Three years into the pandemic, practically everyone is grappling with some sort of loss. The circumstances are individual, of course, but we’re basically all facing the same questions: How do you grieve without letting grief destroy you? How do you honor the memory of departed people and vanished places while still pushing forward into new […]
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Dave Gahan & Soulsavers refresh familiar tunes on Imposter
If you’ve followed much of Dave Gahan’s career, “subtle” and “understated” probably wouldn’t be the first words you’d use to describe his style or sound. As lead singer of pioneering synth-pop outfit Depeche Mode, he’s one of the most iconic front men of the past four decades, with a larger-than-life baritone voice that’s as darkly […]
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On Interior Terror, Chicago industrial duo Hide find everyday horrors in the corporeal and immaterial
The term “minimalism” often conjures up white walls and bright lights—a defiant barrenness in a world steeped in chaos—but Chicago-based industrial duo Hide take their stark sounds to a far darker and more malevolent space. On the new Interior Terror, multi-instrumentalist Seth Sher (Coughs, Ga’an) and singer and visual artist Heather Gabel don’t attempt anything […]
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John Becker of Vaskula on the best gothic rock being recorded today
Current musical obsessions of Vaskula’s John Becker, Plague Bringer’s Greg Ratajczak, and the Reader’s Philip Montoro
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Spirit isn’t a classic Depeche Mode album, but it’ll do
Released this past March, Spirit was heralded by AllMusic as Depeche Mode’s finest album since 2005’s Playing the Angel. A textbook case of damning with faint praise, but maybe the best we can hope for from Depeche Mode is a pretty good LP, not an actually great one, every decade or so. True, the leaden […]
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Sunset Records’ house has many rooms
Kill Yourself Dancing collects the daringly eclectic output of late-80s Chicago house-music label Sunset Records.
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Gossip Wolf: Cassette Store Day is definitely silly but might be fun
Gossip Wolf: Two fun Cassette Store Day events to distract you from the nonexistence of “cassette stores,” a second LP for dark dance-rock duo Post Honeymoon, and more.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Soothe My Soul,” another silly Depeche Mode song
The synth-pomp group drop the first single off Delta Machine, their forthcoming album
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Gossip Wolf: Sniffing out the Lollapalooza lineup
Gossip Wolf guesses who’ll play Lollapalooza, Saki hosts Low and Jeff Tweedy, and more
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Gossip Wolf: A flood of new tapes from Teen River
New tapes from Teen River, news from superduo Acteurs (Disappears, White/Light), and more.
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Lollapalooza: The View From the Ground
Some of the most compelling action at Lollapalooza was in the crowd.
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Lollapalooza: The Sun Sets on a Muddy Day One
By the time it started to get dark in Grant Park the rain had finally given up completely after a seemingly endless series of fits and starts, and there was an almost palpable sense of relief over it as people started spreading blankets on the drying—at least so they hoped—grass and started working up the […]
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Lollapalooza
Featuring Depeche Mode, Tool, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, Lou Reed, Fleet Foxes, and more, in Grant Park this weekend
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The List, August 6-12, 2009
Critics’ Choices and other notable concerts: Slaid Cleaves, the Warlocks, the Bobby Broom Trio, Bat for Lashes, and more