One of the very few celebrity breakups to ever have an emotional effect on me was the 2011 split of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, which also resulted in the end of Sonic Youth. There was much speculation on how the band’s members would move forward following the dissolution of such a distinctive creative partnership, […]
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Strutting garage rockers Bleach Party finally drop a full-length album
Strutting garage rockers Bleach Party finally drop a full-length album, half of Sonic Youth helps celebrate 30 years of Daydream Nation at the Music Box, and more.
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Pitchfork outflanks its festival competition with left-field bookings
Circuit des Yeux, Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Irreversible Entanglements, and This Is Not This Heat don’t sell tickets like Fleet Foxes, but they help keep the Pitchfork Music Festival interesting.
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Texas label Astral Spirits weds the cassette resurgence to the ‘new wave of heavy free jazz’
On Thursday at Constellation, Astral Spirits celebrates tape releases by Billington/Shippy/Wyche and Matt Lux’s Communication Arts Quartet.
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Pitchfork’s veteran acts confront the trap of the crowd favorite
Veteran Pitchfork acts LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, and Ride have had mixed success evolving past the sounds that made them famous.
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The Reader’s takes on the 2017 Pitchfork Music Festival
Our preview package covers Solange and the breadth of black cultural expression, Jeff Rosenstock and Pitchfork’s relationship to DIY, Survive and music media’s infatuation with prestige TV, and much more.
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Thurston Moore finds a comfort zone with his strong new quartet on Rock n Roll Consciousness
Over time it’s become clear that Thurston Moore thrives on collaboration, and with the dissolution of Sonic Youth he’s managed to regain his footing as a bandleader with this lean quartet. While he’s been involved with countless side projects over his long career, it’s only now that he has a working band in which the […]
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Angel Marcloid of Fire-Toolz on the voyages of a digital native
Current musical obsessions of Resonance Series cocurator Ben Baker Billington, Angel Marcloid of Fire-Toolz, and the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti
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A conversation with Thurston Moore, Rick Bayless at the Good Food Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this week
The Macy’s Flower Show, Koval Distillery Dinner, and more happenings from March 21-24.
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Day two of Riot Fest: Bootsy Collins, alien jizz, and senior citizens kicking everyone’s asses
Riot Fest was still muddy and gross on Saturday, but the music—Drive Like Jehu, System of a Down, Rancid, the Damned—made all the slogging around worth it.
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Kim Gordon: ‘Nobody says, “What’s it like being a man in music?”‘
The Sonic Youth cofounder talks with the Mekons’ Sally Timms about her recent divorce, her rejuvenated art career, and her new memoir, Girl in a Band.
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Thurston Moore hooks up with Scandinavian free jazz juggernaut the Thing
And together they create visceral, cut-punching improvisations.
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Tim Daisy and Mikolaj Trzaska hit the road
The Chicago jazz drummer embarks on a short tour with the Polish reedist in support of a strong new duo album.
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Black metal supergroup Twilight debut a new track from their upcoming final album
Largely-local American black metal supergroup Twilight debut a new track from their upcoming final record.
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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