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Polymath Damon Locks honors a heritage of Black culture and resistance
In a 2016 interview for Lewis University’s online arts journal, Jet Fuel Review, Chicago polymath Damon Locks spoke about running into celebrated artist Kerry James Marshall in a local comic book store. Locks, a vocalist, musician, and visual and video artist, was gratified to discover that they share the habit of checking out the comics, […]
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Angel Bat Dawid taps into the root of all black music
Chicago singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid talks about the improvisation and inspiration that shaped her new album, The Oracle.
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‘The Long Term’ uses art to connect Stateville prisoners to the outside world
“A lot of people don’t think about how long-term sentencing creates a long-term struggle for freedom and a long-term loss in communities.”
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Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise
Flutist Nicole Mitchell brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.
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Music, movement, and politics take root at the MCA Dance Fest
Tamar-kali’s Demon Fruit Blues and Damon Locks’s Where Future Unfolds use the black musical heritage to explore contemporary problems.
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Eternals front man Damon Locks creates a ‘sound essay’ at the MCA
Eternals front man Damon Locks creates a “sound essay” at the MCA, Deanna Belos plays a belated release party for her Sincere Engineer project, and more.
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Gossip Wolf: You get one guess what sort of noise Georgia O’Queef makes
A new demo from powerviolence squad Georgia O’Queef, a new video from emo goofs Churchkey, and more
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At the Hull-House Museum, artwork made while doing time
Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences.
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Gossip Wolf: More Pitchfork lineup predictions!
More Pitchfork lineup predictions, a new album in installments from Redgrave, and more
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A tailor-made interior in Logan Square
Fashion designer Jamie Hayes allows her day job to influence her decorating eye.
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival paints a portrait of the Chicago scene
With 32 acts at 11 venues, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival paints a portrait of the Chicago scene.
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In Rotation: Jeanine O’Toole of Bare Mutants on how to commemorate Jerry Garcia’s deathiversary
Current musical obsessions of Bare Mutants vocalist Jeanine O’Toole, and Eternals front man Damon Locks
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A Chicago music documentary without the music
The documentary Parallax Sounds is about the Chicago underground music scene of the 90s, but you’ll hardly hear any of the music.
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This week on the B Side
Bye-bye to Megaupload and some LA-bound Chicagoans, hello to new music from Calez and Rockie Fresh, and more