Current musical obsessions of veteran singer-songwriter Susan Werner, musician and artist Scott Montgomery, and Reader coeditor in chief Karen Hawkins
Tag: LSD
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‘This is a march of civil disobedience’ [PHOTOS]
On the ground at the August 2 protest that shut down Lake Shore Drive on its way to Wrigley Field.
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Jamila Woods and Kevin Coval collaborate with Vinyl for a Cause to benefit Young Chicago Authors
Woods contributed a song inspired by a Coval poem about the blues going electric, and Coval enlisted Tasha for a wintertime answer to Woods’s “LSD.”
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Reader critic uncovers the secret purpose of Teletubbies
The British children’s show, wrote Lee Sandlin, “is the most blatant piece of prodrug propaganda since Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception.”
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Jamila Woods includes Chicago schoolkids, joyful blackness, and a backyard barbecue in her video for ‘LSD’
For her new video, soul singer Jamila Woods collaborated with Chance the Rapper, VAM studios, and a group of CPS students—one of whom created the treatment for the clip.
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Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece
Current musical obsessions of Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak, Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party and Montrose Man, and the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti
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Soul singer Jamila Woods makes music about black womanhood that speaks to everyone
Jamila Woods’s stunning solo debut, Heavn, offers a healing elixir of “black girl magic” to help us imagine a path through troubled times.
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Cosmic Body: a trance-inducing dance experience, sans the purple haze
Norwegian choreographer Ingri Fiksdal brings her trippy quartet Cosmic Body to the MCA this weekend.
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Austin Pendleton goes time-tripping back to Skidoo
The Steppenwolf ensemble member recalls making an LSD comedy with Groucho Marx.
Posted inArts & Culture
A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
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Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap at Metro
Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap, Disappears play Rainbo, and more
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Local profile: Josh Howard of Pioneer Tattoo
Josh Howard stands out in this city’s crowded tattoo game