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Home » Frank Leone

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Posted inMusic

Time to jump on the Bandcamp stuff you’ve been waiting to buy

by Leor Galil September 30, 2020August 18, 2021

Once again, it’s “Bandcamp day”—when almost all your money goes to the artists and labels you want to support.

Posted inMusic

Frank Leone’s hip-hop experiments make for a beautifully bizarre debut album

by Leor Galil September 10, 2020August 18, 2021

Rapper-producer Frank Leone grew up in the town of Monticello, just southwest of Champaign, and began taking music seriously after a chance meeting with Vic Mensa at a downstate Lupe Fiasco show in 2011. Since dropping his debut mixtape in 2015, he’s reworked his sound, moved to Los Angeles, and scrubbed the Web of large […]

Posted inBlogs

Rapper-producer Frank Leone recruits Monster Mike for his relaxed, glistening new single

by Leor Galil October 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Onetime Chicagoan Frank Leone revisits “Cocaine for Kids,” an instrumental he initially made for rapper-producer Lucki Ecks.

Posted inBlogs

Malcolm London broadens the Chicago hip-hop scene with ‘I’mPossible’

by Leor Galil October 21, 2015August 18, 2021

The activist, poet, and educator officially adds “rapper” to his growing CV, and the scene is better for it.

Posted inArts & Culture

Ten cool things to do in Chicago in July

by Reader staff July 7, 2015August 18, 2021

What to do now that summer is officially here

Posted inBlogs

Carve out some ‘Me Time’ for the Odd Couple’s new album

by Leor Galil July 1, 2015August 18, 2021

The soul-heavy single “Me Time” is one of the finer moments from the producer’s new debut full-length.

Posted inBlogs

Up-and-coming rapper Frank Leone discusses his debut full-length, Enter Wild

by Leor Galil March 11, 2015August 18, 2021

The 19-year-old talks about the influence of Vic Mensa, Chicago violence, and Phantom of the Opera.

Posted inBlogs

Listen to rapper-singer Noname Gypsy’s ‘Cherrypie Blues,’ off the new cassette compilation from Two Syllable Records

by Leor Galil November 6, 2014August 18, 2021

This lovely, woozy ditty appears on Chicago Cassette Compilation: Volume 2, which comes out on Tuesday.

Posted inBlogs

Frank Leone’s star is one to watch in the constellation of Chicago hip-hop

by Leor Galil October 22, 2014August 18, 2021

And his new B side cut, “0​-​Ahaaaaa,” is a great example of why you should pay attention.

The cover of Surachai's Ritual, starring his Cwej­man S1 MK2 analog synthesizer
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Surachai’s scary semimodular synth

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil June 4, 2014August 18, 2021

Surachai’s scary semimodular synth, the Empty Bottle’s silly staff podcast, and more

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