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• Drummer Jim White and guitarist Marisa Anderson craft a weird, soothing hybrid

  25-04-2024 23:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  To a large extent, classical music and popular music are separate traditions with distinct audiences. No one told folk guitarist Marisa Anderson and indie-rock drummer Jim White, though. Their second album together, the new Swallowtail (Thrill Jockey), is a mix of abstract exploration and gentle folk melody that thoughtfully wanders through a landscape that’s part […]
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• London’s Folly Group soothe anxieties with gorgeous postpunk and electronica

  25-04-2024 22:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Folly Group’s “Paying the Price” is one of the best electronica-infused postpunk songs about shame, and it’s only a B side. The band’s singles—of which they’ve dropped plenty since debuting with “Fashionista” in 2021—land with the digital punch of Sonic the Hedgehog and the spooky polish of Joy Division. The London quartet are on their […]
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• Bears’ $5 Billion Stadium Proposal, No. 1 Draft Pick Shows Team Reinventing Itself

  25-04-2024 22:18
  
  The Chicago Bears’ $5 billion proposal for a brand new lakefront stadium, ahead of their anticipated No. 1 overall pick at tonight’s NFL Draft, marks an inflection point for a franchise reimagining itself for the future. 
  Under the plan, the new stadium would be built next to the current Soldier Field, one of the NFL’s smaller venues. It would sport a translucent roof and enormous windows to allow natural light to enter while providing spectacular views of the city’s
  
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• Chicago pianist Erwin Helfer is celebrated by musical friends and peers

  25-04-2024 22:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pianist Erwin Helfer is a local hero who has made a global impact. The 88-year-old musician is resolute in his devotion to early blues, jazz, and ragtime piano, and he’s taught his emotional, succinct style to legions of students. This month, Helfer’s Highland Park–based label, the Sirens, hosts a celebration of his music and influence […]
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• Japanese multi-instrumentalist Eiko Ishibashi performs a live score for the Chicago debut of Gift

  25-04-2024 22:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Even if Japanese songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Eiko Ishibashi collaborated with Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi only once, I’d be grateful. When I saw Hamaguchi’s celebrated 2021 movie, Drive My Car, at the Siskel Film Center (it won an Oscar for Best International Feature Film a couple months later), Ishibashi’s pensive, understated score charmed me completely. […]
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• Experimental-minded locals Meth. find catharsis in bruising noise 

  25-04-2024 22:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the Reader checked in with local noisemaking polymath Seb Alvarez in 2022, he’d turned his creative focus away from his band Meth. and toward the beats-blasted experimental side project Virgin Mother. In that context, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist made a weirdo junkyard-fi racket with members of rising Rockford screamo outfit Frail Body and many […]
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• Lutenist Jozef van Wissem portrays forces of life and death on two new albums

  25-04-2024 21:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The Lute is Eternal” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s recent single, “The Call of the Deathbird.” The Dutch composer’s gruff vocals appear throughout the short film, shot in the vast Soviet mausoleum outside Warsaw, but his singing (and the relative angelic voice of Hillary Woods) directs the listener […]
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• UK rap royal Giggs makes his first North American headlining tour

  25-04-2024 21:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Giggs’s self-released debut full-length, Walk in da Park, is a landmark album in UK hip-hop history, and almost 16 years after its release, the London rapper is making his first North American headlining tour. Giggs still has the coiled menace and cool-headed flow that made his breakout single, the 2007 freestyle “Talkin the Hardest,” a […]
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• Survivor contestant Ben Katzman proves that shredding and DIY touring can prepare you for anything 

  25-04-2024 21:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Countless Survivor contestants have turned to the camera during their confessionals to express the difficult and draining nature of the game—the physical and mental exhaustion, the lack of food, and the constant close proximity to others take an immense toll. Most cast members find this kind of precarity new and very destabilizing. But season 46 […]
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• How Black Sports Agents Are Making A Bigger Impact On The Business Of NFL

  25-04-2024 18:53
  
  The lives of numerous athletes will be changed today as the NFL Draft kicks off in Detroit. Following the excitement of being selected by an NFL franchise, the players and their families will have to get down to business. Salary negotiations are inevitable, and the right sports agent can help players gain millions when it comes to performance incentives. 
   
  But when it comes to sports agents, the lack of diversity is glaring. Although there are 57.5% of Black players in the NFL, there
  
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• Barrie Cole: Chicago’s short-order chef of language and empathy

  25-04-2024 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I saw my first Barrie Cole play the night before the world turned upside down.  On September 10, 2001, I trotted over to Curious Theatre Branchʼs home in the now defunct Lunar Cabaret space on North Lincoln to see To Relax and Laugh in that year’s edition of the Rhino Fest. In Cole’s one-act play, […]
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• Black Man Shot and Killed By Police After Falling Asleep In Car, Family Says

  25-04-2024 14:00
  
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  A family is seeking justice after a 20-year-old Black man was fatally shot by police after they said he fell asleep in his car in Richmond, Virginia.
  “My son impacted peoples’ lives and never wanted to do anybody any harm or anything,” Latoya Hardney, the victim’s mother, told 8News. “He was just a lovable person, he would make you smile. He would sit down to talk to you and talk to you for hours, and that’s just the type of person he was.&
  
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• Black Man Shot & Killed By Police After Falling Asleep In Car, Family Says

  25-04-2024 14:00
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  A family is seeking justice after a 20-year-old Black man was fatally shot by police after they said he fell asleep in his car in Richmond, Virginia.
  “My son impacted peoples’ lives and never wanted to do anybody any harm or anything,” Latoya Hardney, the victim’s mother, told 8News. “He was just a lovable person, he would make you smile. He would sit down to talk to you and talk to you for hours, and that’s just the type of person he was.&
  
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