Chicago label Parlour Tapes recently released four experimental solo cassettes from its four founders.
Tag: Vol. 50 No. 19
Issue of Jun. 10 – 23, 2021
Posted inCity Life
A true survivor
Monica Ortiz confronts—and survives—many obstacles during a traumatic year.
Posted inCity Life
Juneteenth celebrations and more
Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days
Posted inFilm
(Re)Introducing Sparks
Ron and Russell Mael get their due in Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers.
Posted inMusic
In Trios From the City of Big Shoulders, the Lincoln Trio dusts off overlooked Chicago chamber works
It’s Leo Sowerby’s summer. Had 2020 gone as planned, musicians across the city likely would have launched into 125th-anniversary celebrations for the late Chicago composer (1895–1968) and onetime St. James Cathedral organist. Any such plans were obviously tabled, but luckily for us, quasquicentennial recordings of Sowerby’s chamber works are nonetheless bubbling to the top of […]
Posted inArts & Culture
PrideArts hires Jay Españo as artistic director
Jay Españo brings international perspective as the new AD for PrideArts; plus Leaders for a New Chicago awards and a new fund in honor of the late Malcolm Ewen
Posted inNews & Politics
‘I’ll be the first to die’
As Illinois prisons accelerated releases during the pandemic, many were forced into crowded, unmonitored residential reentry centers across Cook County.
Posted inMusic
Garbage indicts social injustices on No Gods No Masters
When Garbage broke out with their self-titled debut album in 1995, their alluring but abrasive sound—dark power-pop melodies topped by Shirley Manson’s alternately growled and whispered vocals—enticed listeners like sweet pink candy with a messy center. Their second album, 1998’s Version 2.0, expands on this recipe of fuzzed-out guitar and distorted vocals with multilayered tracks […]
Posted inMusic
Skanking Lizard helped birth Chicago’s live reggae scene
Skanking Lizard’s new vinyl retrospective, Original Chicago Reggae: 1978-1996, quadruples the number of formally released tracks in their discography.
Posted inArts & Culture
Moonwater Dance Project rides the wave
The all-female-identifying Moonwater Dance Project explores water-as-metaphor in its newest piece.
Posted inMusic
A mountain of dots and lines on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster, for an outdoor David Boykin concert at Compound Yellow, is by Oak Park-based singer-songwriter and creative director Rich Klevgard.
Posted inMusic
Chicago rocker Adam Schubert re-emerges as Ulna with the reflective Oea
Adam Schubert, who plays guitar and sings in Chicago psych-rock unit Cafe Racer, took up music more than a decade ago. At age 14, he shattered his ulna (one of the bones in his forearm) in a skateboarding accident; since he couldn’t skate, he decided to pick up the guitar. By age 16, he’d gotten […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Let’s not beat around the bush . . .
The new Cubs City Connect uniforms are awful.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Disclose that you have herpes before the European orgy
It’s the right thing to do, even if it gets you scratched off the guest list.
