Grandma would approve of this Lincoln Park Lebanese-Mexican mashup.
Tag: Vol. 50 No. 3
Issue of Oct. 29 – Nov. 11, 2020
Posted inFilm
Black Harvest Film Festival is still a party
In its 26th year, the festival stretches itself in celebration—and in service.
Posted inCity Life
Music makes the people come together
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
Posted inNews & Politics
Tales from the polls
What a Reader contributor saw as a first-time election judge
Posted inMusic
Vetus Supulcrum create a beautiful, somber refuge on Windswept Canyons of Thule
When I first heard the term “dungeon synth,” I imagined a style of dance music you’d hear in a subterranean goth club, but it’s actually a dark hybrid of neoclassical music, ambient, and black metal, heavily influenced by medieval lore and fantasy literature. What it lacks in grooves, it often makes up for in atmosphere […]
Posted inMusic
Witch-house lightning rods Salem return with newfound purpose
Salem seemed briefly ubiquitous in 2010, but history has been kinder to this midwestern electronic trio than anyone would’ve predicted from their rapid rise and equally rapid dismissal. That’s largely due to timing. The members of Salem—vocalists and producers Jack Donoghue, John Holland, and Heather Marlatt—fused narcotized, chopped-and-screwed hip-hop to even drowsier dance music, and […]
Posted inMusic
Disharmony at the Old Town School
The Old Town School’s new union fears the administration is treating teachers like commodities, not inspirations.
Posted inMusic
Girl group the Lovelites hit big but never became stars outside Chicago
The Lovelites had their biggest success with “How Can I Tell My Mom and Dad,” which came out when they were so young they could barely tour.
Posted inMusic
Bandcamp Friday soldiers on
The nation may be diseased and broken, but you can still use your Bandcamp dollars to do a small kindness for musicians and labels.
Posted inFilm
City Hall highlights public servants actually serving the public
Frederick Wiseman’s documentary offers a hopeful look at political institutions.
Posted inMusic
The heroically mournful doom metal of Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days is built to outlast trials
I just realized I’ve loved Pallbearer for eight whole years, starting the moment I first heard their debut album, Sorrow and Extinction. Since at least their third full-length, 2017’s Heartless, the best ever doom-metal band in Little Rock, Arkansas, have openly indulged their love of prog and classic rock, and I’ve stayed cool with that. […]
Posted inMusic
Tasha Cobbs Leonard celebrates unity in the historic Ryman Auditorium on her new live album
Gospel singer Tasha Cobbs Leonard produced her latest full-length album, Royalty: Live at the Ryman, with a multiracial, multigenre crew of singers and musicians who joined her on the storied boards of Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on August 3. Even though the pandemic eliminated the possibility of a live audience, the Ryman was an ideal location […]
Posted inMusic
Shannon Candy has used quarantine to make her first solo album
Shannon Candy has used quarantine to make her first solo album, Izzy Yellen drops a decompression soundtrack of ambient guitar and banjo, and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Were Ben’s predictions correct?
He wrote this column Monday and said the winner would be . . .
Posted inMusic
Mr. Bungle re-form after a 20-year absence and get right back to trolling
I sometimes wonder if Mr. Bungle have been trolling their fans since day one. Their self-titled debut full-length, released in 1991 by Warner Brothers, is a blur of funk, ska, world music, and death metal that flips from Morbid Angel-influenced riffs to zany circus music and back on a dime. Formed by high school friends […]