New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Tag: Marc Bolan
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 4/15: Black Playwrights Festival, Purling Hiss, and Julia Sweeney
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Monday, April 15, 2013
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In Rotation: Photographer Todd Diederich on “demon bass”
Musical obsessions of the Reader‘s Miles Raymer, photographer Todd Diederich, and Young Joon Kwak of Xina Xurner
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Mickey polish their nasty glam till it shines
In the Reader‘s Best of Chicago issue last year, I wrote that I hoped the next “Chicago sound” would turn out to be glammy garage, pointing out two reasons it might: the already ascendant Smith Westerns and the yet-to-be-discovered Mickey. At the time Mickey had only released a criminally overlooked single on HoZac, “She’s So […]
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Forget cowbell–more tambourine!
Best thing I saw this weekend: batshit T. Rex performance on The Midnight Special.