Furrow Collective’s starkly beautiful, carefully embroidered version of “Dear Companion” is a highlight of its second album, Wild Hog.
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Sleater-Kinney’s clear-eyed, open-hearted No Cities to Love and 11 more record reviews
Eight Reader writers tackle a dozen new releases, including John Carpenter’s first music not for film, Aine O’Dwyer’s improvisations on pipe organ, and a reissue of Del Shannon’s 1968 psych-pop masterpiece.
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Jason Molina’s long dark blues
Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. front man Jason Molina produced a prodigious catalog of stark and heartbreaking music. Then he disappeared.
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Black Flag’s not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews
Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla’s house-party jams, Last False Hope’s steel-toed bluegrass, and 14 more records reviewed.
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Best shows to see: Mouthbreathers, Maxim Vengerov, Alasdair Roberts, Future Bible Heroes
Between now and Wednesday, your live-music options include Mouthbreathers, Maxim Vengerov, Alasdair Roberts, Future Bible Heroes, We Are Scientists, and the Hecks.
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 7/14: West Fest, Square Roots, DuSable Arts & Crafts Festival
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, July 14
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City announces 2013 lineups for Downtown Sound, Loops & Variations, and Made in Chicago
What’s scheduled for some of this summer’s best free concert series.
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The Year in Review: Music
Six Reader writers, 12 months, 30 picks, and no generic “top tens”
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12 O’Clock Track: Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts, “Mile Marbhphaisg air a’ Ghaol”
A song from the forthcoming Gaelic-centered album by Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison
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Nathan Salsburg stands up with Affirmed
Lomax Archives producer Nathan Salsburg steps out from behind the board to release his own music
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Luke Fowler’s sonic cinema in Chicago
Experimental Scottish filmmaker Luke Fowler visits Chicago to attend two screenings of his work this week.
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Post No Bills Podcast #6
The new Post No Bills Podcast is live, with music by Seu Jorge, Etran Finatawa, Archie Shepp, Oval, Ideal Bread, and more.
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Alasdair Roberts, MV & EE Medicine Show
On the new No Earthly Man (Drag City), Glaswegian singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts completes a years-long metamorphosis: British Isles folk has rippled through his work ever since he formed the group Appendix Out in the mid-90s, but now he’s wholly submerged in the role of Brit-folk archaeologist, historian, and synthesist. None of the new […]
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Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts declared his love for British folk music in 2001 with The Crook of My Arm (Secretly Canadian), an acoustic solo album of songs he learned from the likes of Shirley Collins, Dick Gaughan, and Anne Briggs. At the time it seemed like a tangential ramble off the path his folk-rock band Appendix Out […]