1 hour 24 min • 2019
Author Archives: Miles Raymer
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best R&B Star on the Verge
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
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
Windswept, lysergic guitar boogie that has more in common with the arid wilderness of southern California than Chicago’s harsh winters
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Best Gothic Prog-Rock Duo
A tenebrous, synth-heavy mix of early industrial music, Suicide-style protopunk, and avant-garde electronic compositions
Posted inBlogs
Can the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts separate signal from noise?
Billboard and Twitter go halves on a baby.
Posted inMusic
Kelis keeps stirring the pot 15 years on
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
“Ain’t It Fun” might be the cure for the Internet’s toxicity.
Posted inMusic
Lily Allen’s almost annoyingly catchy Sheezus and 15 more record reviews
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
Calvin Harris takes the lead
Are EDM producers angling to get out from behind the boards?
Posted inMusic
Diode Milliampere does chiptune the hard way
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
Pop-punk boy band brings new fans to a fading genre