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Author Archives: Miles Raymer

Posted inFilm

Made in Chicago

by Liz Armstrong, Heather Kenny, Miles Raymer and Kim Soss August 8, 2019August 23, 2021

1 hour 24 min • 2019

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best R&B Star on the Verge

by Miles Raymer June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

This 18-year-old vocalist could turn out to be Chicago’s answer to Nicki Minaj.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Rapper Taking Drill Into Pop

by Miles Raymer June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

In his hands it’s clear that drill relies as much on melody as it does on percussive, gunlike spitting.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Desert-Rock Band

by Miles Raymer June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Windswept, lysergic guitar boogie that has more in common with the arid wilderness of southern California than Chicago’s harsh winters

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Gothic Prog-Rock Duo

by Miles Raymer June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

A tenebrous, synth-heavy mix of early industrial music, Suicide-style protopunk, and avant-garde electronic compositions

Posted inBlogs

Peace out to the Reader

by Miles Raymer June 11, 2014August 18, 2021

Signing off on nearly a decade of writing for the paper

Posted inBlogs

Can the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts separate signal from noise?

by Miles Raymer June 3, 2014August 18, 2021

Billboard and Twitter go halves on a baby.

Kelis
Posted inMusic

Kelis keeps stirring the pot 15 years on

by Miles Raymer June 2, 2014August 18, 2021

Kelis didn’t become the star she should have 15 years ago, but she’s still one of modern R&B’s most consistently inventive artists.

Posted inBlogs

Paramore against the trolls and psychopaths

by Miles Raymer May 27, 2014August 18, 2021

“Ain’t It Fun” might be the cure for the Internet’s toxicity.

Posted inBlogs

Usher kicks off the summer chart wars

by Miles Raymer May 20, 2014August 18, 2021

“Good Kisser” prepares for chart dominance.

Posted inMusic

Lily Allen’s almost annoyingly catchy Sheezus and 15 more record reviews

by Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Miles Raymer, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick, Luca Cimarusti, Kim Kelly, Tal Rosenberg and David Whiteis May 19, 2014August 18, 2021

This month’s stack of record reviews will get you better acquainted with Ben Frost’s defibrillating body music, Dawn Golden’s alchemical electro-pop, and lots more.

Posted inBlogs

Michael Jackson bounces back

by Miles Raymer May 13, 2014August 18, 2021

A posthumous single that doesn’t feel ghoulish.

Posted inBlogs

Calvin Harris takes the lead

by Miles Raymer May 6, 2014August 18, 2021

Are EDM producers angling to get out from behind the boards?

David Cohen
Posted inMusic

Diode Milliampere does chiptune the hard way

by Miles Raymer April 30, 2014August 18, 2021

Chicago chiptune wizard Diode Milliampere wrings music out of obsolete hardware one command line at a time.

Posted inBlogs

Like it or not, 5 Seconds of Summer is rock’s future

by Miles Raymer April 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Pop-punk boy band brings new fans to a fading genre

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