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Home » Reaching for Indigo

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Singer-guitarist Haley Fohr hunts for a path forward with a colorful Hideout residency

by Bill Meyer December 3, 2018August 18, 2021

Fohr’s three freewheeling Wednesday shows feature guests such as Hamid Drake, Tim Kinsella, and Olivia Block, plus an eight-piece version of her Circuit des Yeux band.

Posted inMusic

Pitchfork outflanks its festival competition with left-field bookings

by Peter Margasak July 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Circuit des Yeux, Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Irreversible Entanglements, and This Is Not This Heat don’t sell tickets like Fleet Foxes, but they help keep the Pitchfork Music Festival interesting.

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Peter Margasak’s 40 favorite albums of 2017, numbers 10 through 1

by Peter Margasak January 5, 2018August 18, 2021

Veteran Reader critic Peter Margasak counts down his 40 favorite records of the year—and the final installment includes music by Ikue Mori, JD Allen, and Richard Dawson.

Posted inMusic

On her latest album as Circuit des Yeux, Haley Fohr makes a stunning artistic leap

by Peter Margasak November 9, 2017August 18, 2021

I’ve been observing the artistic growth of Haley Fohr since she moved to Chicago in 2012 from Bloomington, Indiana. She’s matured in leaps and bounds since the release of her breakthrough album, In Plain Speech (Thrill Jockey), in 2015, but nothing could have prepared me for her achievements on the remarkable new Reaching for Indigo […]

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