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The best Chicago albums of the 2010s
The Reader polled dozens of critics to arrive at an absolutely indisputable ranked list of several hundred records that will definitely not start any arguments.
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Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust
Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust, Sacha Mullin celebrates an earnest, silly new video for an old song, and more.
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Dead Rider come home to push a queasy new single at the Hideout
Dead Rider come home to push a queasy new single at the Hideout, Artie Do Good drops an EP of delicate indie pop and oddball boom-bap, and more.
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Chicago rockers Dead Rider and UK spoken-word artist Paul Williams join up for a weirdly electrifying journey
For nearly a decade, Chicago’s Dead Rider have devoted their genius to the underground rock scene; they’ve made five albums and each release has been a remarkable occasion. Their new one, Dead Rider Trio Featuring Mr. Paul Williams (Drag City, out October 19), is a collaboration with London-based spoken-word artist and experimental musician Williams that […]
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The Jesus Lizard live and in color
Bobby Talamine photographed the greatest rock show in Chicago since the last time the Jesus Lizard played in Chicago.
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Dead Rider show delicious cracks of mental instability on their slickest, most disturbing album yet, Crew Licks
The unctuous lounge-lizard croon that marks the singing of Dead Rider’s Todd Rittman has started to fray on the group’s fantastic new album, Crew Licks (Drag City), as if to suggest that his sinister shadiness is getting tangled within his own web of deceit. As usual, it’s often difficult to know exactly what he’s going […]
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Best Art-Rock Band Less Than 30 Years Old
Their perverse grooves provide all the momentum of rock or disco but often frustrate the desire for something stable enough to dance to.
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Check out Pinebender and Hum get all Let It Be at the PRFBBQ
The gigantic music festival takes over Borelli’s dining room, basement, and rooftop this weekend.
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In Rotation: Noah Leger of the Blue Man Group on whipping sheet metal with a chain
Musical obsessions of a Blue Man Group drum tech, Bloodiest’s singer, and a Reader staffer
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Three Beats: Chicago vs. Atlanta on a new cassette comp of local psych
Plus: A transformed Singer returns for a second album, and Parallax Sounds, a doc on Chicago architecture and music, needs your support
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Soundboard: May 5-May 11
Recommended and notable shows, including A-Trak, Baby Dee, Destruction, Neil Young, Calle 13, Jonathan Richman, and more