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Beloved DIY space Situations signs off with a Halloween livestream
Beloved DIY space Situations signs off with a Halloween livestream, and Angel Marcloid drops an album of fizzy jazz fusion as Nonlocal Forecast.
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Remembering Chicago music champion Christen Thomas
Christen Thomas booked shows for a decade with the Empty Bottle and Metro teams, but that work was just the beginning of the love, joy, and support she showered on the local scene.
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Magic Ian of Maximum Pelt on mixtape releases that feel like personal gifts
Current musical obsessions of Adam Schubert from Cafe Racer, Magic Ian of the Maximum Pelt label, and Reader staff writer Leor Galil
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Bill Cipher really let himself go on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist and musician Joe Schorgl.
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On High Anxiety, Oozing Wound are saltier than ever
On their brand-new fourth full-length, High Anxiety (Thrill Jockey), Chicago’s Oozing Wound have finally reached peak ooze. Formed in October 2011 by three Chicago noise rockers with a taste for heavy metal, Oozing Wound have come to be loved for their salty lyrics as much as for their off-kilter take on breakneck thrash. Kicking off […]
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A non-regulation BattleBot on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist Bill Connors, also of the band Dim.
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A highly unprofessional trepanation on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Bill Connors.
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Whitney Johnson works to remystify music as Matchess
Chicago violist, singer, and organist Whitney Johnson completes her Matchess Trilogy with the occult healing songs of the new Sacracorpa.
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The best live metal of 2016
Metal shows remain a great way to drive hostile occupiers out of your head—whether you prefer the bitter catharsis of False or the galloping rush of Tengger Cavalry.
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A skull splits itself on the gig poster of the week
This week’s gig poster is by local artist Bill Connors, and it’s for an Oozing Wound record-release show that his band Dim opens.
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Chicago rockers Rabble Rabble hang it up after nine years
Chicago rockers Rabble Rabble hang it up after nine years, Rainbo hosts a musician-heavy art exhibit dishonoring Trump, and more.
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Sweden’s Scorched Tundra metal festival debuts in Chicago in September—and tickets go on sale today
The first local installment of Scorched Tundra will host heaviness by the likes of Bongripper, Monolord, and False.
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Monday marks Oozing Wound’s final show with founding drummer Kyle Reynolds
The thrash revivalists are already on the hunt for a new drummer.
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New York City noise-rock unit Conduit release their first demo
New band Conduit features members of White Suns and Twin Stumps.