Chicago singer-songwriter Chris Connelly regularly releases an album of new material on his November birthday. For his latest record, Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute to the Music and Mystique of Nico, he hit that annual deadline with the digital version on Bandcamp, but the physical edition (a deluxe double CD) didn’t ship till early December. […]
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John Cale honors his late producer and mentor by helping close the Art Institute’s Warhol exhibit
Avant-rock elder statesman John Cale hasn’t played in Chicago in years, so this show is a hell of an occasion. One of two surviving members of the original Velvet Underground, the Welsh-born musician has had a career spanning more than five decades, and while he’s slowed down his recorded output since reaching his late 70s, […]
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Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent
Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
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Veteran singer-songwriter Susan Werner on the future queen of bluegrass
Current musical obsessions of veteran singer-songwriter Susan Werner, musician and artist Scott Montgomery, and Reader coeditor in chief Karen Hawkins
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The First Family of pinball: Meet the local wizards behind the game’s huge resurgence
America is going full-tilt for pinball again and the resurgence is being led by the sons of a legendary Chicago pinball wizard.
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Music gifts you can actually wrap
Digital downloads haven’t yet driven box sets extinct—and this year the best include Paul Bowles’s Moroccan field recordings, vintage Ray Charles in mono, a 50-year NRBQ retrospective, and ten discs of foundational 40s bebop from Savoy Records.
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You can do better than an iTunes gift card
Perhaps the music lovers in your life would enjoy 23 CDs of the Isley Brothers, two decades of the Staple Singers, or a half century of rural southern sounds from County Records.
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With The Midnight City, Tony Fitzpatrick bids Chicago farewell
Tony Fitzpatrick bids Chicago farewell in The Midnight City, the last in a four-part series.
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Artist on Artist: Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators NYC talks to Little Richie Speck of Tutu & the Pirates
Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators NYC talks to Little Richie Speck of Tutu & the Pirates.
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“Resisterectomy,” “Lunch Drawings,” and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
Your guide to visual arts around the city this weekend.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 12/4: Joe Henry, “Lunch Drawings,” and Speakeasy
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, December 4
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In “Lunch Drawings,” Tony Fitzpatrick mourns a friend: Lou Reed
Lou Reed’s death inspired a change in style for longtime Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
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Delilah’s pays tribute to Lou Reed with a short series of music docs
Noting three upcoming screenings at the Lincoln Park punk bar
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12 O’Clock Track: Listening to Of Montreal, thinking of Lou
“Amphibian Days” rings true in the wake of Reed’s death.
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In Another Country: Hong Sang-soo’s visions and revisions
The South Korean filmmaker’s collaboration with French actress Isabelle Huppert is now available on DVD.