Danish-born musician Casper Clausen is best known for fronting the long-running Efterklang, which plays exploratory and often ornate electro-infused indie rock, and for performing with that group’s synth-heavy and relatively spontaneous sister project, Liima. This year, for the first time since he began making music as a teen, he’s stepped out from a collaborative setting. […]
Tag: Portugal
HHY & the Macumbas soundtrack the bonfire at the end of the world
Portuguese collective HHY & the Macumbas release a live album that captures their entrancing flood of percussion, brass, and “skull cave echo.”
Sonic Boom uses retro-futuristic psychedelia to explore today on his first album in three decades
This might go down in history as the year everything got completely fucked forever, but some people will also fondly recall it as the year when Sonic Boom finally released his glorious second LP, All Things Being Equal—three decades after his solo debut. Peter Kember, the multi-instrumentalist better known as Sonic Boom, made Spectrum way […]
Our guide to week two of the European Union Film Festival
Week two of the European Union Film Festival: Toby Jones stars in Berberian Sound Studio.
Reader’s Agenda Wed 2/27: The Chicago Opera Theater, Moonspell, and Miller and Lauderdale
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The presidency: take this job and love it
If Obama’s so smart, why does he want four more years?
António Zambujo’s broad-minded fado
The excellent, expansive Portuguese fado singer António Zambujo makes his Chicago debut this evening at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Portuguese jazz at the Hideout
Portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes brings his Humanization 4tet, featuring saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, to the Hideout tonight.
This Week’s Food and Drink Events
Carnaval, Fat Tuesday, Sunday supper at Vie, and more.
The Face You Deserve
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s fantastic meditation on turning 30, “The Face You Deserve,” screens tonight at Cinema Borealis.
Cuba: An African Odyssey
“Cuba: An African Odyssey,” screening Monday 2/8 at Biblioteca Popular, follows Cuba’s role in African liberation campaigns from the 60s through the 80s.
Portuguese Donkey Art and Swedish Micro-Sleds
Kooky and functional imports from Kiosk