Pauline Anna Strom’s new album, Angel Tears in Sunlight, features the first new work in 30 years from the legendary Bay Area electronic music composer. Strom made her album debut with 1982’s Trans-Millenia Consort, a limited-edition vinyl and cassette release she’d recorded in her San Francisco home. Despite its humble beginnings, the album has become […]
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DJ Mustard’s lean, mean ratchet party 10 Summers and 14 more record reviews
Ten Reader writers review 15 new records, including Pallbearer’s stately, mournful doom, Willis Earl Beal’s raw, mystical antipop, and Jack Ruby’s staggeringly savage no wave.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Joshua Dumas, composer
Joshua Dumas, composer: “There are a lot of composers who can hear stuff in their mind’s ear, but I’m not one of them.”
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Jason Moran builds a bigger bandwagon
Theaster Gates and Ken Vandermark join pianist Jason Moran in an oral history of their evolving Chicago collaboration Looks of a Lot.
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Lily Allen’s almost annoyingly catchy Sheezus and 15 more record reviews
This month’s stack of record reviews will get you better acquainted with Ben Frost’s defibrillating body music, Dawn Golden’s alchemical electro-pop, and lots more.
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David Grubbs on the meaning of records
David Grubbs on why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.
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Alvin Lucier is sitting in a room (at the MCA)
Composer Alvin Lucier comes to Chicago for a three-day retrospective.
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In Rotation: Cousin Dud’s Dan Schuld on Nina Simone covering Leonard Cohen
Current musical obsessions of Cousin Dud bandmates Dan Schuld and Matt Carmichael
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In Rotation: Composer Marcos Balter on contemporary-classical covers of Kreayshawn and Kesha
Current musical obsessions of composer Marcos Balter and Ensemble dal Niente saxophonist Ryan Muncy
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The People Issue: The B Side
Someone doesn’t have to be famous to be interesting—and that’s just as true in the Chicago music scene as it is anywhere else.
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In Rotation: Matt Clark of White/Light on Nile Rodgers’s winterized boats
Current musical obsessions of White/Light’s Matt Clark and the Mayfair Workshop’s Mark Greenberg
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Danny Brown’s thoughtfully raunchy Old and 15 more record reviews
Eight Reader writers take on 16 albums—including Traxman’s user-friendly footwork.
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A new box set gives experimental composer David Tudor his due
A new box set recognizes experimental composer David Tudor’s pioneering work with electronics and indeterminacy.
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Deerhunter’s dreamily scuzzy Monomania and 14 more record reviews
Reviews of 15 current releases from all over the world of music: Deerhunter, Altar of Plagues, and lots more
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jim Cuomo
Saxophonist and composer Jim Cuomo played experimental psych with Spoils of War and acid folk with Mormos, and now writes for an Australian brass band.