On his first album in four years, Chicago singer theMIND digs in against the disenfranchisement of Black voices.
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Open the Circle teaches footwork because footwork saves lives
Chicago nonprofit Open the Circle works to spread a local Black dance culture that can knit together youth communities.
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Chicago singer the Mind makes romance sound huge and feel intimate on his debut mixtape
After adding his voice to music by the likes of Mick Jenkins, Chance the Rapper, and Joey Purp, the Mind steps out on his own with Summer Camp.
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Listen to the first and final album by Chicago posthardcore group Coping
Excellent local posthardcore group Coping is dead, but its debut album is finally here
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This week the Reader’s Spotify playlist goes DIY
A Spotify playlist all about local DIY shows
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In Rotation: A Reader critic, CHIRP Radio’s founder, and Zapruder Point’s singer dish on what’s got their toes tapping
Leor Galil, Reader music critic Mamaleek’s Kurdaitcha: Here’s something I never expected to hear from a pair of San Francisco bedroom musicians: a moving, visceral concoction of black metal, jazz, shoegaze, hip-hop, experimental, and world music rolled into one intense record. The sheer power and beauty of songs like “The White Marble Stone” continue to […]
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Learn to Lose
Louis Lapat returns to the site of traumatic teen summers at Wisconsin’s ultra-competitive Camp Ojibwa in his documentary “Win or Lose,” screening Sunday at the Highland Park Theater.