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Home » Max Allison

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Posted inMusic

Mukqs documents pandemic living on My Most Personal Album to Date

by Leor Galil February 11, 2021August 18, 2021

The multifarious outlets of Chicago experimental musician Maxwell Allison include the solo project Mukqs and the improvisational ambient trio Good Willsmith, whose Twitter account he uses to opine about music. His incisive comments on the granular details of his daily listening make it clear he’s had the experience of loving a song while hating how […]

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Good Willsmith return with an acid-fried live album

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil January 19, 2021August 18, 2021

Good Willsmith return with an acid-fried live album, Cinchel drops an ambient cassette that doubles as an art object, and more.

Posted inMusic

Chicago rock pranksters BBsitters Club can party with the best riffers around

by Leor Galil October 10, 2020August 18, 2021

In 2012, Chicago musicians Max Allison and Doug Kaplan launched the eclectic label Hausu Mountain, which has grown into one of the city’s best indies. It also acts as an umbrella for many of its founders’ projects: Hausu Mountain has released the ambient-adjacent sounds Allison and Kaplan have made with Natalie Chami (aka TALsounds) as […]

Posted inMusic

Fire-Toolz captures the many colors of the rainbow bridge

by Noah Berlatsky May 5, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago experimentalist Angel Marcloid tries to contain the fractured emotional spectrum of loss with an album for her dead cat.

Posted inMusic

When Christmas music passes beyond human comprehension

by Noah Berlatsky December 4, 2019August 18, 2021

As Pepper Mill Rondo, Max Allison and Doug Kaplan find the horrifying and the sublime in holiday kitsch.

Posted inMusic

TALsounds steps into the same river twice

by Peter Margasak May 30, 2017August 18, 2021

To support Love Sick, TALsounds’ biggest album yet, Natalie Chami has learned to replay the beautiful ambient pop songs she improvised to record it.

Posted inMusic

Five local labels that had excellent years in 2016

by Kevin Warwick December 22, 2016August 18, 2021

These modest Chicago imprints have gotten so good at what they do that they’re shaping music scenes far and wide.

Posted inMusic

Beat Kitchen hosts a panel to confront sexual harassment in music

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil September 13, 2016August 18, 2021

Beat Kitchen hosts a panel to confront sexual harassment in music, 606 Records books 24 hours of DJs to benefit Lumpen Radio, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Let TALsounds take you All the Way

by Leor Galil May 22, 2015August 18, 2021

Local experimental musician Natalie Chami prepares to drop All the Way, a doozy, moody cassette she recorded as TALsounds.

Posted inBlogs

Fall for the warped, delicate folk of Eartheater’s ‘Homonyms’

by Leor Galil March 4, 2015August 18, 2021

It’s not quite folk, and that’s part of what makes this song from Guardian Alien front woman Alexandra Drewchin so enchanting.

The covers of all four of the Hausu Mountain label's new Mugen Series cassettes
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Gossip Wolf: More one-take split cassettes from Hausu Mountain

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil May 21, 2014August 18, 2021

More one-take split cassettes from Hausu Mountain, a new long-distance LP from Slushy, and more

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