You don’t have to know Ernest Hood’s 1975 album Neighborhoods to understand what’s going on in the new compilation New Neighborhoods, but it doesn’t hurt. Born in 1923, Hood was a Portland jazz musician who kept up with new recording and production techniques throughout his life, and in 1964 he cofounded the listener-supported Portland radio […]
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Chicago indie rockers Mooner embrace tender reflection on their third album
For more than a decade, Chicago singer-songwriter Lee Ketch has used his band Mooner to perfect an earthy indie-rock sound that draws equally from Americana and power pop. On the group’s new third album, The Alternative Universe of Love (Aerial Ballet), he reflects on his past with an irresistible combination of nostalgia, regret, and forgiveness. […]
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Lord Dying’s Mysterium Tremendum is a beautiful meditation on tragedy
This Portland-based progressive sludge-metal band returned from a lull last year with two new members, bassist-vocalist Alyssa Maucere (formerly of Eight Bells) and drummer Kevin Swartz (of Bottom and Forgotten Gods), and their third full-length, Mysterium Tremendum (eOne). It’s beautiful, but it’s a concept album about death—which makes it either the best thing or the […]
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Spoils of War pioneered the fusion of experimental electronics and psychedelic rock
The late-60s band founded by unheralded composer Jim Cuomo only released one EP during its lifetime.
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Open relationships, squirting, big boobs, butt sex, and more
Uncle Dan takes questions from a live audience in Portland
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Obama’s making a ‘last-minute push’ to reform Chicago police before Trump’s inauguration, and other news
Also, Showtime has picked up a new scripted show about the lives of young black men on the south side.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 2/28: Ron Funches, Wes Anderson Anthology, and Revelations
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, February 28
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In the weeds of the state’s medical marijuana law
Illinois’s new cannabis program will help some ill patients, but its many rules, restrictions, and uncertainties are a real buzz kill.
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Homeslice pays homage to the Beaver State and its pizza
Inspired by the log cabins and pizza pies of the Pacific northwest, Homeslice cozies into Lincoln Park.
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Secrets of The Shining
Rodney Ascher’s documentary Room 237 reveals the hidden meanings in Kubrick’s horror classic.
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Zoom in: Evanston
Northwestern’s old Patten Gymnasium was the site of the first-ever NCAA tournament championship.
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In Rotation: John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey on vintage dead-stock vinyl from Kenya
Current musical obsessions of John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey and filmmaker Brian Ashby
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Four weddings and a three-way
Dan on genderqueer fashion etiquette and gay strip clubs.
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Beer and Metal: At the mercy of the Beast
The Beast that came from Jersey and the Beast that comes from Milwaukee