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German indie veterans the Notwist draw from Chicago’s jazz community for the new Vertigo Days
Long-running German group the Notwist perfected their airy combination of lovelorn indie rock and tender electronic sounds nearly two decades ago, but once they got it just right, they apparently decided never to repeat themselves. They preceded the new Vertigo Days (Morr Music) with an instrumental album steeped in the wallpaper aesthetics of library music […]
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Rapper Matt Muse runs a second Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive
Rapper Matt Muse runs a second Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive, a new compilation of 46 local artists benefits Chicago Community Jail Support, and more.
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Hardcore four-piece Wrong War show Trumpism the door
Hardcore four-piece Wrong War show Trumpism the door, Hieroglyphic Being drops his tenth new release since July, and more.
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Chicago’s September jazz festivals cope with COVID
The city is replacing the Chicago Jazz Festival with a slimmed-down online event, while the smaller, nimbler Hyde Park Jazz Festival plans to try pop-up in-person shows.
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The Awakening’s reissue of 1972’s Hear, Sense and Feel still uplifts through jazz and R&B
When the Awakening formed in the early 1970s, they combined veterans of Chicago’s R&B sessions and jazz players affiliated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The sextet drew on these diverse sources for its 1972 debut album, Hear, Sense and Feel, which is being reissued domestically this month as part of Real […]
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Creative collisions on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist and performer Cristal Sabbagh with assistance from Natalya Sturlis and Scott Rubin.
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Pianist Charles Joseph Smith celebrates companionship and solitude in a new video
Dr. Charles Joseph Smith collaborated on his new video with filmmakers from Mississippi Records and Raw Music International.
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Noname’s Book Club suggests libraries instead on National Fuck Amazon Day
Noname’s Book Club pushes library cards on National Fuck Amazon Day, Led Zeppelin 2 tour to celebrate Led Zeppelin III, and more.
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Eye Vybe Records doesn’t need you to pretend Christmas is fun
Eye Vybe Records doesn’t need you to pretend Christmas is fun, Comfort Station throws a holiday benefit show with a dazzling lineup, and more.
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Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
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The Jazz Festival’s orbit bustles with too much music for one weekend
Jazz Fest’s ten days of neighborhood concerts, satellite shows, and aftersets include Kidd Jordan, Angel Bat Dawid, Jeff Parker, Marc Ribot, and Ben Sidran.
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George Lewis is the guest of honor at this year’s Experimental Sound Studio Gala
Experimental Sound Studio has been assisting boundary-pushing artists since 1986. It provides studio services, opportunities to perform and show work, events that facilitate dialogues between artists and audiences, and archiving resources for avant-garde and exploratory music materials that might otherwise be lost. This year’s ESS gala fund-raiser has a twofold purpose: to help finance upgrades […]
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The gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police is now an outdoor memorial in Chicago
On what would have been Rice’s 17th birthday, we chart the journey of the structure that his mother can still picture him playing under.
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DJ and producer Ariel Zetina on a beautifully transgressive Portuguese beat genius
Current musical obsessions of producer and DJ Ariel Zetina, photographer Julia Dratel, and Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig