Current musical obsessions of veteran singer-songwriter Susan Werner, musician and artist Scott Montgomery, and Reader coeditor in chief Karen Hawkins
Tag: LSD
‘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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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
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.
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.
Austin Pendleton goes time-tripping back to Skidoo
The Steppenwolf ensemble member recalls making an LSD comedy with Groucho Marx.
A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap at Metro
Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap, Disappears play Rainbo, and more
Local profile: Josh Howard of Pioneer Tattoo
Josh Howard stands out in this city’s crowded tattoo game