Few pop acts are quite as prepared to engage with climate change as Chicago’s Air Credits. Since 2016, rapper ShowYouSuck (aka Clinton Sandifer) and producer Steve Reidell (half of the Hood Internet) have turned dystopian nightmares into strangely joyful songs. There’s catharsis to be found in these missives from a future where oxygen is a […]
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Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box
Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box, the Synthesizer-Chili Cookoff signs off with its tenth installment, and more.
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Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust
Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust, Sacha Mullin celebrates an earnest, silly new video for an old song, and more.
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Chicago neck breakers Nequient hit the road behind their scorching debut full-length
Nequient hit the road behind their scorching debut full-length, Dark Matter Coffee expands its annual block party to two days, and more.
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Geoff Farina from Karate busts some new moves in the power trio Exit Verse
Geoff Farina from Karate busts some new moves in the power trio Exit Verse, the Hood Internet throw a cookie party at the Hideout, and more.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 5/16: Manifest Urban Arts Festival, The Inspector and the Prince, and Owls
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, May 16
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Chicago Mixtape turns three this weekend
Chicago Mixtape celebrates its third birthday this weekend with a massive fund-raiser blowout.
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Alex Wiley opens Club Wiley
The Closed Sessions marquee rapper dropped his debut yesterday, and its experimental, maximalist pop sound is part of what makes it so endearing.
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Gig poster of the week: a Black Moth Super Rainbow and a terrifying gremlin
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by Kentucky-based silkscreen collective Print Mafia.
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New Year’s Eve Guide 2012
Our picks for the best places to be when the ball drops
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Soundtrack Week: A mix from Whistler Records
The Whistler is a record label too, and it sent along the next mix for Soundtrack Week
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Gossip Wolf: Parasol folds halfway
Parasol shutters its store and distro, Pancho’s goes upmarket, and more
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The Hood Internet, Netherfriends, the Eternals, and more great local music at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival
The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival returns to Logan Square this weekend (Fri-Sun 7/29-7/31), presenting a dazzling variety of art and music to showcase the neighborhood’s diversity. The fest’s three music stages feature lots of local heavy hitters: performers on the main stage, located at the Illinois Centennial Monument (2595 N. Milwaukee), include JC Brooks & the Uptown […]
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Gossip Wolf: Return to Oz
Permanent reissues a classic Chicago punk comp. Plus: Claychella’s last dance, the Hood Internet’s threesome, and more
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The Hideout’s SXSW Bon Voyage
This Saturday the Hideout is throwing its fourth annual SXSW send-off to help benefit local bands on their journeys to Austin.