Davis the Dorchester Bully isn’t rapping too fast—you’re listening too slow. As the Chicagoan says on “Virginia,” a track from his new album with Detroit producer Foule Monk, “Life is as simple as it seems.” And so are his rhymes, even when he serves them up with moments of head-whipping banter. That collaborative album is […]
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Annie Fish simulates her dream of 90s alt-rock stardom
On Friday, September 16, Chicago singer, songwriter, and cartoonist Annie Fish will drop Weird Like Me, an album so steeped in classic alt-rock you’ll half believe Fish recorded it with Flood in 1993. Weird Like Me is a concept record about Fish’s childhood rock dreams, which she says she abandoned after seeing how the “powers […]
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Bandcamp Fridays are back, at least for the rest of 2021
Though live shows are returning, there’s no safer way to support artists and labels than buying music online.
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Chicago hip-hop duo Udababy tap the energy of the Why? Records collective on their debut album
Judging from the energy of practically every Why? Records release, the four rappers who make up the underground Chicago hip-hop collective and label could easily spend the rest of their lives collaborating in different configurations on a half dozen albums per year. Udababy LP, the debut full-length from Why? duo Udababy, is no exception. Rappers […]
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Rapper Davis brings you into his corner of Chicago DIY with Green Parakeet Suite
Davis Blackwell began rapping in June 2018 and got involved in the Chicago music scene in no time. Shortly after he first picked up the mike, he formed the duo Udababy with Joshua Virtue; last year they cofounded local label and collective Why? Records with MCs Malci and Ruby Watson. Why? has become a force […]
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Glam goofballs Lollygagger throw everything at the wall on their new video album
Glam goofballs Lollygagger throw everything at the wall on their new video album, rapper Solo Sam releases an EP with a companion cookbook, and more.
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Rap that asks the right questions
The fledgling Why? Records crew—Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, and Ruby Watson—are already making some of the city’s most compelling and idiosyncratic hip-hop.
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DJ King Hippo on the holy grail of Chicago spiritual jazz
Current musical obsessions of DJ King Hippo (aka Alejandro Ayala), Resavoir bandleader Will Miller, and Reader writer Leor Galil