The style and sound of experimental music don’t hew to geographic regions. And Buck Gooter, a noisy duo from Harrisonburg, Virginia, perhaps best exemplify the concept. Convened in the early aughts, after Terry Turtle and Billy Brett met working at local restaurant the Little Grill Collective (known for hosting an early-career Old Crow Medicine Show […]
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Lucy Dacus reflects on her coming-of-age with the new Home Video
The moment you start reflecting on a time that’s past, it’s no longer something you’re living—it becomes something you’ve lived. Lucy Dacus documents and interrogates her own coming-of-age on her new third album, Home Video. After being blindsided by the success of her 2016 debut, No Burden, Dacus was forced to reckon with her hometown […]
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Nature’s Neighbor takes its indie-pop experimenting to new lengths on Otherside
Chicagoan Mike Walker has led Nature’s Neighbor for more than a decade, working with a revolving-door cast of musicians who’ve helped him realize his liquid indie-pop sound. But as much as the project is his brainchild, its new album, Otherside (Tai Duo Music), wouldn’t exist without longtime collaborator Terrill Mast. Early last April, Mast texted […]
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Grindcore legends Pig Destroyer expand their horizons on a new EP
Pig Destroyer have been at the forefront of grindcore for more than 20 years, and over that time they’ve found a way to push the notoriously rigid style into far-reaching spaces. Helmed by guitarist Scott Hull (also the mastermind behind psychotic “cybergrind” outfit Agoraphobic Nosebleed), the Virginia band started out playing fairly standard grindcore in […]
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Cold Beaches amp up their gloomy but beachy indie pop on Drifter
Cold Beaches are one of the most aptly named bands I’ve discovered this year: their new album, Drifter, evokes a decidedly beachy but sometimes gloomy world that makes me think of walking along an east-coast oceanfront in the fall. The band started as the solo project of Chicago singer-songwriter and guitarist Sophia Nadia, who grew […]
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Rahm & Rauner help Amazon play New York City and Virginia like a bunch of saps
Bringing Amazon HQ2 to Chicago was the dream of only Mayor Rahm and his faithful sidekick Governor Rauner—both of whom will be leaving office shortly, thank you very much.
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Gene Barge blew his sax on some of the wildest R&B hits of the 60s
The Blues Festival pays tribute to 91-year-old saxophonist Gene “Daddy G” Barge with a set with by his longest-running band, the Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings.
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Rauner: Trump’s Charlottesville comments ‘damage America,’ and other Chicago news
Also, Attorney General Sessions slams Emanuel, Chicago yet again.
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Emanuel slams Trump over Charlottesville: ‘Members of the neo-Nazi and the KKK think they have a friend in the Oval Office,’ and other Chicago news
Also, Rauner isn’t happy with the state senate’s override of his school funding veto.
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Illinois senate overrides Rauner’s amendatory veto of the school funding bill, and other news
Also, hundreds of Chicagoans gathered Sunday to denounce racism and bigotry after the violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville.
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A wide-ranging interview with Neil Michael Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux
The duo discuss their history and their 2001 album Pound for Pound for the album’s 15th anniversary; Hagerty also plays a free solo show at the Owl tonight.
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Virginia trio Foehammer debut with ten minutes of tar-pit doom metal about Gandalf
On Foehammer’s debut EP, doom metal and The Lord of the Rings go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
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Unsacred make black metal for pulling tree stumps
This crusty Virginia black-metal band has no use for tremolo picking that sounds like a gerbil trying to get into a can of soup.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 9/25: Breaking Bad Quiz, Black Twig Pickers, and Laura Veirs
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, September 25
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12 O’Clock Track: Gull, “Fast Enough”
Gull may be a gimmicky, cartoonish one-man band, but don’t hold that against “Fast Enough”