Gossip Wolf has been hip to Chicago rapper and singer Angelenah, aka Ashley Hart and Angel Davanport, ever since she released the 2018 EP Sore but Grateful. She’s been sharpening her skills in the years since, and last week she dropped I Don’t Regret a Thing, which showcases her flamboyant singing across six luscious R&B […]
Tag: Matt Clark
Otherpeace kicks off a Hideout residency to support a restorative, rootsy debut album
In the early months of the pandemic, Wandering Boys banjo player Rob Jensen reached out to Matt Clark (of slowcore trio Pinebender and drone duo White/Light) with an invitation to jam. The music they made together planted the seeds for Clark’s new solo endeavor, Otherpeace, a loose group where he’s backed by Jensen (drums), Pinebender […]
Synth-pop songwriter Warm Human shines even on odds and ends
Gossip Wolf first took a shine to the synth-pop jams of Meredith Johnston, aka Warm Human, when she dropped her standout debut full-length, Ghastly, in 2019. Over the past few years, Johnston has proved impressively prolific, releasing a string of radio-worthy singles and album-length projects whose tone ping-pongs all over the place—she mixes up misty […]
Twenty-four points of view on the band Joan of Arc
Tim Kinsella lets everyone else tell the story of Joan of Arc—entirely in keeping with his long-running group’s embrace of illogic and reinvention.
Disappears, White/Light, and Steve Shelley drop a collaboration recorded 11 years ago
Disappears, White/Light, and Steve Shelley drop a collaboration recorded 11 years ago, two-thirds of Weatherman share their first music since moving to a medieval French village, and more.
Sophie Brochu brings new grandeur to Fauvely’s intimate dream pop
Sophie Brochu brings new grandeur to Fauvely’s intimate dream pop, Leisure Records drops a dose of Italian disco, and more.
Slowcore veterans Pinebender resurrect their original lineup
Slowcore veterans Pinebender resurrect their original lineup, underground rapper Freako celebrates a new mixtape with a jam-packed art show, and more.
Local punks Problem People offer the first taste of their next album with a spooky new video
Problem People’s second LP, as yet untitled, comes out in March on Tic Tac Totally.
Gossip Wolf: One-man pizza party ShowYouSuck celebrates his debut EP
An untamed benefit show for the Rebuilding Exchange, and more
In Rotation: Matt Clark of White/Light on Nile Rodgers’s winterized boats
Current musical obsessions of White/Light’s Matt Clark and the Mayfair Workshop’s Mark Greenberg
In Rotation: Engineer Jason Ward on Grimes’s “Oblivion” video
Current musical delights of Tic Tac Totally founder Matt Clark and Chicago Mastering Service’s Jason Ward
And the winner of the bad-luck jacket is. . .
Matt Clark is the winner of the bad luck jacket
Soundtrack Week: Tic Tac Totally
The garage and punk label Tic Tac Totally kicks off Soundtrack Week
Label founders speak for themselves: Matt Clark, Tic Tac Totally
Label founders speak for themselves: Matt Clark, Tic Tac Totally
A Chord You Can Walk Around In
An installation by local drone duo White/Light sets the Museum of Contemporary Art abuzz.