Jacob Long has been knee-deep in the DIY punk underground over the past two decades, spending time in a couple of beloved bands. In the early aughts, Long doled out a batshit-crazy mess of postpunk and free jazz with his pals in the way-too-short-lived Dischord Records outfit Black Eyes before jetting from D.C. to San […]
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Kranky partners with Ambient Church to celebrate its 25th birthday in the city of its birth
Update 12.06.18: Windy & Carl will no longer be performing at this event due to a family emergency. Matt Jencik has been added to play an opening set. The drifting, beatless songs and subtly abraded electronic textures of Labradford’s 1993 LP Prazision were a shot across the bow of corporate grunge, indie rock, and pretty […]
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Disappears debut a track from their upcoming LP
The spacey local act has a new record coming out early next year.
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12 O’Clock Track: Let’s stay indoors and listen to Tim Hecker
“Hatred of Music I,” from 2011’s Ravedeath, 1972, sounds pretty good right now.
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Kranky turns 20 and cranks it up over the next four nights
Artists from the label’s current and old roster convene in Chicago.
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Kranky’s 20 uncompromising years
As Kranky turns 20, its cofounder shares the label’s five most overlooked Chicago releases.
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Erectoral Politics
Meet your new mayor, Cynthia Plaster Caster. Plus: Steve Shelley, honorary Chicagoan, Svenonius on Nation of Ulysses reunion rumors, and more.
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Belated Recs: The Atlas Sound, With Broadcast Monday at the Bottom Lounge
Review of the new album by Bradford Cox’s solo project, Atlas Sound
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The old-fashioned analog drones of Gregg Kowalsky
Oakland drone master Greg Kowalsky does multichannel analog the old-fashioned way.