Chicago DIY rock duo Post Office Winter take an audible joy in playing scruffy, comfortable indie rock whose charming shabbiness feels like an accident they wouldn’t have any other way. The band’s founders, Johnston and Huffman (Jones College Prep juniors who prefer to go by their last names), belong to a local teenage DIY rock […]
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Ganser’s Alicia Gaines on the only way to make Twin Peaks’ music more unsettling
Current musical obsessions of Ganser bassist Alicia Gaines, No Friends zine editor Ray Martinez, and the Reader’s Kevin Warwick
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12 O’Clock Track: Stephen Malkmus, still making pretty good music on “Lariat”
“Lariat,” the first single off of Malkmus’s latest, Wig Out at Jagbags.
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Soundcheck: Majical Cloudz open up at Schubas
We sit down with Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto, the masterminds behind Canadian electronic duo, to talk about life on the road and the group’s beginnings for our ongoing live-video series.
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Saturday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
Saturday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
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Sunday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
Sunday: Previews and live coverage of every band at Pitchfork
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12 O’Clock Track: Times New Viking’s new “Sleep-In” is a noisy-but-catchy return to form
“Sleep-In” is perfect Ohio pop off of Times New Viking’s new EP
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The Ponys Ride Again
Why did one of Chicago’s best-loved garage bands disappear at their peak? And after two years, what’s bringing them back?
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Matador vs. Victory: Beef or Hoax?
Earlier this week the Austin home of Matador Records honcho Gerard Cosloy burned to the ground. The photo he posted on his blog looked grim. Yesterday Cosloy posted this screencap of an e-mail allegedly from Tony Brummel, head of Chicago’s Victory Records, on his blog:
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Class in Session
Pavement is guided by a voice integral to but rarely heard in rock—that of the Privileged White Guy, as played here by Stephen Malkmus. He began with “love” songs set in monied locales like “Here” and “Summer Babe” (the Salinger phase); he’s snapped on hoi polloi pop artists Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots (the […]