to reach his biggest audience yet with the jazzy, open-ended folk-rock of his new album.
- Music, In Rotation Jun 30, 2014
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In Rotation: Whitney Allen of Toupee on the world's loneliest whale
Plus: Whitney Johnson of Verma on backyard-party outsider funk, the Reader’s Kevin Warwick on surf rock from space, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2013
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Tape it or leave it: Considering the cassette release
You know what else is cool about tapes? Magic, that's what.
