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Chicago’s Thomas Comerford assembles a cast of local musicians for an album of beguiling country
Chicago has its share of bands playing country or alternative country, but Thomas Comerford’s lonesome sound is in a category of its own. Comerford straddles the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s and the dusty, deadpan observations of psychedelic iconoclasts such as Bill Callahan. He’s also an independent filmmaker—he teaches film and art history at the […]
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Azita has more to say and more ways to say it
For Glen Echo, Azita Youssefi’s first album in more than eight years, she played and recorded every instrument herself.
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Thomas Comerford, filmmaker and singer-songwriter
“To me that’s kind of the magical part, bringing the songs to various people to work on them together.”
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A family-friendly phantom horse on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist Annie Klein.
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Local singer-songwriter Thomas Comerford explores the fundamentals on Blood Moon
Singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Thomas Comerford is all about the fundamentals. To teach his cinematography students at the School of the Art Institute about lighting, he has them re-create images from their favorite movies—you can see some of their picks, drawn from the history of monster movies, in the video to Comerford’s song “Lord of […]
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Chicago rock vet Thomas Comerford’s new album Blood Moon was worth the four-year wait
Thomas Comerford is a devoted student of rock music who takes his own contributions to the form as seriously as its rich history. He operates with meticulous detail and patience, which might explain why it’s been four years since his last release, the 2014 album II. Since then, he’s expanded his pool of collaborators, and […]
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 6/12: Brian ‘Box’ Brown, Fiestas Puertorriqueñas, Thomas Comerford
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, June 12
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Chicago Mixtape turns three this weekend
Chicago Mixtape celebrates its third birthday this weekend with a massive fund-raiser blowout.
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Bill Brown unveils a “monumental” work at the Nightingale
Noting a program of short works by the experimental filmmaker, which screens this Friday
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Thomas Comerford of Kaspar Hauser gets mellow
Thomas Comerford of Kaspar Hauser chills out on his new solo record Archive + Spiral.
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The Indian Boundary Line
Kasper Hauser frontman Thomas Comerford’s experimental documentary “The Indian Boundary Line,” about the stories history of Rogers Avenue, premieres Thursday 2/4 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Kasper Hauser gets reflective
Kaspar Hauser celebrates a strong new record with a show Friday night at Beat Kitchen.
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Kaspar Hauser finds itself
Chicago rock band Kaspar Hauser makes great strides forward on its new album.