Neptunian Maximalism’s recent triple album, Éons, imagines a future Earth dominated by hyperintelligent elephants.
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Noise-rock masters Uniform get even bigger, better, and darker on Shame
I’ve spent a lot of Reader ink gushing about Uniform and the previous projects of their members. With the release of their new fourth full-length, Shame, the band’s sonic assault continues—and so does my adoration. Formed in 2014 as a wildly abrasive industrial-noise-rock-drone duo of vocalist Michael Berdan (formerly of unreal noisecore trio Drunkdriver) and […]
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Chicago’s Plague of Carcosa make dense, cosmic-horror doom
Carcosa is a mysterious fictional city first named by author Ambrose Bierce in 1886 and later alluded to in Robert W. Chambers’s influential and evocative King in Yellow stories. As the ancient and possibly cursed capital of an alien place that’s impossible to pinpoint on earthly maps, it’s been incorporated into the works of H.P. […]
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Michael Zerang explores time, tone, and light with a musical coffin from Moby-Dick
This weekend Chicago percussionist Michael Zerang plays an instrument called Queequeg’s Coffin with a string quartet for the drone piece Follow the Light.
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TALsounds steps into the same river twice
To support Love Sick, TALsounds’ biggest album yet, Natalie Chami has learned to replay the beautiful ambient pop songs she improvised to record it.
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Drone artist Nicholas Szczepanik returns with a new surname and a new project
Drone artist Nicholas Szczepanik returns with a new surname and a new project, underground emo supergroup What Gives finally release an album, and more.
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Solo drone project Mind Over Mirrors becomes a five-way collaboration
Jaime Fennelly enriches Mind Over Mirrors with help from an all-star team of Haley Fohr, Janet Bean, Jim Becker, and Jon Mueller.
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Singer-songwriter Adam Gottlieb on an album to fortify fighters for justice
Current musical obsessions of singer-songwriter Adam Gottlieb, blues musician Andy Willis, and Reader writer Leor Galil
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David Yow stars in a brand-new video for Wrekmeister Harmonies
The creepy clip and with the dark ambient project’s new record are released today.
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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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Alex Barnett plays tonight, gets ready to drop brand-new LP
Local synth composer Alex Barnett gets ready to release his new collaborative LP.
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Experimental trio Good Stuff House almost reunites
The Zelienople side project almost gets back together to play its first show in four years as its eponymous 2006 debut gets reissued.
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Chord’s only performance of 2013 features more than one chord
Ambient drone collective Chord play their only show of the year tomorrow. They also play more than one chord.
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Saturday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
Saturday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
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Wire’s gooey-sweet Change Becomes Us and 15 more record reviews
Reviews of 16 fresh releases from all over the map: Wire, Aosoth, Julia Kent, DJ Koze, Pedrito Martinez, Sax G, and lots more