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Home » Archives for Shannon Nico Shreibak

Author Archives: Shannon Nico Shreibak

Cat Power
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Cat Power brings catalog cornerstones and reworked classics to Thalia Hall

by Shannon Nico Shreibak July 22, 2022July 22, 2022

Chan Marshall, who’s performed as Cat Power since the mid-90s (she adopted it from the name of her first band), refreshes even the most weathered motifs with her smokestack voice. […]

Hana Vu in an all-black outfit reaching forward
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Hana Vu carves new pop landscapes with Public Storage

by Shannon Nico Shreibak January 10, 2022January 5, 2022

Storage units, with their heavy padlocked doors and stockpiles of intimate possessions, are ripe for metaphors about emotional compartmentalization. On her debut album, Public Storage, Los Angeles guitarist and songwriter […]

The band Desert Liminal, a trio, with 2 sitting inside a green car and one member sitting on top of the car
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Desert Liminal make art for artifice with Glass Fate

by Shannon Nico Shreibak November 26, 2021November 29, 2021

The lead single from Desert Liminal’s latest album bursts with a gut punch of a line: “I don’t need no southbound highway sign to tell me hell is real.” Glass […]

Lakshmi Ramgopal and violinist Johanna Brock during the performance that capped Ramgopal’s 2019 residency at the Glasner Studio
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Edgar Miller’s handmade homes have become wellsprings of inspiration for local artists

by Shannon Nico Shreibak November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

Like a scarlet pane of firelight shining from a brick-and-mortar facade, a red door on the 1700 block of North Wells announces the presence of a little piece of magic […]

Mia Joy sitting on a wood block against a blue backdrop
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Mia Joy dives diary-deep on her debut album, Spirit Tamer

by Shannon Nico Shreibak October 12, 2021October 15, 2021

Update: This concert has been postponed to a yet-to-be-determined date. If ever an artist were predestined to create deep-seated dream-folk songs, it might be Mia Rocha, who performs as Mia […]

Lala Lala holding scissors
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Lala Lala questions identity and isolation with I Want the Door to Open

by Shannon Nico Shreibak September 30, 2021September 29, 2021

Lala Lala’s ebullient new fourth album, I Want the Door to Open, feels like a musical antithesis of the isolation and insularity of the past 18 months. The project of […]

Members of the bands the Body and Big|Brave
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The Body and Big|Brave draw on the Band and Appalachia for Leaving None but Small Birds

by Shannon Nico Shreibak September 24, 2021September 21, 2021

The Body and Big|Brave are both known for their takes on pulverizing, minimalist postmetal, but their new collaborative album, Leaving None but Small Birds (Thrill Jockey), gazes at the infinite […]

The band Shannon and the Clams pose for a photo.
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Shannon & the Clams contend with love, loss, and peeping toms on Year of the Spider

by Shannon Nico Shreibak August 24, 2021August 19, 2021

Shannon & the Clams’ new sixth album, Year of the Spider, is a welcome anomaly in this wretched second pandemic summer. The band completed the record in early 2020, just […]

King Woman
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King Woman retell personal and Biblical horrors with Celestial Blues

by Shannon Nico Shreibak July 27, 2021August 18, 2021

When you can’t outrun your past, one option is to face it with your own poetics. That’s the approach King Woman front woman Kris Esfandiari takes when confronting the Biblical […]

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Chicago’s Devin Shaffer channels idiosyncrasies into soundscapes on In My Dreams I’m There

by Shannon Nico Shreibak July 7, 2021August 18, 2021

Devin Shaffer spent her formative years searching for a sense of belonging as a performer—whether on a stage or in Chicago’s musical zeitgeist. In 2012 she found that elusive sense […]

Lucy Dacus
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Lucy Dacus reflects on her coming-of-age with the new Home Video

by Shannon Nico Shreibak June 30, 2021August 18, 2021

The moment you start reflecting on a time that’s past, it’s no longer something you’re living—it becomes something you’ve lived. Lucy Dacus documents and interrogates her own coming-of-age on her […]

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On Interior Terror, Chicago industrial duo Hide find everyday horrors in the corporeal and immaterial

by Shannon Nico Shreibak June 3, 2021August 18, 2021

The term “minimalism” often conjures up white walls and bright lights—a defiant barrenness in a world steeped in chaos—but Chicago-based industrial duo Hide take their stark sounds to a far […]

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After a 16-year wait, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney resurface as Superwolves

by Shannon Nico Shreibak May 12, 2021August 18, 2021

When wolves form a pack, they form bonds that last a lifetime. A similar feeling of familiarity and connection suffuses the duo project of Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) […]

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s new Carnage soundtracks a “communal catastrophe”

by Shannon Nico Shreibak March 17, 2021August 18, 2021

In 2018 Nick Cave opened a new portal into his world with a question-and-answer newsletter titled the Red Hand Files. As queries from fans flooded in, Cave dutifully replied with […]

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Mogwai celebrate 25 years of postrock exploration with As the Love Continues

by Shannon Nico Shreibak February 24, 2021August 18, 2021

Mogwai have never presented themselves as a sentimental band, but the (mostly) instrumental Scottish postrock group are leaning into nostalgia to commemorate their 25th year: they’re releasing their tenth studio […]

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