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Home » Angel Bat Dawid

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Oui Ennui
Posted inMusic

Jonn Wallen of Oui Ennui made a torrent of genre-hopping albums while battling long COVID

by Leor Galil May 27, 2022June 1, 2022

In the past year or so, whenever a friend has asked me to recommend music, I’ve pointed them at Chicago multi-instrumentalist Jonn Wallen, who creates omnidirectional experimental electronic albums under […]

The four members of Sons of Kemet dancing against a green backdrop
Posted inMusic

Sons of Kemet go Black to the Future at Lincoln Hall

by Hannah Edgar March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

Barbadian-British reedist Shabaka Hutchings can’t contain his creativity within a single group—right now he has three. His most expansive is Shabaka & the Ancestors, a sextext featuring several South African […]

Damon Locks leads the Black Monument Ensemble during a recording session in the garden behind Experimental Sound Studio.
Posted inBest of Chicago

Best use of cicadas on a jazz album

by Leor Galil March 2, 2022March 23, 2022

The dense, iridescent drone of an untold number of singing cicadas seeps into Now, the 2021 sophomore full-length by Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble. In August and September 2020, 11 […]

A group of Black women in blue denim huddle together on the floor.
Posted inArts & Culture

‘We need to be imagining other possibilities for ourselves’

by Irene Hsiao February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

The United States incarcerates more people and incarcerates them at a higher rate than any other country in the world, with 2.3 million people presently in custody—over half a million […]

A diptych image of Detroit guitarist and composer LuFuki and Chicago multi-instrumentalist and composer Angel Bat Dawid
Posted inMusic

Elastic Arts hosts the fourth annual Afrofuturist Weekend

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

The fourth annual Afrofuturist Weekend comes to Elastic Arts from Friday, October 22, through Sunday, October 24, with evening programs on Friday and Saturday and daytime programs on Saturday and […]

Isabel “Izzy” Olive of Half Gringa
Posted inMusic

Half Gringa drops a new single and plays a pandemic-delayed album-release show

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil September 8, 2021September 8, 2021

Gossip Wolf has been following the work of local singer-songwriter Isabel “Izzy” Olive, aka Half Gringa, since she was still calling her project Tin Silos in the mid-2010s. Since adopting […]

Posted inMusic

Bandcamp Fridays are back, at least for the rest of 2021

by Leor Galil August 4, 2021August 18, 2021

Though live shows are returning, there’s no safer way to support artists and labels than buying music online.

Jessica Hopper
Posted inMusic

Rock critic Jessica Hopper publishes an expanded edition of her first book

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Rock critic Jessica Hopper publishes a hugely expanded edition of her first book, Bryan Away (aka Elliot Korte) drops an album of lush folk-pop, and more.

Posted inMusic

Angel Bat Dawid finds creative kinship in Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty

by Hannah Edgar July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Brotherhood, meet sisterhood. Those who know clarinetist, composer, and self-described “sonic archaeologist” Angel Bat Dawid from the incisive October release LIVE likely associate her with her stalwart seven-piece band, Tha […]

Grant Park Orchestra at the Pritzker Pavilion
Posted inCity Life

Celebrate independence your way

by Salem Collo-Julin and Kerry Reid July 2, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days

Demand Justice by Maxwell Emcays
Posted inCity Life

Juneteenth celebrations and more

by Salem Collo-Julin June 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days

Posted inMusic

Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble’s Now is an essential album of the moment

by Hannah Edgar April 16, 2021August 18, 2021

Flipping through television channels. Flicking through radio stations. They’re quotidian actions—until they’re not. When you’ve lived through a year like 2020, every frequency delivers the same nightmare from a different […]

Posted inMusic

Celebrating women’s solidarity through culture on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin March 31, 2021August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago-via-Indiana photographer and designer Adeleine Prairie Sinsabaugh.

Posted inMusic

Alejandro Ayala, aka King Hippo, DJ and producer

by Salem Collo-Julin March 18, 2021August 18, 2021

“You bring people together and something will always happen. . . . The how is pretty easy, but the why is more important to me.”

Posted inCity Life

Celebrating Black achievements

by Salem Collo-Julin February 26, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator

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