The singer and artist’s follow-up to Just Kids is melancholy but not depressing.
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A conversation with Jeff Koons: ‘For me art has never been about money’
The SAIC alum discusses balloon dogs, art forgery, and exploring Chicago’s low life with Ed Paschke
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Here are 28 books we can’t wait to read in 2015
New stuff to read from Sandra Cisneros, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Patti Smith, and more.
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Kim Gordon: ‘Nobody says, “What’s it like being a man in music?”‘
The Sonic Youth cofounder talks with the Mekons’ Sally Timms about her recent divorce, her rejuvenated art career, and her new memoir, Girl in a Band.
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More of the best books I read this year
A Reader writer looks back on a year in reading.
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What we learned at the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival
Here are the nuggets wisdom and trivia we gleaned from the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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Burroughs lays bare the notorious author of Naked Lunch
This 1983 documentary gets Burroughs right between the eyes.
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Patti Smith discusses art, remembrance, and detective shows
Before Patti Smith comes to town, she talks with the Reader about art, remembrance, and detective shows.
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Jason Molina’s long dark blues
Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. front man Jason Molina produced a prodigious catalog of stark and heartbreaking music. Then he disappeared.
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On Riot Fest’s final day, pretty much everybody had an opinion about Weezer
Other Sunday favorites at the festival included Patti Smith, Billy Bragg, the Cure, Chumped, and Cheap Trick.
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Here’s the 2014 Riot Fest lineup
The Cure, Jane’s Addiction, Slayer, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan, the Offspring, and Patti Smith are among dozens of acts slated to play this tenth annual Riot Fest in September.
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In I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp Richard Hell reflects on his childhood and punk stardom
In I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp Richard Hell reflects on his childhood and punk stardom.
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Kylie Minogue’s cheerfully lascivious Kiss Me Once and 15 more record reviews
Reader writers tackle Morbus Chron’s feral-to-cerebral death prog and 14 more new records.
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Cathleen Schine’s flower children
The protagonists of Cathleen Schine’s ninth novel, Fin & Lady, wander 1960s New York.
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Beauty Bar gets Clowned
Slipknot’s No. 6 comes out for his friend in Austra, someone from Pitchfork plans to crash the Blackout, and Patti Smith swings back by Logan Square