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• Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar speaks truth to power on the fiery Funeral for Justice

  10-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mdou Moctar was born to shred. The spirit of rock ’n’ roll lies deep in his soul and pulses through his fingertips every time he grabs his ax. When Moctar was growing up in Niger, his parents disapproved of rock music, but he was so determined to play electric guitar that he built one in […]
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• Sensor Ghost expand the bounds of D.C. punk with their skewed songs

  10-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sensor Ghost’s brief, bitten-off art-punk songs slice through the air like an alarm clock buzz-sawing into your sleeping brain. The D.C. trio partake of their hometown’s storied punk legacy, and all three members are scene veterans. Guitarist Amanda Huron established herself with the mid-90s emo band Impetus Inter, and more recently she played in a […]
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• Orville Peck’s outlaw country spectacle stampedes into Chicago

  10-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before Beyoncé came strolling in with Cowboy Carter, another provocateur was stirring up the country scene and challenging perceptions of what Americana can be. Out-and-proud gay crooner Orville Peck merges the classic outlaw styles of Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings with a modern-rock bent that often diverges into gothic atmospherics—on his 2019 single “Dead of […]
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• Nourished by Time makes collage art out of funky, R&B-infused synth-pop

  10-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nostalgia-drenched synth-pop projects are thick on the ground right now, but few feel as fresh as Nourished by Time, the solo project of Marcus Brown. This music sounds like what might happen if Boys II Men wrote songs with Siouxsie & the Banshees while crammed inside a teen girl’s closet. It’s as kaleidoscopic as studying […]
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• Monsieur Periné animate their cosmopolitan Afro-Colombian fusion with romance and humor

  10-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Monsieur Periné are musical maximalists. Based in Bogotá, Colombia, they write songs informed by a wealth of Afro-Colombian, European, and Latine styles, and they sing in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese. The ensemble, led by vocalist Catalina García and multi-instrumentalist Santiago Prieto, formed in 2007 and started out playing covers at weddings and corporate events […]
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• Hip-hop polymath Rich Robbins celebrates a year of Soft and Tender with a big hometown show

  10-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rich Robbins was voted “Best individual hip-hop artist” in the Reader’s 2023 Best of Chicago audience poll, but he’s much more than a rapper. He’s real soft, real tender, and so dedicated to his craft that he almost got hit by a car while trying to film content for his 2023 single with Mick Jenkins, […]
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• Thousands Wear Orange to Honor Hadiya Pendleton and Raise Awareness on Gun Violence

  10-06-2024 16:57
  
  By Ashleigh Fields
  Thousands remembered the life and legacy of Hadiya Pendleton on June 7 by wearing orange for Hadiya Pendlet. Pendleton, a teen shot and killed in Chicago on Jan. 29, 2013, a week after performing for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration and less than a mile from his Chicago residence, is a striking reminder that gun violence hits way too close to home for many. 
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• Armed Cops Barge Into Home, Arrest Black Father & Son Without Warrant

  10-06-2024 14:45
  
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  An Indiana man is seeking justice after police officers entered his home and made multiple arrests without a warrant.
  Video obtained by WLFI shows Lafayette Police Department officers entering the home of William Neal without a warrant on May 21. Neal said police told him that they were conducting a wellness check because they had reason to believe that someone was hurt inside.
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• ‘Karen’ Threatens To Call Security On Black Woman For Using Bathroom

  10-06-2024 14:15
  
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  A white woman is being dubbed a “Karen” after she threatened to call security on a Black woman for using a public bathroom in their workplace.
  A video of the encounter, which unfolded at a law firm in Buffalo, New York last week, was shared by TikTok user @topcat716. In the video, the Black woman appeared to be exiting a communal bathroom when the white woman confronted her.
  “Can I ask who you report to so I can call the law firm?” the white woman ask
  
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• Illinois promised to help with funeral costs for children lost to gun violence. Only two families benefitted.

  10-06-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was originally published by the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. The Mychal Moultry Jr. Funeral and Burial Assistance Program is supposed to give Illinois families with severe financial needs up to $10,000 to help bury children under 17 who were killed by gun violence. But […]
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• How to apply for funeral and burial assistance in Illinois

  10-06-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was originally published by the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. If you or someone you know had a child under 17 who was killed by gun violence, you might be eligible for compensation from the state of Illinois to cover funeral and burial costs. The […]
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