From the mid-80s till the mid-90s, country music went through what Robbie Fulks calls an “integrity explosion.” As if to make up for the middle-of-the-road Urban Cowboy era directly preceding those years, a bunch of traditionalists and iconoclasts suddenly began coming through the door, including Marty Stuart, Steve Earle, and Dwight Yoakam. Even better, these […]
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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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Reader’s Agenda Wed 2/26: The How and the Why, Metal Church, and Johnny Cash tribute night
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, February 26
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 12/24: 12 Days of Porn and Chicken, Rockin Christmas Eve, and a holiday sale
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, December 24
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Introducing scary eyes herself, Jewel Carter Cash
Lifetime’s biopic Ring of Fire doesn’t quite do June Carter Cash justice
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Artist on Artist: Honky-tonk torch carrier Dale Watson talks to local country journeyman Lawrence Peters
Artist on Artist: Honky-tonk torch carrier Dale Watson talks to local country journeyman Lawrence Peters
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Dale Watson inhabits the 50s sound of Memphis
Austin honky-tonk true believer Dale Watson, who plays Martyrs’ on Friday, celebrates Johnny Cash and Sun Studio
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Rihanna, Chris Brown, and pop music’s female trouble
Whether the subject is contraception or M.I.A.’s middle finger, America wants to keep women in line
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Short takes on recent reissues
Overlooked Malian master Sorry Bamba, a box set devoted to songwriter Mickey Newbury, and Ottoman-American treasures from the jazz age
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Sonic Orphans
Bill Daniel screens films of The Beatles, The Avengers, The Huns, Boy Problems, Sonic Youth and Butthole Surfers, Sunday at the Nightingale.
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I hear that twain a-comin’
You know how some cover versions are so good that they effectively steal the song from the original artist? Like when Jimmy Hendrix did “All Along the Watchtower” or Duran Duran did “911 Is a Joke”? (Kidding.) Well Johnny Cash just got his legend-of-country-music ass pwned by an androgynous five-year-old boy named Wesley. I will […]
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The sickness unto election day: For all those who want to profile and pose
A handy guide to all who would denounce, renounce, disapprove, and reject: the Chicagoland spectrum of political castigation.