The Shadows and the Light, the new album from Chicago drummer Quin Kirchner, is an eclectic collection of freewheeling studio performances with a diverse range of sounds. On its second track, “Batá Chop,” the album features influences of West African batá drum and traces of Afro-Cuban drumming (which Kirchner learned as a teenager while studying […]
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Overlooked guitar god Harvey Mandel borrows Ryley Walker’s band for his new album
Forty-seven years after Harvey Mandel played Woodstock with Canned Heat, Snake Pit could be the record that finally gets the guitarist his due.
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Mitski: ‘I don’t belong anywhere. That really affects how I write songs.’
On the eve of a tour to support her breakout record, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, this Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter talks to Brian Sulpizio of Health & Beauty.
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Guitarist Ryley Walker lets go of the reins on the unruly but pastoral Primrose Green
He’s tried punk, noise, and Fahey-style fingerpicking, but he’s about to reach his biggest audience yet with the jazzy, open-ended folk-rock on his new album.
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Best Soundtrack for Staring Into the Void
A folk chanteuse who soulfully sublimates her noisy past into transcendent performances full of pained howls and delicate melodies
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Just another local band on a court TV show
Last week local recording engineer Brian Sulpizio sued Mines’ main man Bill Satek on Judge Mathis, and that clip is finally on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
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Bill Satek of Mines goes to court
Bill Satek of Mines appears on today’s episode of Judge Mathis.
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Reader exclusive: Album stream of Mines’ Just Another Thing That Got Ruined
Plus a Q&A with front man Bill Satek to learn more about the band’s beginnings, his career as a pipe fitter, and his youthful days spent waiting for Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.
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In Rotation: John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey on vintage dead-stock vinyl from Kenya
Current musical obsessions of John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey and filmmaker Brian Ashby