Current musical obsessions of Bare Mutants vocalist Jeanine O’Toole, and Eternals front man Damon Locks
Tag: records
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Robert Pollard’s not-at-all-haphazard Honey Locust Honky Tonk and 14 more record reviews
Six Reader writers fan out to consider Author & Punisher, Ciara, and more
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In Rotation: Melissa Oglesby of Girls Rock! Chicago on Mikal Cronin’s incredibly dirty hair
Current obsessions of Girls Rock! Chicago outreach director Melissa Oglesby and saxophonist Kate Walsh
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The long game of soul singer Doug Shorts
Doug Shorts has been a doorman, a karate instructor, even an extra in an Adam Sandler movie—and now he might finally make it as a soul singer.
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Best Sign That People Are Still Buying Records
The shop, run by former Lincoln Hall manager Nick Mayor and his wife, Jen Lemasters (a photo assistant at Threadless), specializes in new and used vinyl with a focus on garage and punk, and it will eventually host regular in-store performances.
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What music’s outsiders and oddballs got up to before the Internet
The coffee-table book and CD set Enjoy the Experience documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.
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Steve Krakow’s magical history tour
Steve Krakow’s Humboldt Park apartment is teeming with records, comics, and an animatronic bear or two.
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In Rotation: Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey on Nardwuar the Human Serviette
Current musical obsessions of Julie Shapiro of Third Coast and Jim Dempsey of Corbett vs. Dempsey
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In Rotation: CUFF artistic director Bryan Wendorf on the blackened Krautrock of Aluk Todolo
Current musical obsessions of CUFF artistic director Bryan Wendorf and filmmaker Mike Gibisser
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One dozen emotions I experienced immediately after buying $260 worth of records in Madison on Saturday
Blowing $260 on records in one day results in a whirlwind of emotions
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Numero Group hosts a yard sale
Numero Group hosts its inaugural fall yard sale this Saturday in Little Village from 9 AM to 3 PM.
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Get Into The Groove!
Held onto the relationship long enough to gain a lifetime of dancing and singing.
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Short Takes on Recent Releases
A local psych maven’s beautiful bad trip, Eef Barzelay’s hip-hop ho, and collectivist free folk from Glasgow
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Soul of the Blues/Mississippi Burnin’ Blues
SOUL OF THE BLUES Solomon Burke Black Top BT-1095 MISSISSIPPI BURNIN’ BLUES Sweet Miss Coffy, Cadillac George Harris, George Jackson Mardi Gras Records MG-1017 Not many years ago, soul-music aficionados often disdained traditional blues as lower-class, simplistic music embarrassingly reminiscent of an earlier, more oppressive era. Many blues fans, for their part, turned up their […]