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• Sharp Pins’ homegrown power pop sounds as big as the stars

  14-06-2024 20:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2021, Lifeguard singer-guitarist Kai Slater began publishing Hallogallo, a zine that documents the young Chicago indie-rock scene that’s taken the Hallogallo name as its own—he’s not just an active member of this community but also a kind of figurehead. Slater’s zine provides a window into his own tastes too, and he’s interviewed some big […]
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• Our Work

  14-06-2024 19:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Stavroula Harissis
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• Thalia Hall hosts a triple-header of slow-burning heavy music

  14-06-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mind Burns Alive, the new fifth studio album by Pallbearer, is a strong, diverse effort that weaves existential emotional vulnerability through a crush of heavy doom with progressive spacey pacing. Little Rock’s loudest exports are experts at building tension, and when they do finally deliver a payoff, it emphasizes the conflicted hopes and naked longing […]
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• Pakistani qawwali ensemble the Saami Brothers showcase ancient traditions in a rare Chicago performance

  14-06-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing is in keeping with the long, slow development of the qawwali tradition, which has been growing for more than 800 years. Qawwali has origins as […]
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• Jean Deaux finds a shining new beginning on Nowhere, Fast

  14-06-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last spring, Chicago R&B artist Jean Deaux performed a show while recovering from laryngitis, and it turned out she wasn’t nearly healed enough: she caused herself a vocal injury that kept her offstage for a year. “I had to go see a specialist and they told me I had to be on vocal rest for […]
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• Jake Meginsky brings his percussive electronic improvisations to the Experimental Sound Studio garden

  14-06-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’ll never lack for things to do on a summery Sunday afternoon in Chicago, but the Option Series is one of a kind. Curated by musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Glick Finnegan, and Ken Vandermark, it presents weekly performances and conversations with improvising musicians in the backyard of the Experimental Sound Studio (in the event of […]
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• Cedric Burnside embodies raw, electric Mississippi blues

  14-06-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Singer, guitarist, and drummer Cedric Burnside comes from a long line of blues performers; his grandfather is cultishly beloved guitarist and singer R.L. Burnside, and his father is blues drummer Calvin Jackson. He started touring at age 13 and had roughly 30 years of experience under his belt by the time he won his first […]
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• Argentina’s Kumbia Queers bring their political tropic punk to Chicago

  14-06-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2007, six Buenos Aires musicians—veterans of iconic Latin American punk bands, including Argentina’s She-Devils and Mexico’s Las Ultrasónicas—joined forces to create their own kind of cumbia. Their feverish, vibrant, and decidedly queer take on the venerable genre sounded light-years away not just from the usual wedding-celebration favorites but also from the grungy cumbia villera […]
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• Shelter evictions, City Council spat, mobile DMV

  14-06-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You don’t have to go home . . . Chicago officials are ramping up the pace of evictions at city-run shelters for asylum seekers and other new arrivals, the Chicago Tribune reports, now including families with young children among those forced out by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 60-day stay limit. It’s the second major round of […]
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• Review: Inside Out 2

  14-06-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Our emotions often run rampant, oscillating between immeasurable joy and profound sadness in seconds. Learning to teach our internal voices to live in harmony is a lifelong (and unforgiving) endeavor. Yet, there is a universally hellish phase where this challenge feels more impossible by the day: puberty.  That’s where we find Riley (Kensington Tallman), the […]
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• Chicago Celebrates Juneteenth with Spectacular Events and Festivities

  14-06-2024 16:00
  
  Chicago’s diverse Juneteenth celebrations honor the legacy of freedom with community events, festivals, and educational activities. From historical reflections to vibrant festivities, the city commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people and the ongoing pursuit of equity and justice.
  On June 19, 1865, two years (and a half) after Abraham Lincoln declared enslaved people free, Texans still bound by the rules of slavery were finally set free. However, it wasn’t until Union troops r
  
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• Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit From Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors

  14-06-2024 14:30
  
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  Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre seeking reparations, Reuters reports.
  The move upheld a judge’s decision last year to dismiss the case for reparations for the violence and destruction of Black Wall Street, located in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, in 1921. Roughly 300 Black people were killed by a white mob that attacked the community.
  Lawyers for the survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, and 110-ye
  
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• Chicago Legend Buddy Guy to Join NASCAR Chicago Street Race for a Special Main Stage Performance on July 6

  14-06-2024 05:45
  
  This week, NASCAR announced that one of Chicago’s most beloved legends, Buddy Guy, will play a special set at the Chicago Street Race Weekend on Saturday, July 6. One of Rolling Stone’s “greatest guitarists of all time,” the hometown icon will bring his hallmark Chicago Blues sound to the main stage, following a special 40th Anniversary Chicago House Music showcase.
  “Last year’s Chicago Street Race was a great opportunity to put Chicago center-stage and I&rsqu
  
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