Chicago native Tatiana Hazel has come a long way since she started uploading acoustic performances to YouTube as a preteen a decade ago. This past summer she dropped a new EP, And the World Will Turn (Creative Music Group/Tatiana Hazel), and though she made it in solitude, it’s clearly meant to be performed in front […]
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Get baked with Bambi Banks-Couleé
The drag superstar is decolonizing weed “from the kitchen to the couch” with her new cooking webseries.
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Bad Noids give you something non-terrible to scream about
Hollering along with Bad Noids’ punk rock is more fun than arguing with COVID deniers—and it’ll probably do more good.
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HotHouse meets Havana on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed for the HotHouse by graphic designer and photographer Shelley Hiam.
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Another Sunny Day wrote a theme song for the disillusioned
The late-80s solo project of UK songwriter Harvey Williams still resonates with indie-pop misanthropes.
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Tatiana Hazel knows she was meant to shine
Chicago native Tatiana Hazel has been on a journey that merges fashion, visual design, and music since she was 13 years old, when she began posting videos of herself singing and playing acoustic guitar on YouTube. Now in her early 20s, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has developed a solid following while deepening her talent for […]
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Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?
Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.
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‘Please stay at home’
From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.
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YouTube-famous Blue Line busker Ashley Stevenson drops her first studio album
YouTube-famous Blue Line busker Ashley Stevenson drops her first studio album, dirt-rock ragers Hitter release their debut full-length, and more.
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 15 and 16
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Meet the YouTube singing star of the Hakha Chin diaspora
Burmese refugee Elena HT Par, a high school student in Chicago, won the Chin Cable Network’s 2019 award for song of the year.
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With Piece of Mind, Hxry brings a laid-back vibe to Chicago’s R&B scene
Chicago R&B artist Hxry got his start as a producer—at least as far back as 2016, he was releasing stylistically scattershot instrumental tracks on Soundcloud—but he got his first real taste of success as a vocalist, with his 2018 song “Reasons.” Atop a fluttering synth melody and a suave, minimal rhythm section, Hxry gently sings […]
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Tate McRae is happy to sing sad pop
You’d think Tate McRae would have a lot to be happy about: at age 16 she’s already a successful ballet dancer who’s appeared on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. She’s also started a singing career, releasing videos to her own YouTube channel—which has 1.98 million subscribers. Nonetheless, her […]
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Chicago rapper 8MatikLogan hones a new pop edge that could make him a star
This summer Chicago rapper 8MatikLogan released “House of Pain,” a blazing, salacious single punctuated with tasteful claps. Its video is closing in on 400,000 YouTube views, and it could become an even bigger breakout success—which would be a long time coming for the MC. He started rapping in 2012 under the name Logan, and he’s […]
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Turning life lessons into a Korporate Bidness
“As long as I got YouTube and the latest iPhone, I’m Gucci.”