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The Chicago music duo Air Credits
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Chicago’s Air Credits are still having a ball with their dystopian visions

by Leor Galil August 17, 2021May 9, 2022

Few pop acts are quite as prepared to engage with climate change as Chicago’s Air Credits. Since 2016, rapper ShowYouSuck (aka Clinton Sandifer) and producer Steve Reidell (half of the Hood Internet) have turned dystopian nightmares into strangely joyful songs. There’s catharsis to be found in these missives from a future where oxygen is a […]

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Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil February 4, 2020August 18, 2021

Spektral Quartet bring a mind-expanding program (and Julia Holter) to the Music Box, the Synthesizer-Chili Cookoff signs off with its tenth installment, and more.

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