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• Chicago doom-folk outfit Huntsmen confront personal ups and downs on The Dry Land

  24-05-2024 22:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago quintet Huntsmen made waves with their 2018 debut full-length, American Scrap (Prosthetic). The record’s distinctive sound blends heavy doom with dark folk and Americana, a combination so intuitive that it’s hard to remember it wasn’t already an established genre. Two years later, Huntsmen’s follow-up, the March 2020 release Mandala of Fear, is an ambitious […]
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• Chicago footwork producer Heavee brings his immersive vision to Smart Bar

  24-05-2024 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As Heavee, Chicago producer Darryl Bunch Jr. is responsible for some of the most inventive footwork tracks in recent memory. In March, Hyperdub released his album Unleashed, which offsets its polyrhythmic aggression with melodic serenity. Bunch likes to evoke video-game scores in his work, and Unleashed sometimes includes parts that recall, say, Super Mario 64, […]
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• That unrelenting buzz is the sound of a new summer schedule for Monday Night Foodball

  24-05-2024 20:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hark! What’s that sound? That pulsating drone rising and falling amid the leafy, green canopy? It sounds like the sizzle of bison fat dropping on hardwood lump charcoal. Or it’s the snap of smoldering white oak and the fizz of icy cold beer. It has a bewitching aroma too—tangy fermented dough swelling into fresh, hot […]
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• UK punk legends the Damned reunite with their founding drummer to make noise, noise, noise

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You can keep your Clash and your Sex Pistols; when it comes to pioneering British punk acts, this closet pogo fiend will choose the Damned every time. The Damned roared out of the gate in November 1976 and became the first UK punk band to release a single—the irresistibly propulsive “New Rose.” Since then, the […]
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• The Chicago House Music Festival makes its grand return to Millennium Park

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events debuted the Chicago House Music Festival in Millennium Park on Memorial Day weekend in 2018. Even in its first year, the fest felt like part of a tradition, because the city had presented house-music events in the same place at around the same time for years. On […]
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• Mysterious Australian instrumental trio Glass Beams make their Chicago debut

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Melbourne instrumental trio Glass Beams have crafted a distinct sound that blends influences from Indian classical music with elements of disco, funk, surf rock, and more. The band formed in 2020, and within a year they’d captivated an international audience with the strength of their debut EP, Mirage. While Glass Beams’ profile has continued to […]
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• Japanese art-rockers Melt-Banana have spent decades perfecting their mash-up of spasmodic noise 

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Japanese art-rock outfit Melt-Banana have been making sharp, spasmodic noise for 32 years. In that time, their approach hasn’t changed so much as they’ve gotten better at what they’ve always done. Their music pairs the energy of a sugar-crazed child with the sophistication of a lighting grid—it’s strangely angular in a way that feels technical […]
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• Inspired by migrating wildlife, sound artist Olivia Block returns to singing after three decades

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Olivia Block came to Chicago from Texas in 1996, she’d already given up singing in order to focus on the collection and manipulation of sound. Her practice since then has ranged widely, encompassing orchestral compositions, musique concrète–inspired collages of found and performed materials, and site-specific works with which she’s invited listeners to perceive in […]
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• Cult blackgaze project Sadness makes its live debut

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Damián Antón Ojeda launched the solo blackgaze project Sadness while living in Oak Park a decade ago and quickly attracted a cult following with music that braids together the serene melodies of shoegaze, the majestic splendor of postrock, and the volatile melodrama of black metal. Ojeda divides his time among several musical endeavors, each devoted […]
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• Chicago indie rockers Babe Report deliver a lean, huge-sounding debut

  24-05-2024 19:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Babe Report’s new debut album, Did You Get Better (Exploding in Sound), delivers unfussy pop songs on the back of straightforwardly fuzzy guitars and colossal punk rhythms—it wastes no time rocking. Jefferson Park residents Ben Grigg and Emily Bernstein launched Babe Report during the pandemic lockdown, with Bernstein playing guitar, Grigg playing everything else, and […]
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• Groups call for community control of police, City Council advances ShotSpotter proposal, police misconduct settlements approved

  24-05-2024 17:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Advocates renew push for direct community control of police Members of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression gathered at City Hall on Wednesday, joined by allies on the City Council, to mark the introduction of a referendum that would overhaul the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA). The CCPSA, created in […]
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• Angel Reese Joins Ownership Group Or New Women’s Soccer Team In D.C.

  24-05-2024 16:30
  
  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
  She’s already captivated the sports world, made a successful foray into modeling, and is changing the endorsement game for women’s collegiate and professional basketball. Now, Angel Reese, the standout women’s basketball player from Maryland, has been announced as a founding owner of the DC Power Football Club, a new professional women’s soccer team launching in Washington. 
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• The Story Behind ‘To Walk in My Shoes’ Summer Kickoff, Which Returns May 26

  24-05-2024 16:00
  
  Shrone Conaway, Co-Chief Executive Officer of “To Walk in My Shoes” and a West Garfield Park-Austin native on Chicago’s West Side, is working to help the community that helped her. 
  When it comes to her mission, Conaway is even more emphatic: “I have to save the community that once saved me.
  Her journey from grappling with personal trials to leading a transformative nonprofit is a testament to her unwavering commitment to uplifting people in her community. She is pla
  
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• Rhino Fest offers theatrical symbiosis

  24-05-2024 15:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In terms of symbiotic relationships in nature, I’ve always been struck by the one between the oxpecker bird and the rhinoceros. The birds hang out on the backs of the rhinos, ingesting ticks (and sometimes blood) off the thick hides of their hosts. And they also serve as an early-warning system against poachers, making hissing […]
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• How Detroit techno is preserving the city’s beating heart in the face of gentrification

  24-05-2024 14:00
  
  Detroit, the birthplace of techno, is facing the pressures of gentrification. Willie Orlando Ford, CC BYby Carla Vecchiola, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  For over two decades, Detroit has celebrated its status as the birthplace of techno with an electronic music festival held over Memorial Day weekend.
  But like the city around it, the festival has changed. At its inception, the event was free and focused on techno music and Detroit musicians, primarily the Black Americans who started techno &n
  
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• 17-Year-Old Rapper Accidentally Shoots Himself Dead In Social Media Video

  24-05-2024 14:00
  
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  A young rapper in Virginia was found dead after accidentally shooting himself in a video posted on social media.
  17-year-old Raleigh Freeman lll, known as Rylo Huncho on TikTok, died on May 15 from a self-inflicted gun wound, per WAVY News.
  Prior to his death, Freeman had posted a video on social media of him holding a gun with a green laser and flashlight attached. Freeman was toying around with the gun before he appeared to point it at the side of his head with his finger on th
  
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