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Music, Gig Poster of the Week Jan 20, 2021
HotHouse meets Havana on the gig poster of the week

The venerable local arts presenter celebrates 34 years by streaming a fabulous lineup of jazz masters from Cuba and Chicago.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, listings, gig poster of the week, gig posters, jazz, Cuba, Latin jazz, events, HotHouse, Shelley Hiam, Austin Chronicle, SXSW, online events, livestream, YouTube

Music, The Listener Jul 20, 2020
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Another Sunny Day wrote a theme song for the disillusioned

The late-80s solo project of UK songwriter Harvey Williams still resonates with indie-pop misanthropes.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: The Listener, Another Sunny Day, twee, London Weekend, Field Mice, Harvey Williams, YouTube, indie pop, Sarah Records, You Should All Be Murdered, Trembling Blue Stars, Video

Music, Music Review Jul 6, 2020
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Tatiana Hazel knows she was meant to shine
- By Catalina Maria Johnson
- Tags: Music Review, Tatiana Hazel, Duality, YouTube, Los Angeles, pop music, synth, Latin Alternative Music Conference, Mexico, Latinx, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Feature Jun 17, 2020
Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?

Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.
- By Jack Riedy
- Tags: Music Feature, Spotify, Bandcamp, Amazon Music, Pandora, Sirius XM, Google Play, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube, YouTube Content ID, streaming, royalties, digital music, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, Sooper Records, Numero Group, Glenn Curran, Rob Sevier, Matt Pakulski, FPE Records, Dave Rempis, Aerophonic Records, Doug Kaplan, Hausu Mountain, Jessi Frick, Father/Daughter Records, Open Mike Eagle, Why? Records, Joshua Virtue, Trichordist, Taylor Swift, Scottie McNiece, International Anthem, RIAA, Recording Industry Association of America, Nnamï, Black Plight, Jackie’s House, Midia Research, Mark Mulligan, ASCAP, BMI, Copyright Royalty Board, National Music Publishers’ Association, Nashville Songwriters’ Association International, pro rata, user-centric, Joe Rogan, podcast, Frances Farlee, Artist Fundraising Pick, Matt Muse, Josh Kim, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Jordan Reyes, American Dreams Records, Cavanaugh, Quarantine Recordings, Serengeti, Art Is Love Vol. 1, Wyatt Waddell, Fight!, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Saint Icky, Black Skin, Assata’s Daughters, EAT Chicago, Healthy Hood Chicago, My Block My Hood My City, Quarantine Concerts, Do Division Street Fest, livestream, GLOhan Beats, D2X, Experimental Sound Studio

News & Politics, Feature May 27, 2020
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'Please stay at home'

From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.
- By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven
- Tags: Feature, Immigration, refugee, coronavirus, COVID-19, YouTube, heartland alliance, cdc, uganda, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf May 5, 2020
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YouTube-famous Blue Line busker Ashley Stevenson drops her first studio album

Plus: Dirt-rock ragers Hitter release their debut full-length, and indie-pop six-piece Spun Out share a single fit for future dance floors.
- By J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Ashley Stevenson, Ashley “Slim” Stevenson, Slim Freedom, Freedom, Blue Line, Fleetwood Mac, Landslide, YouTube, Prov Krivoshey, Hitter, Hanna Hazard, Hanna Johnson, Hanna “Hazard” Johnson, Meat Wave, Ryan Wizniak, Adam Luksetich, Foul Tip, Lifestyles, Lil Tits, Patrick Woodall, Hard Enough, Spun Out, Ne-Hi, Michael Wells, James Weir, Such Are the Lonely, Video

City Life, Stay at Home Apr 4, 2020
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 15 and 16

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Stay at Home, Buffy Sainte-Marie, car alarm, care, collapse, coronavirus, COVID-19, depression, Duke University, homework, Jessy Parr, light rock, lite rock, Little River Band, Metafilter, Modachrome, pandemic, Peanuts, Quarterflash, Sally Brown, stay at home, Twitter, YouTube

Music, Music Feature Mar 31, 2020
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Meet the YouTube singing star of the Hakha Chin diaspora

Burmese refugee Elena HT Par, a high school student in Chicago, won the Chin Cable Network’s 2019 award for song of the year.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Music Feature, Elena Par, Elena HT Par, Myanmar, Burma, Burmese, YouTube, Melody, Chin people, Hakha Chin, Chin State, Holy Trinity High School, Rin O. Zual, Honey KhuaitiZuu, Lai, Rohingya, Suisui Zaathang, Than Tiang, Chicago Chin Baptist Church, PBS Kids, Camp Rock, The Greatest Showman, This Is Me, Can’t Help Falling in Love, Demi Lovato, White December, Rewrite the Stars, Dave Lian, Mizoram, Chin Cable Network, Video

Music, Concert Preview Jan 31, 2020
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With Piece of Mind, Hxry brings a laid-back vibe to Chicago’s R&B scene
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Hxry, HXRY, R&B, Subterranean, hip-hop, Soundcloud, Piece of Mind, Reasons, Majestic Casual, YouTube, Mr. Freeze, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Jan 17, 2020
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Tate McRae is happy to sing sad pop
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Concert Preview, Tate McRae, So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, So You Think You Can Dance, YouTube, sad pop, ballet, All My Friends Are Fake, Schubas, Recommended, Video

Music, Concert Preview Dec 13, 2019
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Chicago rapper 8MatikLogan hones a new pop edge that could make him a star
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, 8MatikLogan, Logan, House of Pain, 1636, At the Studio, Hitco, William “LPeezy” Jones, rap, YouTube, Saba, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Comedy Nov 20, 2019
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Turning life lessons into a Korporate Bidness

Donovan Price turns to YouTube to hilariously highlight what #BlackChicagoBeLike.
- By Tyra Nicole Triche
- Tags: Comedy, Donovan Price, Korporate Bidness, #BlackChicagoBeLikeTheSeries, #BlackChicagoBeLike, YouTube, Chicago rap, Real Tears, Chiraq, The Chi, south side, west side, Cook County Department of Public Health, Cook County Health and Hospitals, #CodesofCulture, AT&T, Recommended

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 10, 2019
A dramatic confrontation between the right-wing political group #WalkAway and Theater Wit ends up on YouTube

Does a venue have the right to cancel an event if it objects to a client’s rhetoric?
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, #WalkAway Campaign, Theater Wit, hate speech, Jeremy Wechsler, Brandon Straka, Donald Trump Jr., Alex Jones, Log Cabin Republicans, Libby Albert, Mike Harlow, Blaire White, Josh Nordmark, Melissa Robey, Manny Alicandro, YouTube, City Hall bar

Music, Music Feature Mar 15, 2019
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How did the 'industry plant' take root?

Hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory is now used to discredit breakout successes in other genres—and it’s no more plausible there.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, industry plant, rap, hip-hop, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, DJ Akademiks, Alex Jones, Complex, Everyday Struggle, Russ, Exposed, XXL, Columbia, There’s Really a Wolf, Clairo, Pretty Girl, Fake Shore Drive, Andrew Barber, Blueface, the Coli, IGN, Trinidad James, Def Jam, Chance the Rapper, Raury, Freshman Class, Shins, New Slang, McDonald’s, Avery Springer, Retirement Party, Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Lorde, Dua Lipa, Halsey, In Sight Out, Ric Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Trippie Red, Baby Goth, Bria Bueno, Republic, A Love Letter to You 3, No Jumper, Video

Film, Movie Review Jul 24, 2018
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Eighth Grade: Social media, but no social life

In Bo Burnham's indie comedy, online culture becomes a breeding ground for teenage anxiety.
- By Cody Corrall
- Tags: Movie Review, Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, YouTube, Luke Prael, teenagers, teen sex, social media, coming-of-age stories, indie comedy, movies, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2018
Five must-see films about film

Five extraordinary films about film, by five extraordinary filmmakers.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, History, LGBT, On Video, Academy Awards, Agnès Varda, Oscars, Dorothy Malone, André S. Labarthe, Cinéastes de notre temps Cinéma, de notre temps, Criterion, YouTube, Colin Campbell, Colleen Moore, Little Orphant Annie, Music Box Theatre, Chicago Film Society, Lois Weber, Scandal Mongers, Sensation Seekers, Film Studies Center, Logan Center for the Arts, J.R. Jones, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Hitler's Hollywood, Filming "Othello", Orson Welles, Othello, Shakespeare, Micheal MacLiammoir, Iago, Hilton Edwards, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rock Hudson's Home Movies, Mark Rappaport, The Scenic Route, Eric Farr, Histoire(s) du cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, Gaumont, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Boris Godunov, The Last Bolshevik, Alexander Medvedkin, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, Los Angeles

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Feb 8, 2018
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Neil Hilborn’s poems have reached millions of viewers on YouTube

Now he’s bringing his act to Logan Square Auditorium.
- By Madeline Happold
- Tags: Lit Feature, Neil Hilborn, YouTube, poetry, OCD, Button Poetry, social media, poetry reading, mental illness, Video

Music, In Rotation Jun 26, 2017
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Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece

Plus: Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party on a record so danceable it has its own energy drink, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on a long, strange film about the Grateful Dead, and more
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: In Rotation, Long Strange Trip, Grateful Dead, documentary, LSD, Ben Koller, YouTube, GoPro, drummer, Converge, Mutoid Man, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Elephant Talk, Simmons drums, Chapman stick, Ryan Wizniak, Meat Wave, Meg MacDuff, Bleach Party, Montrose Man, Uranium Club, All of Them Naturals, Decibelles, Tight, Gina X Performance, Nice Mover, Prince Rama, Xtreme Now, Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson, Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Denial, Will Toledo, Heavy Hand, Prerapture Era, Milwaukee, Electrical Audio, Chris Roberts, Isa Carini, Anthony Weber, Bitterfest, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2017
Bob Seger’s conspicuous online absence, The Voice, lo-fi house: the week in music writing

The Reader's weekly best in music writing across the web
- By Austin Brown
- Tags: Music, Did You Read __________?, The Voice, American Idol, lo-fi house, DJ Seinfeld, Ross From Friends, YouTube, Sound Opinions, Jim DeRogatis, Chess Records, Chuck Berry, Grace Ambrose, Maximum Rocknroll, DIY, Bob Seger, poetry

Music, Music Feature Mar 29, 2017
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Chicago’s most popular young metal guitarist plays on YouTube, not onstage

Rob Scallon’s frequently goofy videos—among them a banjo cover of Slayer’s ‘Raining Blood’—have earned him an audience of millions.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Rob Scallon, YouTube, The Scene Is Dead, metal, guitar, Slayer, Metallica, Gas Mask Catalogue, Super Metal Records, djent, DFTBA, Don’t Forget to Be Awesome, YouTubers, Hank Green, Patreon, Metal in Inappropriate Places, banjo, Chapman Guitars, Tamara Chambers, sitar, berimbau, Kala, Cecilio, Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, Raining Blood, Driftless Pony Club, Hank Green & the Perfect Strangers, Billboard, Bandcamp, MetalSucks, Axl Rosenberg, Songs to Wear Pants To, Andrew Huang, National Association of Music Merchants Show, VidCon, John Green, NAMM Show, NAMM, Wheezy Waiter, Craig Benzine, Jake Jarvi, Rick Riffson, Bob Clagett, I Like to Make Stuff, Shovel Metal, Ryan “Fluff” Bruce, Riffs & Beards, Sarah Longfield, MTV, Owen, American Football, Mike Kinsella, Jeff Loomis, Oceano, Dave Brown, Boy in a Band, Most Brutal Breakdown Ever, Video

Music, In Rotation Mar 21, 2017
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Sonnenzimmer cofounder Nick Butcher on one of the TR-808’s earliest star turns

Plus: Artist Alex Valentine on the score that should’ve won this year’s Oscar, Reader critic Peter Margasak on a solo violin record that contains multitudes, and more
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: In Rotation, Maarja Nuut, Une Meeles, violin, Jürg Frey, String Quartet No. 3, Unhörbare Zeit, composer, Quatuor Bozzini, Neuköllner Modelle, Sektion 1-2, Sven-Ake Johansson, Bertrand Denzler, Joel Grip, constructive free jazz, Nick Butcher, Sonnenzimmer, Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa, Absolutely on Music, Lvnch, Scott Carter, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Technodelic, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alex Valentine, Knobs, YouTube, Organelle, Critter & Guitari, 90 Day Men, Peel session, Brian Case, Robert A.A. Lowe, Lichens, Bloodiest, FACS, Cayce Key, Mica Levi, Micachu & the Shapes, film music, score, Jackie, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2016
Peter Thiel and “the YouTube couple” stir Chicago’s Second City syndrome

Recent comments exposed the city's inferiority complex.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: News, Things I Hate, Second City syndrome, Peter Thiel, Brianna Joy White, Jaelin White, YouTube, PayPal, Ayn Rand, Silicon Valley, Mayor 1 Percent, Roosevelt University

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2016
Fewer detectives plus more homicides equals fewer murders solved, and other Chicago news

CPD denies Donald Trump's claim that he met with a top Chicago cop, and more.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago Police Department, gun violence, gang violence, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Lurie Children's Hospital, YouTube

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jul 20, 2016
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Comedian Megan Gailey comes home: ‘We’re so annoying about being from Chicago’

The stand-up headlines the upcoming Comedy Exposition.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Megan Gailey, The Comedy Exposition, MTV, Ladylike, stand-up, Schubas, Youtube, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2014
Bee and PuppyCat is as adorable and bizarre as ever

The animated show finds life on YouTube thanks to Kickstarter.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Things I Love, Arts, The Internet, Small Screen, Bee and Puppycat, Natasha Allegri, Kickstarter, YouTube, Allyn Rachel, animation

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