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 […]
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Fall for Wisconsin singer-songwriter Pat Keen’s ‘What We Like and Who We Are’
It’s off the new album, Leaving, which Chicago label Lake Paradise recently released on cassette.
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Our favorite music of 2014
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.
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Gossip Wolf: Jimmy Whispers throws a basketball tournament to benefit CeaseFire
Jimmy Whispers’s basketball tournament for CeaseFire, suburban death metal from Starkill, and Fred Schneider of the B-52s at the Fall Ball
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New music and a release show from local avant-pop act Mines
Bill Satek’s project releases a new split single and plays a release show tomorrow.
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Our favorite music of 2013
Six Reader writers, 12 months, 30 picks—and not one list that just rearranges the same records you’ll see everywhere else
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Paper Mice bid farewell to bassist Adam McCormack
Local math-rock trio say goodbye to their bass player this Friday at the Burlington.
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Gossip Wolf: Holiday benefits for homeless women and toyless kids
Holiday benefits for homeless women and toyless kids, a lineup change in Paper Mice, and more
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Listen closely to Jimmy Whispers
His street art and love songs have a powerful antiviolence subtext—and his Summer in Pain Festival benefits CeaseFire.
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Just another local band on a court TV show
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.
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Bill Satek of Mines goes to court
Bill Satek of Mines appears on today’s episode of Judge Mathis.
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Best shows to see: Gunplay, Nicole Mitchell, Jody, Mines
Your live-music options also include Do-Division, Robyn Hitchcock, Devendra Banhart, Bolt Thrower, and more.
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Reader exclusive: Album stream of Mines’ Just Another Thing That Got Ruined
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.