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Scorched Tundra XII celebrates heavy music from Sweden, Chicago, and beyond

by Monica Kendrick August 29, 2022August 29, 2022

Promoter Alexi Front began his love affair with Scandinavian metal in the mid-2000s by publishing a zine and running a label. He started the Scorched Tundra festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2011, and five years later he began throwing one in Chicago as well—spearheading a sort of underground-metal sister-cities program. Front is a curator by […]

Posted inMusic

Slow Pulp make a dreamy album for the year we can’t wake up from

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil September 29, 2020August 18, 2021

Slow Pulp make a dreamy album for the year we can’t wake up from, Pelican guitarist Dallas Thomas keeps the solo jams coming, and more.

Posted inMusic

Metropolitan Brewing teams up with Pelican for the biere de garde Cold Hope

by Philip Montoro June 24, 2019August 18, 2021

Beer and Metal returns to review a long-gestating collaboration by beloved Chicago institutions Pelican and Metropolitan Brewing.

Posted inMusic

Pelican deliver a powerful and emotional new album, Nighttime Stories

by Monica Kendrick June 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago (mostly) instrumental progressive-metal favorites Pelican produced full-lengths on a fairly regular schedule throughout the 00s, but that reliability began to break down when the decade flipped to the 10s. Four years passed between What We All Come to Need and Forever Becoming, the first album with Dallas Thomas of the Swan King stepping in […]

Posted inBlogs

Local power trio RLYR premiere the first song from their upcoming debut

by Luca Cimarusti April 12, 2016August 18, 2021

Three masters of boundary-pushing metal go shiny, pretty, and epic in RLYR.

Posted inBlogs

Pelican play a rare show with vocals at the Goose Island Urban Block Party

by Philip Montoro September 17, 2015August 18, 2021

For just the third time in their 15-year career, Pelican won’t be entirely instrumental onstage: Allen Epley of the Life and Times will join the band to sing “The Cliff” on Friday.

Posted inMusic

Stargazing in the mud at Pitchfork

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil July 22, 2015August 18, 2021

Stargazing in the mud at Pitchfork, plus new records on the way from RLYR and the duo of Ryley Walker and Bill MacKay

Cobra Lounge is going through a lot of changes, not least among them that Mike Petryshyn and his Riot Fest team are taking over music booking in December.
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Riot Fest to book Cobra Lounge

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil October 22, 2014August 18, 2021

Riot Fest takes over booking Cobra Lounge, Zigtebra and Soft Leather throw Halloween parties, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Pelican offers up a preview to self-released live record Arktika

by Luca Cimarusti July 17, 2014August 18, 2021

The local instrumental four-piece ready a double LP.

Posted inBlogs

Pelican plays a ‘secret’ show at the Owl tonight

by Luca Cimarusti May 19, 2014August 18, 2021

The local metal band just announced a show tonight at the Logan Square watering hole.

Gossip Wolf is betting that Tumblr-famous Michigan posthardcore band La Dispute will play Riot Fest in September.
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Riot Fest lineup predictions

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil April 1, 2014August 18, 2021

Riot Fest predictions, For Practically Everyone Records revs up for spring, and more

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: “Seven Angels” is pioneering doom drone by Earth

by Luca Cimarusti March 25, 2014August 18, 2021

“Seven Angels” is an insanely slow and heavy drone by the Olympia, Washington, band Earth.

Justin Roberts
Posted inMusic

Would you let your children listen to Justin Roberts?

by Leor Galil January 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Chicago kids’ musician Justin Roberts is up for a Grammy, so we asked seven local parents to listen to his latest album.

Posted inBlogs

Beer and Metal’s year in review

by Philip Montoro December 30, 2013August 19, 2021

This year’s ten most read Beer and Metal columns include two of the Reader‘s top five blog posts of 2013.

Posted inBlogs

Three Floyds and Pelican team up again, this time for the black IPA Immutable Dusk

by Philip Montoro November 11, 2013August 19, 2021

Pelican celebrate the release of Forever Becoming by tapping a new Three Floyds collaboration at their Bottom Lounge show on Wednesday.

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