Northern California punk outfit Ceremony have been a vital part of the modern-day hardcore scene since their 2005 inception, but they’ve spent much of their career pushing as hard as possible to sound like anything but a hardcore band. Their earliest stuff was super aggressive, powerviolence-inspired hardcore, but by the early 2010s they’d begun making […]
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Tomorrow Never Knows announces its 2017 lineup
Big names playing the 2017 edition of winter festival Tomorrow Never Knows include Tortoise, BadBadNotGood, Beth Stelling, Title Fight, and Open Mike Eagle.
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Ganser’s Alicia Gaines on the only way to make Twin Peaks’ music more unsettling
Current musical obsessions of Ganser bassist Alicia Gaines, No Friends zine editor Ray Martinez, and the Reader’s Kevin Warwick
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Anna von Hausswolff and Noveller bring dark, moody beauty to Schubas tonight
There’s something impressively harrowing and dark behind the beautiful sounds produced by the Swedish singer and the New York guitarist
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This week on the B Side
The nonthreat of Tumblr, El-P and Million Dollar Mano talking rap music, our guide to CIMMfest, and more
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Spotify playlist: Rock with a 70 percent chance of keyboards
The past, the future, and nine songs to hear on Spotify
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Six short plays expose private lives to public places
The chief advantage to staging a play in a nontheatrical public place—a restaurant, a parking garage, in front of a urinal trough at Wrigley Field—is the place’s ready-made sense of atmosphere. To state the obvious, directors, designers, and actors don’t have to create the illusion of being at a restaurant if they’re actually, you know, […]
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The Best of the Rest This Weekend
Other notable shows this weekend include the English Beat at Double Door, KEN Mode at Metal Shaker, Secret Colours at the Beat Kitchen, and Ceremony at Ronny’s.