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Saxophonist Gene Barge helped shape the sound of Chicago R&B

by Steve Krakow April 22, 2021August 18, 2021

Gene Barge has done his most influential work as a sideman or producer, but he’s just as important as any of R&B’s marquee stars.

Film

Ben Sachs’s top 12 films of 2019

by Ben Sachs December 17, 2019August 18, 2021

Yes, there are some ties.

Film

Hustlers focuses on women doing horrible things for understandable reasons

by Leah Pickett September 12, 2019August 18, 2021

In Lorene Scafaria’s latest, women take control of their lives by exploiting finance bros who exploit the common man.

Music

Brokedowns drummer Mustafa Daka on the greatest heavy-hitting drummer alive

by Luca Cimarusti January 28, 2019August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of Brokedowns drummer Mustafa Daka, Rad Payoff guitarist Jason Smith, and Reader music listings coordinator Luca Cimarusti

Blogs

Jean-Pierre Melville’s brooding cinema surveyed on FilmStruck

by Patrick Friel July 31, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck presents the films of influential French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.

Blogs

Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen

by Patrick Friel July 24, 2018August 18, 2021

Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room

Film

You Were Never Really Here updates Taxi Driver to an even colder urban landscape

by Leah Pickett April 12, 2018August 18, 2021

In the latest from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Joaquin Phoenix plays a hit man who specializes in rescuing child prostitutes.

Music

Blues drummer Sam Lay has made five careers’ worth of music

by Steve Krakow February 26, 2018January 31, 2022

Sharp-dressed drummer Sam Lay has played with Dylan and Howlin’ Wolf, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.