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- Music, The Listener Dec 14, 2020
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Neptunian Maximalism deliver a funeral rite for the human species
This Belgian collective’s recent triple album, Éons, imagines a future Earth dominated by hyperintelligent elephants.
- Music, The Listener Nov 2, 2020
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Serena Isioma has an antidote for election anxiety
The Chicago bedroom-pop songwriter can give your brain a 15-minute vacation with the Sensitive EP.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 25, 2020
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The Chicago Underground Quartet bottle their lightning again
For 19 years, their first album was their only album—but now longtime collaborators Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, and Chad Taylor have recaptured the group’s freewheeling jazz spirit.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 26, 2019
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We’re going to make this wedding weird on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by Chicago artist and musician Matthew Gladly for his band Glad Rags.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 17, 2019
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Sharkula and Mukqs: two weird sounds that go down easy together
The outsider rapper and the oddball electronic artist make a surprisingly approachable collaborative EP.
- Music, Music Feature May 30, 2017
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TALsounds steps into the same river twice
To support Love Sick, her biggest album yet, Natalie Chami has learned to replay the beautiful ambient pop songs she improvised to record it.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2017
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This week’s Frequency Festival finds points of contact between classical, jazz, and the avant-garde
The concert series booked by the Reader's Peter Margasak throws its second annual six-day festival of boundary-erasing music.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2017
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As Fire-Toolz, Chicago experimentalist Angel Marcloid makes disorienting collages that feel strangely like home
Local label Hausu Mountain releases the new Fire-Toolz album, Drip Mental, through Bandcamp today—and the platform's proceeds go to the ACLU.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2016
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Avant-garde pioneer Pamela Z brings her otherworldly vocal manipulations to Constellation
Pamela Z performs a series of "pop-song length" pieces on Saturday, showcasing the layered, polyrhythmic vocal processing she helped introduce to experimental music.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2016
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Jordonna is a trippy new hip-hop project from a former noise rocker
Dreebs guitarist Jordan Bernstein has reinvented himself as drugged-out experimental rapper Jordonna.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2016
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Thalia Hall gets far-out with this weekend's psych-heavy Levitation Chicago festival
Levitation's massive celebration of weirdo tunes kicks off on Thursday night.
- 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.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2015
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David Yow stars in a brand-new video for Wrekmeister Harmonies
The creepy clip and with the dark ambient project's new record are released today.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 23, 2015
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London's Cheatahs bring their strange sounds to Subterranean tomorrow night
The shoegaze band gets weirder on their new tracks.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2015
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Causings come to town with abstract free improv you can call on the phone
Brooklyn-based collective Causings play a "call-in" show on WHPK on Friday and a more conventional concert at Elastic on Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2015
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Free, all-ages library punk shows continue this Saturday in Rogers Park
Kenny Rasmussen continues bringing experimental rock music to the city's libraries.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2015
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Chicago singer-producer Cole M. Johnson offers up inspired experimental R&B
He's a, um, "Keeper."
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2015
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Negativland's 'The Answer Is' puts an avant-garde spin on elevator music
On "The Answer Is" experimental-music outfit Negativland redefines elevator music.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2015
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Extreme noise-rock-industrial duo Uniform plays at the Empty Bottle this weekend
The confrontational Brooklyn duo is back with more hard sounds.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2014
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Internet-famous singer Spooky Black will only get bigger and better
"Without You," the soulful tune from the heart and soul of the Stand4rd, is today's 12 O'Clock Track.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2014
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Disappears debut a track from their upcoming LP
The spacey local act has a new record coming out early next year.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2014
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Brett Naucke continues his busy month with two shows tonight
Local synth artist Brett Naucke plays his 12th and 13th shows of the month tonight.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2014
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Ono celebrates the release of Diegesis this weekend
The local art-rock group welcomes its second postreunion LP on Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2014
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Magical Beautiful drops its first new track since 2011
Magical Beautiful release their first music in years and gear up for an awesome show this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2014
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Lumerians get far out at the Owl
The Owl continues its great booking with two sets from San Francisco's Lumerians tonight.