This below-underground Chicago songwriter wants something that might be impossible to get on purpose: a cult following
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Three Beats: Bassist Harrison Bankhead finally releases an album of his own
Plus: There’s only room for one Canadian Girlfriend in this town, and Kid Sister Everything jumps on the tape train
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Three Beats: Chicago vs. Atlanta on a new cassette comp of local psych
Plus: A transformed Singer returns for a second album, and Parallax Sounds, a doc on Chicago architecture and music, needs your support
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2011 Pitchfork Music Fest: The slideshow
Photography from the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival by Andrea Bauer, Leor Galil, and Emma Arnold
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Our guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival
Reviews of all 45 bands, a rundown of afterparties, and a free 29-song download
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Three Beats: George Freeman reflects on seven decades in jazz
Plus: The Slayer magazine book comes to Chicago, and Cloud Mouth plays a round robin
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Soundboard: July 7-13
Archers of Loaf, Yob, Tinariwen, Mount Moriah, Emmylou Harris, and other notable shows
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Soundboard: June 30-July 6
White Fence, Fucked Up, Hex Machine, Devin Townsend Project and other notable shows
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Soundboard: June 23-June 30
Loose Dudes, LL Cool J, Hall & Oates, and other notable shows
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Soundboard: June 16-23
Hakim, Luke Vibert, Swervedriver at Taste of Randolph, and other notable shows
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Three Beats: Buy Chrissy Murderbot’s record collection, Buried at Sea plays Alehorn of Power, and Utech and Okka Disk throw parties in Milwaukee
DANCE | For sale: Chrissy Murderbot’s record collection Local electronic producer Chris Shively, aka Chrissy Murderbot, who runs the labels Sleazetone and Loose Squares, is slimming down his record collection. Last Monday he put about 90 percent of it, which works out to more than 700 pieces, up for sale at online music catalog and […]
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Soundboard: June 2-8
Recommended and notable concerts, including Charles Lloyd, Raphael Saadiq, Antietam, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, David Bazan, and Earth
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Three Beats: Jazz great Eddie Johnson gets a posthumous CD release; experimental duo Cleared celebrates the cassette; Rockford emo band Joie de Vivre says au revoir
A posthumous CD release for the great Eddie Johnson Tenor saxophonist Eddie Johnson, who died last year on April 7 at age 89, was one of Chicago’s greatest jazz musicians, a pure embodiment of the classic swing he’d grown up playing. He only made two albums under his own name, and the better of the […]
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Soundboard: May 12-18
Recommended and notable shows, including Cola Freaks, Woods of Ypres, James Blake, Childish Gambino, and more
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Three Beats: Debuts from Sarah Weis and Supreme Cuts, finally a new release from Peira, and fresh stuff from Weekend Nachos and Novembers Doom
ELECTRONIC | Debuts by Sarah Weis and Supreme Cuts Last week Plustapes issued Musik & Plus, the debut cassette from eccentric local singer, songwriter, and synthesizer artist Sarah Weis (left). It’s not her first recorded work—she’s made soundtracks for a couple B movies produced by i^3 Hypermedia, a company she cofounded—but the 25-song effort is […]