Gossip Wolf has long admired local country-music craftsman Dan Whitaker, whose considerable discography includes folk-tinged solo work and recordings with his combo the Shinebenders that combine hillbilly jazz, country blues, honky-tonk stompers, and working-class ballads about booze, trucks, and lost love. By the end of this month, Whitaker will have relocated to Martindale, Texas (between […]
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Chicago’s Air Credits are still having a ball with their dystopian visions
Few pop acts are quite as prepared to engage with climate change as Chicago’s Air Credits. Since 2016, rapper ShowYouSuck (aka Clinton Sandifer) and producer Steve Reidell (half of the Hood Internet) have turned dystopian nightmares into strangely joyful songs. There’s catharsis to be found in these missives from a future where oxygen is a […]
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Volutus Records is having a busy pandemic
Volutus Records has a busy pandemic, Fat Night drop an album that would’ve been perfect for a normal summer, and more.
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Silkworm veteran Tim Midyett finally drops the first Mint Mile full-length
Silkworm veteran Tim Midyett finally drops the first Mint Mile full-length, Steve Reidell of Air Credits almost remakes the 1980 Genesis album Duke, and more.
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Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box
Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box, the Synthesizer-Chili Cookoff signs off with its tenth installment, and more.
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Caroline, or Change and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
SOB X RBE and Quando Rondo and other goings on 10/8-10/11
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Chicago rap futurists Air Credits find joy amid dystopian ruin
The members of Minneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree appear to have a soft spot for Chicagoans. In June, their label (also called Doomtree) dropped a full-length collaboration between their producer Lazerbeak and veteran Chicago rapper Longshot. In August, Doomtree put out Artería Verité, an album that brings together group member Sims (and his recent go-to producer, […]
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ShowYouSuck builds on his omnivorous hip-hop with a free-form TV show
ShowYouSuck builds on his omnivorous hip-hop with the Hood Internet collaboration Air Credits and the JBTV show Good Luck Hunting.
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The year Chicago hip-hop beat the haters
For ages, Chicago rappers tore each other down, as though the city could produce only one star at a time—but in 2016 the whole scene seemed to grasp the value of community.
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Steve Reidell of the Hood Internet on an overlooked R&B wizard
Current musical obsessions of Steve Reidell from the Hood Internet, Metro publicist Shannon Shreibak, and the Reader’s Leor Galil
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Chance the Rapper at Taste of Chicago and more things to do this week
Open Mike Eagle, an MCA stroller tour, and more happenings in Chicago from July 5-7