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Danzig Sings Elvis is a covers album we didn’t need
For Glenn Danzig, the past 15 years have been especially weird. Starting with the infamous 2004 backstage TKO punch delivered by North Side Kings singer Danny Marianino, the Misfits mastermind—in his heyday one of the most enigmatic and distinctive vocalists in punk history—has been on a downward spiral of unintentional self-parody and apparent madness. Every […]
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Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies
It’s the King’s birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!
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Heartbreak Hotel revisits Elvis’s early, prejumpsuit years
Plus all the classic hits you know and love!
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Mr. Rogers meets Mexican drug cartels at the Doc10 documentary festival
Profiles of Elvis Presley (The King) and Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RBG) and new work by Eugene Jarecki (director of Why We Fight) and Mila Turajlic (director of Cinema Komunisto) make their local premieres in this year’s edition.
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Chinese billionaire puts the Vista Tower up for sale, and other Chicago news
Also, Afghan war veteran Miguel Perez Jr. could be deported this week.
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The year’s best box sets, honorable mentions
More gifts for music fiends: Elvis’s very earliest work, spiritual jazz by Pharoah Sanders, underappreciated postpunk by Seattle weirdos the U-Men, and more
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Gifts that sing—are you listening?
The best best box sets of 2017 include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of live vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.
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A contemporary dance group takes on the Summer of Love
The Seldoms look back at the protests, drugs, and music of the 60s.
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Elvis & Nixon gives Presley the upper hand, but it was the president all along
Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey star in this throwaway comedy about the King’s summit with Tricky Dick.
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Elvis impersonator Rick Saucedo released a psychedelic LP in 1978 that collectors have sold for a cool grand
Rick Saucedo looks and sounds like the King, but he’s made his best music when searching for his own voice.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 1/8: Doctor Who trivia, Elvis Fest, and M. Evelina Galang
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, January 8
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The summer jam that’s about to rewrite the Billboard record books
Mariah and Miguel make #beautiful music.
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A Homemade Canon
Loud Family front man Scott Miller picks his favorites from a half century of pop, and his choices are fun to read about even when they’re hard to agree with.
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Legal Blues
Steven Lattimore explores the musical legacy and business struggles of the bluesman behind “Bright Lights, Big City” and “Big Boss Man” in his documentary “The Jimmy Reed Experience.” It screens Tuesday 2/15 at Dominican University, along with a legal panel and jam session.