Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 classic screens from 35-millimeter this Monday night.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 2
Issue of Oct. 19 – 25, 2017
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These Armenian-Iraqi immigrants tried tacos for the first time in Chicago
“She likes them, I don’t.”
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Former Manishevitz front man Adam Busch debuts as Adam Ostrar with a lovely but uneasy new album
After discovering a more famous Adam Busch online, the ex-Chicagoan adopted the name “Ostrar” from his maternal grandmother.
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Tuba player Dan Peck makes doom metal sound frisky with his trio the Gate
New York low-brass master Dan Peck, who’s in town this week with reedist Ingrid Laubrock, finds new territory for the tuba in his own projects.
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Vanguardist Arto Lindsay seamlessly blends Brazilian pop, noise, and sonic dichotomy on his first album in 13 years
Earlier this year experimental pop genius Arto Lindsay dropped Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy). It’s his first new studio album in 13 years, but what’s resulted fits seamlessly alongside its predecessor, Salt (Righteous Babe). Since the late 70s, when he unleashed one of the world’s greatest manifestations of—in the immortal words of Lester Bangs—“horrible noise” with […]
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Boris celebrates 25 years of mastering the heavy music spectrum
One of the greatest joys of pressing play on a new Boris record is the excitement of hearing which direction they take each time around. Formed in 1992, the Japanese trio have dabbled in—and mostly perfected—the entire spectrum of heavy and heady music. They kicked off their career tipping their collective hat to the doom […]
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Gothic chanteuse Chelsea Wolfe skews more metallic than ever on Hiss Spun
Genre-straddling chanteuse, composer, and guitarist Chelsea Wolfe confounds some fans and rewards others on her newly released sixth full-length, Hiss Spun. Her witchy brew of drone-folk with gothic and industrial influences is dramatic and cinematic (it’s been licensed by Fear the Walking Dead, The Magicians, and Game of Thrones). It’s also crept heavier and heavier […]
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Bay Area trio Invisible Guy expands its adventurous arsenal to include moody film music
Bay Area clarinetist Ben Goldberg always seems to be widening his creative portfolio, applying his restrained virtuosity to an ever-increasing number of pursuits and styles. I first took note of his work in the early 90s, when his New Klezmer Trio melded sometimes raucous, sometimes sorrowful Jewish music with the language of free jazz. Since […]
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Boston rapper Cousin Stizz shares the feeling of his ascent on One Night Only
Boston is rarely celebrated for its contributions to hip-hop (Gang Starr started there, but most remember the legendary duo for their time in New York), yet last summer when Fader writer Eric Diep asked Boston rapper Stephen Goss, aka Cousin Stizz, whether he believed his hometown’s scene deserves more outside recognition, Stizz replied, “Yo, Boston […]
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Paris-based English folk-pop group This Is the Kit delivers an elegant, seductive cool on Moonshine Freeze
Until this year I’ve missed out on the beguiling folk-pop crafted by This Is the Kit, the moniker of Paris-based Englishwoman Kate Stables and a rotating cast of musicians from the UK, France, and beyond. The group’s fourth and latest album, Moonshine Freeze (Rough Trade), has led me to catch up on their previous recordings, […]
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Saxophonist Larry Ochs channels the vibe of 60s free jazz while creating improvisations intended as aural filmmaking
Veteran Bay Area reedist Larry Ochs has often worked within meticulously arranged compositional vehicles—in his pioneering saxophone quartet ROVA, high-flying improvisation is rigorously woven into the fabric of each piece. In recent years he’s increasingly spent time in looser, more spontaneous configurations where written material plays a less prominent role, but he continues to see […]
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As hip-hop becomes pop, Lil Uzi Vert is its rising prince
This year hip-hop, long a dominant cultural force, went pop in terms of both setting trends in contemporary music and leading music sales. Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert is at the apex. His debut studio album, Luv Is Rage 2 (Atlantic), is the most important release of 2017, which has as much to do with […]
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Guitarists and pals pull their individual aesthetics closer together on their second collaborative album
Guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker have been playing together for years, and their lovely second collaborative album, SpiderBeetleBee (Drag City), beautifully bridges the gap between their backgrounds. MacKay, a Pittsburgh native, has musical roots in jazz, while Walker pursues a cosmic folk-rock sound indebted to experimental troubadours such as Tim Buckley, John Martyn, and […]
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Houston rapper Kirko Bangz merges current rap trends with his hometown’s history
When rappers began to gravitate towards singing at the beginning of this decade, Kirk Randle, better known as Kirko Bangz, infused his vocals with the spirit of his hometown, Houston, and the city’s influence is all over his breakout 2011 single, “Drank in My Cup.” The song’s title is an obvious reference to the recreational […]
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A season-long focus on the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti opens with a performance by the peerless Arditti Quartet
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti will be feted during the University of Chicago’s 2017-2018 concert season with a thrilling series of performances by high-caliber artists including Imani Winds, Eighth Blackbird and Amadinda, and Third Coast Percussion. The program gets off to a stellar start with the Arditti Quartet, arguably the most consistently adventurous and precise […]