Ryan Segedi’s portraits of the festival’s artists, taken with portable lights in front of a simple white backdrop in the corner of the press tent, provide a more intimate look at people we’re used to seeing under colored spotlights.
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Riot Fest and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Music Box 70mm Film Festival and more goings-on 9/14-9/16
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Not even 2018 can stop Riot Fest
It’s been a bad year for punks—and for everyone else who hates authoritarianism. But Riot Fest has persevered to bring us Run the Jewels, Blondie, Gary Numan, and 85 more acts.
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Urgh! A Music War and other punk and postpunk new wave cinema
Five films that captured the vibrant, changing pop-music scene of the 1980s.
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Riot Fest announces its first wave of acts for 2018
Riot Fest got Blink-182! Cypress Hill! Blondie! The Jesus Lizard! Liz Phair! Atmosphere! Beck! Cat Power! And . . . the 82-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis?
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Gig poster of the week: A car crash at a Gary Numan show
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Steven Luros Holliday.
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David Yow of Scratch Acid talks to Rob Warmowski of Sirs
David Yow of Scratch Acid talks to Rob Warmowski of Sirs
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This Week in Reader Music
Pelican’s tenth birthday, a Gary Numan Q&A, the Gories, Deerhunter, Suffocation, a Phil Spector movie, Clash sightings, and more
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The List: October 21-27, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Blonde Redhead, Deerhunter, the Gories, the Legendary Pink Dots, Suffocation, and more
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include the A Frames, David Bazan, the English Beat, Gary Numan, Ra Ra Riot, Dax Riggs, Valient Thorr, and Teenage Fanclub.