Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Sapokanikan,” off the singer’s forthcoming album Divers.
Tag: Steve Albini
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See a locally produced punk-rock musical this weekend at Township
A quick look at the locally produced punk musical, Sacrificial Youth
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See Chicago’s musical underground in photos at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Schmelling deftly captures Chicago’s underground music scene in “Your Blues.”
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Foo Fighters take a trek through Chicago’s musical history on HBO’s Sonic Highways, with mixed results
The alternative-rock titans come to Chicago in the first episode of their HBO series, named after their forthcoming record.
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Jason Molina’s long dark blues
Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. front man Jason Molina produced a prodigious catalog of stark and heartbreaking music. Then he disappeared.
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 9/20: the Breeders, the Chicago Wandelweiser Festival, and Apple Festival
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, September 20
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Shellac announce the release of Dude Incredible, play two shows in town
The local postpunk legends are back.
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In Rotation: Metro publicist Jenny Lizak on a punk documentary to give teenage girls for Christmas
Current obsessions of Metro publicist Jenny Lizak, and Smart Bar booker Marea Stamper (aka the Black Madonna)
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The Pixies’ deflating Indie Cindy and 15 more record reviews
Future’s conscience-stricken coke rap and 15 more reviews of recent releases
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Gossip Wolf: A new High Spirits record to cheer up any metalhead
New music from High Spirits and the Please & Thank Yous, plus a long-overdue Silkworm reissue
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Artist on Artist: Robbie Fulks talks to Steve Albini
Country polymath Robbie Fulks talks to engineer extraordinaire Steve Albini.
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Best Outcall Soundman
At a Yob show in February he turned the Flat Iron into a white-hot doom-metal blast furnace, and at this year’s Dark Lord Day he made High on Fire’s stampeding barbarian metal sound as overwhelming outside as I’ve ever heard it indoors.
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Artist on Artist: Brendan Canty of Deathfix talks to Jay Ryan of Dianogah
Deathfix’s Brendan Canty (who used to drum in Fugazi) talks to Dianogah’s Jay Ryan (who still runs the Bird Machine).
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Watch Couldn’t You Wait? The Story of Silkworm
The new Silkworm documentary is awesome.
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Tomorrow Never Knows 2013
This year Tomorrow Never Knows is bigger than ever, with Merchandise, Chelsea Wolfe, the Walkmen, Jessie Ware, and much more.