In 2015, Chicago singer-songwriter Owen Ashworth told me he considered Nephew in the Wild, the then-forthcoming second album of his solo project Advance Base, a make-or-break effort: “The fate of this record will decide how much time I can put into music in the future, as far as how much I share with the world.” […]
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Prog paragons Cheer-Accident drop an album that contains multitudes
Prog paragons Cheer-Accident drop an album that contains multitudes, Owen Ashworth’s Orindal Records hosts a showcase at the Landland print shop, and more.
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Chicago label Orindal deals in intimacy, even as this weekend’s Hideout showcase demonstrates its growing reach
After ending his long-running indie-pop project Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in 2010, Chicago-based musician Owen Ashworth launched Orindal Records. It was part of a musical rebirth, but more a spiritual move than a sonic one: the label’s first release, a 2011 split, features one of the first singles from Ashworth’s post-Casiotone project, Advance Base, […]
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Advance Base drops the Casiotone, is no longer painfully alone
Owen Ashworth named his latest indie-pop project after an isolated Antarctic weather station, but its MO takes his whole family into account.
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Here’s your last chance to see Advance Base before the band’s forthcoming record drops
Owen Ashworth is preparing to release a new Advance Base full-length in August, and if you want to see him beforehand then head to Comfort Station tomorrow night.
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South Carolina duo Elvis Depressedly never meant to make you weepy
Check out a track from the lo-fi indie group before they play Beat Kitchen on Sunday.
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Gossip Wolf: Booker Matt Kimmel leaves the Burlington (and Chicago, for now)
Matt Kimmel’s good-bye to booking the Burlington, emo royalty at American Football, a new Swearwords EP, and more
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Listen closely to Jimmy Whispers
His street art and love songs have a powerful antiviolence subtext—and his Summer in Pain Festival benefits CeaseFire.
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Record Breakers turns 25
Record Breakers, the shop that sits on top of Reggie’s in the South Loop, celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend.
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Gossip Wolf: Marc Ruvolo hands over the Bucket O’ Blood
Marc Ruvolo hands over the Bucket O’ Blood, Owen Ashworth records with Sun Kil Moon, and more.
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Best Reimagining of the Work of Gospel Singer Washington Phillips
The soft incandescence in this music shines a light on the details in Phillips’s tunes but doesn’t mess around too much with their spirit.
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12 O’Clock Track: Advance Base’s warm and rustic cover of Washington Phillips’s “I Had a Good Father & Mother”
Advance Base covers “I Had a Good Father & Mother,” a song from enigmatic preacher and outsider gospel musician Washington Phillips.
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 5/5: Sprocket Hole/Speaker Box, Bodies in Motion, and Pete Jordan
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, May 5.