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Home » Mines

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Famous Laughs
Posted inMusic

Subversive Chicago rock outfit Famous Laughs immerse you in jams on Total Icon

by Leor Galil July 7, 2022July 5, 2022

For more than a decade, Chicago multi-instrumentalist and engineer Jake Acosta has been a key player in a loose federation of subversive musicians. He’s done a lot of crucial work running record labels too: beginning in 2011, he’s released a heap of cassettes via Teen River, and then in 2012 he launched Lake Paradise, which […]

Posted inBlogs

Fall for Wisconsin singer-songwriter Pat Keen’s ‘What We Like and Who We Are’

by Leor Galil August 4, 2015August 18, 2021

It’s off the new album, Leaving, which Chicago label Lake Paradise recently released on cassette.

DJ Rashad
Posted inMusic

Our favorite music of 2014

by Luca Cimarusti, Leor Galil, Sasha Geffen, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer and Philip Montoro December 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Six Reader music writers share their favorites from 2014 with year-end lists that do more than just put the same records in a different order.

Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Jimmy Whispers throws a basketball tournament to benefit CeaseFire

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil October 8, 2014August 18, 2021

Jimmy Whispers’s basketball tournament for CeaseFire, suburban death metal from Starkill, and Fred Schneider of the B-52s at the Fall Ball

Posted inBlogs

New music and a release show from local avant-pop act Mines

by Luca Cimarusti July 24, 2014August 18, 2021

Bill Satek’s project releases a new split single and plays a release show tomorrow.

Posted inMusic

Our favorite music of 2013

by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Philip Montoro, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick and Luca Cimarusti December 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Six Reader writers, 12 months, 30 picks—and not one list that just rearranges the same records you’ll see everywhere else

Posted inBlogs

Paper Mice bid farewell to bassist Adam McCormack

by Luca Cimarusti December 5, 2013August 19, 2021

Local math-rock trio say goodbye to their bass player this Friday at the Burlington.

Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Holiday benefits for homeless women and toyless kids

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil December 4, 2013August 19, 2021

Holiday benefits for homeless women and toyless kids, a lineup change in Paper Mice, and more

Posted inMusic

Listen closely to Jimmy Whispers

by Leor Galil October 28, 2013August 19, 2021

His street art and love songs have a powerful antiviolence subtext—and his Summer in Pain Festival benefits CeaseFire.

Posted inBlogs

Just another local band on a court TV show

by Leor Galil October 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Last week local recording engineer Brian Sulpizio sued Mines’ main man Bill Satek on Judge Mathis, and that clip is finally on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.

Posted inBlogs

Bill Satek of Mines goes to court

by Luca Cimarusti October 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Bill Satek of Mines appears on today’s episode of Judge Mathis.

Posted inBlogs

Best shows to see: Gunplay, Nicole Mitchell, Jody, Mines

by Tosten Burks May 30, 2013August 19, 2021

Your live-music options also include Do-Division, Robyn Hitchcock, Devendra Banhart, Bolt Thrower, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Reader exclusive: Album stream of Mines’ Just Another Thing That Got Ruined

by Leor Galil May 28, 2013October 14, 2022

Plus a Q&A with front man Bill Satek to learn more about the band’s beginnings, his career as a pipe fitter, and his youthful days spent waiting for Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.

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