Chicago drummer Luke Titus and New York rapper-singer Cisco Swank unite jazz, R&B, and hip-hop on their new album, Some Things Take Time (Sooper). Brief but stimulating, the record feels like a walk around the block as the neighborhood awakens. Swank and Titus are both young multi-instrumentalists and producers with prodigious backgrounds: Swank attended New […]
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Chicago pop wiz Luke Titus steps out from behind his drum kit
Luke Sangerman, who performs and records as Luke Titus, is 24 years old but has the skill set and intuition of a seasoned veteran. He’s had a long music career for someone his age: He joined the Blue Man Group as a stage-band drummer at age 15, becoming the youngest American ever hired by the […]
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Bare-knuckled theatrics
For 41 years, the Chicago Theatre Softball League has meant summertime camaraderie for the city’s troupes.
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From the archive: When a Reader staffer dreamed of blue-faced superstardom
Inside the audition process for the Blue Man Group
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Gender Breakdown, and nine more stage shows to see now
A black Irish comedy and a look at inequity in the local theater scene are among this week’s best bets.
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Roz and Ray, Turtle, and eight more new stage shows
A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week’s best bets.
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Best group of veterans of the Blue Man backing band
Electric Hawk Drummer Noah Leger, who plays in ultraminimal postpunk outfit Disappears, holds down a day job behind the kit in the Blue Man Group’s onstage backing band. In 2009, after years of throwing ideas around, he and two other Blue Man musicians, Las Vegas natives Mike Burns (guitar) and Graham McLachlan (bass), put their […]
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In Rotation: Noah Leger of the Blue Man Group on whipping sheet metal with a chain
Musical obsessions of a Blue Man Group drum tech, Bloodiest’s singer, and a Reader staffer
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Am I Blue?
The audition sounded like it might be fun. Now what I have gotten myself into.