Local sound artist Olivia Block has created most of her albums with years of painstaking work in her home studio, so you might not expect that lockdown life would bring about profound changes in her music. But Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea, released this month by Room40, is unlike anything else in her discography. […]
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Bandcamp Friday returns for 2021
You can jump-start your Bandcamp Friday browsing with nearly 100 newly Reader-recommended releases.
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Percussionist Jon Mueller finds a new way of working by digging through his past
When COVID-19 shut down live music last March, Jon Mueller was among the many musicians who found himself with an empty schedule. The Wisconsin-based percussionist found some time during lockdown to clean out his closet, where he found a box of unmarked CD-Rs that bore recorded evidence of music he’d made in the past and […]
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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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Jon Mueller and Mike Weis meditate with drums at the Zen Buddhist Temple-Chicago
In paired solo sets this Saturday, Jon Mueller and Mike Weis will use drums and gongs to draw out the acoustic qualities of a Zen temple.
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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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Ambient artist Volutes on a disco-tinged critique of neoliberalism
Current musical obsessions of experimental ambient artists Cinchel and Volutes and Reader music editor Philip Montoro
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The gig poster of the week towers above the desert
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Daniel MacAdam of Crosshair screen printing.
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Now Is Podcast host Ben Remsen on the jazz giants who walk among us
Current musical obsessions of Axons drummer Amanda Kraus, Now Is Podcast host Ben Remsen, and Reader music editor Philip Montoro
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Three Beats: Buy Chrissy Murderbot’s record collection, Buried at Sea plays Alehorn of Power, and Utech and Okka Disk throw parties in Milwaukee
DANCE | For sale: Chrissy Murderbot’s record collection Local electronic producer Chris Shively, aka Chrissy Murderbot, who runs the labels Sleazetone and Loose Squares, is slimming down his record collection. Last Monday he put about 90 percent of it, which works out to more than 700 pieces, up for sale at online music catalog and […]
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Saturday’s loud listening
Milwaukee percussionist Jon Mueller plays the Hideout; Peter Brotzmann and his electric trio Full Blast hit the Empty Bottle.