As Atlanta trio Omni have readied their Sub Pop debut and third LP overall, Networker, I’ve had as much fun parsing the lineage of their sparse, anxiously playful postpunk as I’ve had listening to their catalog. Longtime Reader critic Peter Margasak has compared the band’s sound to the feverish early-80s output of Scottish indie label […]
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Trouble in Mind and Paradise of Bachelors team up for a weekend of the finest indie rock at Trouble in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise, a meeting of the minds between tastemaking Chicago label Trouble in Mind Records and North Carolina’s heady Paradise of Bachelors, takes place over the same weekend as Riot Fest, but this intimate Empty Bottle-based festival offers a musical and philosophical opposite to its sprawling counterpart. There’s no nostalgia, overhyped reunions, or overblown […]
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You might want to avoid the shallow end on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Ryan Duggan.
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Atlanta’s Omni inches toward pop, but a sense of anxiety permeates its twitchy attack
Omni has canceled due to a family emergency. A duo of Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker will headline instead. On its tensile second album, Multi-Task (Trouble in Mind), Atlanta trio Omni continues to serve up wiry postpunk without a wasted gesture, summoning a sound built on twitchy rhythms and lean melodic armatures. Singer and bassist […]
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Five local labels that had excellent years in 2016
These modest Chicago imprints have gotten so good at what they do that they’re shaping music scenes far and wide.
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A Rave for Lazer Crystal
Krautrock, Italo-disco, prog, noise, electro, and house come together in genuine body-moving music.