Welsh producer Kelly Lee Owens begins her sophomore album, Inner Song (Smalltown Supersound), with an instrumental cover of Radiohead’s “Arpeggi.” Her version is all about effervescent electronics, and it can evoke the feeling of being underwater—isolated from the rest of the world with only your thoughts. When Owens’s vocals arrive on the following track, “On,” […]
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Spend quality time in quarantine with your new favorite Chicago albums
Close your eyes and picture yourself at your favorite local venue while listening to these new releases.
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Radiohead front man Thom Yorke proves his electronic mastery on Anima
Thom Yorke may be best known as front man of legendary British art-rock group Radiohead, but he’s also amassed an impressive discography on his own, putting out several solo releases, a 2013 album with his side group Atoms for Peace, and the score for 2018’s Suspiria remake. His third album under his own name, last […]
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The Portland Cello Project juxtaposes Radiohead, Coltrane, and Bach on an intimate small-group tour
The Portland Cello Project was created in 2006 to bring the cello into new spaces and pair it with unlikely source material, and it’s since juxtaposed a wide variety of reconfigured pop, rock, and rap songs with Western classical arrangements—contrasting Kanye West with J.S. Bach, for instance, or Pantera with Arvo Pärt. The group tweaks […]
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Photos of everything we saw at Lollapalooza 2016
Seventy-one great photos from Chicago’s biggest for-profit music festival
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At Lollapalooza, Radiohead proved their music can be enjoyed in a big festival setting
Thom Yorke helped the fest unite over a shared sense of alienation.
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The Crosstown Classic, Grave Robbing 101, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Lollapalooza, Sake 101, and more happenings from July 25-28.
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Ty Money’s new ‘Okay’ stands out, even in the long shadows of Drake and Radiohead
The shortest song on Ty Money’s new mixtape, Cinco de Money 2, is also one of its most memorable.
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Lollapalooza 2016 lineup: Radiohead and a bunch of other acts we all knew would play
A predictable lineup might make celebrating Lollapalooza’s 25th anniversary less than thrilling.
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A movie about mobsters Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana is in the works and other Chicago news
Also, LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers dominate Lollapalooza rumors.
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Let the Lollapalooza lineup predictions begin
Gossip Wolf guesses about the Lolla lineup, the Hideout throws its annual party for local acts heading to SXSW, and more.
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James Farm play jazz with the concision and focus of moody pop music
The quartet brings out another side of saxophonist Joshua Redman.
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Artist on Artist: Andrew Bird talks to Brett and Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family
Andrew Bird talks to Brett and Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family.
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12 O’Clock Track: In honor of the Comics Issue, the “Paranoid Android” video
The animated music video for the first single off of Radiohead’s OK Computer
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 10/2: Atoms for Peace, Sam Amidon, and Festival of Preservation
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, October 2