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• Sen Morimoto’s Diagnosis points to an antidote for our rotten times

  13-11-2023 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  Last month at the ChiTown Movies drive-in, Chicago art-pop musician Sen Morimoto hosted a listening party for his new third album, Diagnosis (City Slang/Sooper), that included a screening of Brian De Palma’s 1974 florid horror-comedy rock opera, Phantom of the Paradise. De Palma’s sui generis skewering of the music industry—of how its financial imperatives corrode […]
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• Noname brings the intimate conversations of Sundial to the Vic

  13-11-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The songs of Chicago rapper Noname feel like opening a door into a roomful of friends who are already hours into an all-consuming conversation. Throughout her self-released new third full-length, Sundial, she cracks jokes, asks questions about race and Blackness that you’ll need to sit with, thinks out loud about how her skills create demand […]
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• Lapgan borrows from South Asian music for idiosyncratic hip-hop instrumentals

  13-11-2023 15:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago hip-hop producer Lapgan, real name Gaurav Nagpal, samples and blends music from the South Asian diaspora—which has helped him learn more about the breadth and depth of music from the Indian subcontinent. On his most recent trip to India to visit family, Lapgan met a vital collaborator, voracious music collector Nishant Mittal, who runs […]
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• Local metalcore masters Harm’s Way welcome Common Suffering alongside a reunited Weekend Nachos

  13-11-2023 15:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Whether playing straightedge powerviolence in their early days or making Godflesh-inspired death metal on 2018’s Rust, Harm’s Way have always been incredibly heavy, aggressive, and mean as hell. In September, the Chicago metalcore outfit released their fifth full-length, Common Suffering (their second for venerable extreme label Metal Blade), where they double down on groovy, industrial-flavored […]
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• Femdot’s Free Samples has all the suave and speedy raps you need

  13-11-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Femi Adigun, aka Chicago rapper Femdot (styled as femdot.) delivers his quicksilver raps with a smooth confidence that draws me in like a giant horseshoe magnet in an old cartoon. Lately I’ve mostly thought about one particular track from his September release Free Samples Vol. 2 (Delacreme Music Group): “Missy Elliott,” which reminds me less […]
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• Pauli the PSM brings tenderness and pleasure to Lincoln Hall

  13-11-2023 14:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pauli the PSM is saucy—and he knows it. He’s an influential figure in the British music industry and a professional hottie who’s consciously taken his sweet time building a solo career. He entered the field as Pauli Lovejoy after winning the UK’s Young Drummer of the Year award in 2005. He’s gone on to be […]
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• Palehound bring the heavy-hitting breakup album Eye on the Bat to the Empty Bottle

  13-11-2023 14:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Anyone who’s ever told you to keep your eye on the ball has clearly never been hit by a bat. El Kempner, who makes music as Palehound, has learned the lesson instilled in me during a decade of midwestern softball: the importance of staying vigilant toward potential dangers and adversaries in your midst. “Suckers will […]
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• Fulcrum Point presents the midwest premiere of La Monte Young’s The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer

  13-11-2023 14:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The influence that composer and musician La Monte Young has exerted far exceeds the size of his slender and erratically available discography. Born in 1935, he presented some of his early compositions at a concert series he programmed at Yoko Ono’s loft in 1960, and they helped shape minimalist composition and conceptual art. He accidentally […]
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• Out of sight, out of mind

  13-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortions nationwide, local abortion funds and abortion care providers are still reeling as many navigate a dip in donations and a new state of reproductive health care in […]
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