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Nina Hagen’s pop-punk politics age Into awesomeness on the new Unity

by Noah Berlatsky December 8, 2022December 6, 2022

Some aging rock legends make music that feels like a shadow of the early work that cemented their fame. Not Nina Hagen, though. On Unity (Grönland), her first album since 2011, the German pop-punk icon unleashes a blast of feral camp that sounds if anything more Hagen than ever. Her distinctive theatrical voice has roughened […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Amy Sillman breaks down art barriers

by Dmitry Samarov February 9, 2021August 18, 2021

In her book Faux Pas, the painter makes a rarified field approachable with humor and profundity.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Bob Dylan’s ode to Chicago

by Ben Joravsky May 12, 2020August 18, 2021

The new Michael Reese TIF plan tries to undo the damage of the old one.

Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 53

by Reader staff May 12, 2020August 18, 2021

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

Posted inMusic

Did John Prine die for Donald Trump’s sins?

by Mark Guarino April 8, 2020August 18, 2021

The cruelty, ignorance, and incompetence of the federal pandemic response have cost the life of beloved singer-songwriter John Prine, who stood against all those things.

Posted inMusic

Cult songwriter Amy Rigby makes her book debut

by J.R. Jones October 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Amy Rigby’s new memoir, Girl to City, crackles with the kind of sharp insights and perfectly chosen details her fans already love.

Posted inMusic

J.S. Ondara creates Americana imbued with the heartache of the immigrant experience

by Catalina Maria Johnson October 17, 2019August 18, 2021

The first time Kenyan singer-songwriter J.S. Ondara heard the music of Bob Dylan, he was blown away. As a bow-tie-wearing, poetry-writing teenager, Ondara often felt out of place among his peers, but listening to America’s most famous folk troubadour inspired him to set his own verses to music. In 2013, at age 20, Ondara won […]

Posted inMusic

David Dann on his new biography of blues-rock guitarist Michael Bloomfield

by Jack Riedy October 11, 2019August 18, 2021

From Glencoe to Monterey Pop to oblivion: Michael Bloomfield’s huge talent and unique style changed rock guitar forever, but while Clapton and Hendrix entered the canon, he faded away.

Posted inMusic

Bettye LaVette can make any song sound like it was written for her

by Bill Dahl June 3, 2019August 18, 2021

Bettye LaVette debuted with a hit soul single in 1962, but she’s long since transcended genre, singing blues, country, pop, funk, rock, and more.

Posted inMusic

Muddy Waters drummer Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith never escaped the sideman shadow

by Steve Krakow February 13, 2019August 18, 2021

Even when Willie “Big Eyes” Smith won a Grammy at the end of his life, he shared it with pianist Pinetop Perkins.

Posted inBlogs

How the 1968 DNC protests in Chicago ‘killed’ protest folk singer Phil Ochs

by Ryan Smith August 25, 2018August 18, 2021

Fifty years ago, Phil Ochs performed at the bloody and chaotic protests in Lincoln Park and left a changed and broken man.

Posted inArts & Culture

Will the music finally stop at one of the state’s oldest record stores?

by Ryan Smith May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Recycled Records features 30,000 records for as little as $2 each, but its owners are ready to move on.

Posted inBlogs

Ten great photos taken during the heyday of the blues

by Dave Newbart April 17, 2018August 18, 2021

Images of Muddy Waters, James Cotton, and Bob Dylan are among 1,000 searchable photos by Raeburn Flerlage that are now online.

Posted inMusic

Blues drummer Sam Lay has made five careers’ worth of music

by Steve Krakow February 26, 2018January 31, 2022

Sharp-dressed drummer Sam Lay has played with Dylan and Howlin’ Wolf, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Posted inMusic

Gifts that sing—are you listening?

by Peter Margasak November 29, 2017August 18, 2021

The best best box sets of 2017 include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of live vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.

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