UPDATE: As of Sunday 10/2/2022, the Medicine Singers and Yonatan Gat concert scheduled for the Empty Bottle has been canceled. Contact ticket point of purchase for refund information. The Eastern Medicine Singers are a traditional Algonquin drum and vocal group based in Rhode Island. They sing mostly in several Algonquian languages, some of which are […]
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Sheet Ghosts soundtrack imaginary horror films
Sheet Ghosts soundtrack imaginary horror films, Gramps the Vamp go far out with Keeper of the Void, and more.
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Wrekmeister Harmonies face the darkness before the dawn on We Love to Look at the Carnage
Enigmatic former Chicagoans Wrekmeister Harmonies wrote their seventh full-length, We Love to Look at the Carnage (Thrill Jockey), in a cold, isolated farmhouse in upstate New York and recorded it in Brooklyn the following summer with producer Martin Bisi. This time around, the core duo of J.R. Robinson and Esther Shaw added insightful, versatile percussionist […]
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Former Swans drummer Thor Harris trades aggression for hypnosis
Thor Harris’s new project offers a homespun take on the tuned-percussion music of Steve Reich.
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Former Chicagoans Cross Record return with the immersive Wabi-Sabi
The heavy, ominous “Steady Waves” is a great introduction to Cross Record’s powerful new album.
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Gossip Wolf: Fame spotting at the Pitchfork Music Festival
The famous folks mingling at Pitchfork last weekend included Taylor Bennett, who’s playing an antiviolence fund-raiser for Kids Off the Block.