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Buddhist teacher Lama Lobsang Palden and local multi-instrumentalist Jim Becker partner to make healing sounds
Ten years ago, Jim Becker sought out yoga and meditation teacher Lama Lobsang Palden, hoping to find physical and spiritual healing. But at the end of their first encounter, Palden told the local multi-instrumentalist that they should make an album together. Three years later, they began the protracted process that resulted in the new Drag […]
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Indie-rock sidemen Jim Becker and Joe Adamik partner up in Lanzón
Jim Becker and Joe Adamik are resolute sidemen and longtime fixtures of Chicago’s live-music scene. The former often plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo in rootsy settings, both straight and twisted, while the latter appears most often these days drumming with jazz and improvisational combos. Their partnership began in 2000, when they were both members of […]
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The forgotten story of the self-described ‘butt-ugliest band in Chicago’
Weirdo roots band the Dysfunctionells, fronted by Rich Krueger and Vernon Tonges, got closest to fame when they backed Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders in the mid-90s.
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The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP
The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP, an all-star Chicago crew plays Black Sabbath and Abba at the same Halloween show, and more.
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Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors premieres its immersive new multimedia opus Bellowing Sun at the MCA
Mind Over Mirrors will not only give three performances at the museum but also release a stunning recording of the music from the project on April 6.
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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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‘Anglo-Naive’ guitarist C Joynes plays his first U.S. show at the Empty Bottle
C Joynes takes fingerpicked guitar in all sorts of directions—bluegrass, blues, folk, drone, gospel, African music—with production that borrows ideas from dub.
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Gossip Wolf: Who’s in Elia Einhorn’s Fashion Brigade?
A new project from Scotland Yard Gospel Choir’s Elia Einhorn, new bands with folks from Bloodiest and Fake Limbs, and more
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Gossip Wolf: Brooklyn band Go Deep want their stolen gear back
Brooklyn band Go Deep want their stolen gear back, the Whistler gives away the last of 1,000 free LPs, and more.
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7/14 — Judson Claiborne & Six Sherpas at the Empty Bottle
Alt-country band Judson Claiborne & Six Sherpas play a free show at the Empty Bottle.