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.
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Tim Kinsella’s Friend/Enemy re-emerges after 18 years with koans about America’s nightmare
Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, Tim Kinsella and a coterie of collaborators gathered at Chicago’s Minbal studios to work through their feelings about America’s new nightmare. It took them two days to record an album of solemn, fretful indie rock, and then it took them more than three years to release it. HIH NO/ON […]
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After releasing one of 2019’s best albums, American Football celebrate the 20th anniversary of an iconic emo LP
In fall 2018, user-generated Internet in-joke database Know Your Meme added a page about second-wave emo legends American Football. Funny riffs on the band’s 1999 self-titled debut album and its scene-famous cover art—a green-hued off-center image of the Urbana house where photographer Chris Strong lived at the time—have pervaded Internet emo and indie-rock circles at […]
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Tim Kinsella and Cap’n Jazz harnessed the raw power of their 90s selves at Riot Fest
Kinsella didn’t let age slow him down during two Cap’n Jazz reunion shows at Riot Fest and Bottom Lounge.
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American Football: Accidental rock stars
American Football became heroes to the emo scene after breaking up in obscurity—and 17 years later, they’ve returned with a second album.
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American Football graced the stage at Beat Kitchen on Saturday
. . . and we’ve got the photos to prove it!
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In Rotation: My Gold Mask’s Gretta Rochelle on Omar Souleyman’s ‘psycho percussive festivity’
Current musical obsessions of Oshwa’s Alicia Walter and My Gold Mask’s Gretta Rochelle
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Gossip Wolf: The Owl makes silver apples for its Silver Apples show
Silver apples for the Owl’s Silver Apples show, the CFA’s second annual media mixer, and more.
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Gossip Wolf: Shred Like the Wind
The national air-guitar championship comes to Chicago. Plus: the Whistler takes over Summer Sessions, the Mad Decent Block Party makes big plans for Chicago, and more
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This Week in Reader Music
A Kinsella solo project, cozy performance art, second-wave emo, sweaty garage rockers, and more
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Naissance Man
As Birthmark, Nate Kinsella does it all—and on his new second album, he does it all better.
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Leaked Owl
Qwel and Maker’s collabo trickles out on the ‘net, Box of Baby Birds flies the coop, a Kinsella Watch twofer, and more