Lala Lala’s ebullient new fourth album, I Want the Door to Open, feels like a musical antithesis of the isolation and insularity of the past 18 months. The project of Chicago songwriter Lillie West, Lala Lala rose to prominence with 2018’s The Lamb (Hardly Art), which was recorded live with a three-piece band. IWTDTO, by […]
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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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Learning to like Death Cab for Cutie, one song at a time
Turns out the group’s new Kintsugi is pretty decent—at least, at the beginning.
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Saturday: Lollapalooza 2013 according to Reader writers
What to see on Saturday at Lollapalooza 2013
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Kerouac documentary tonight only
The new documentary “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur” screens Tuesday 10/20 at Webster Place.
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Jay Farrar: A Man and His Sound
For better or worse, Son Volt’s Jay Farrar is a model of consistency.