The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP, an all-star Chicago crew plays Black Sabbath and Abba at the same Halloween show, and more.
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Seventies wizard rockers Bad Axe made their posthumous recorded debut in 2014
Bad Axe got a regular gig thanks to Rahm Emanuel’s mom and a belated vinyl release thanks to Permanent Records.
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Doom-metal pioneers Pentagram play at the Abbey tonight
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is a crushing tune from their debut album.
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Goatsnake shares a new track off their first record in 15 years
The stoner-metal titans return with more Sabbath worship.
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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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John Darnielle masters unreality with Wolf in White Van
Mountain Goats singer John Darnielle’s first full-length novel, Wolf in White Van, deserves its place on the National Book Awards long list.
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In Rotation: Whitney Allen of Toupee on the world’s loneliest whale
Current musical obsessions of Verma’s Whitney Johnson, Toupee’s Whitney Allen, and the Reader‘s Kevin Warwick
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Ale Syndicate’s Sunday Session: Also good on every other day
A beer that Samuel and Jesse Edwin Evans of Ale Syndicate fell in love with as home brewers in 2005 finally gets its first commercial bottling.
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12 O’Clock Track: The conflicted nostalgia of Black Milk’s “Black Sabbath”
Waxing nostalgic as an exercise in pain management: “Black Sabbath” from Black Milk’s new album, No Poison, No Paradise.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 8/16: Raks Geek, After Dark, and Black Sabbath
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, August 16
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My I-94 jam of the day: Eric Church’s “Drink in My Hand”
The best thing on country radio today
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We made it through Lollapalooza
Not even a storm evacuation, an amazingly terrible smell, and even worse sound could keep some of Lollapalooza’s music from shining
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How to make it through Lollapalooza: Friday
The acts that will get you through Friday of Lollapalooza with a minimum of regrets
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How to make it through Lollapalooza
Thirty acts that will get you through all three days of Lollapalooza with a minimum of regrets
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The Roots continue to be the best
I mean, why wouldn’t you play “Call Me Maybe” on toy instruments?