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• Knumears bring screamo fury to Beat Kitchen

  02-08-2024 23:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Los Angeles screamo trio Knumears take their name from “You and Me, Screaming Numb Ears,” a thrashing monster of a track by 90s emoviolence pioneers Honeywell. Their wonky spelling of the title nods to Knumears’ careening, overwhelming style of screamo—and acknowledges that even the best screamo vocalists sing in shredded smears, as though they’re vomiting […]
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• Chicago’s Holy Joke make wistful alt-country on a new EP

  02-08-2024 23:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This newish Chicago quartet, assembled by singer-songwriter Greg Taylor, has been building up steam for the past year with a busy gigging schedule and a smattering of Bandcamp singles. Taylor recorded the first Holy Joke EP, 2023’s No Way Home, as a solo affair, but for the project’s self-titled second EP, which came out last […]
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• Casa Desmadre showcases a riotous mix of Latine punk, hardcore, and dance music

  02-08-2024 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This Friday, Chicago art collective Ruidosa! takes over both floors of Schubas with Casa Desmadre (“messy house”), which promises to be a rager you’ll still be talking about next summer. The downstairs bill showcases Latine rock bands from Chicago and elsewhere in the midwest, and there’s not a buzzkill in the bunch. Chicago trio Repent […]
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• Phil Yates & the Affiliates can make feel-good music out of heartbreak

  02-08-2024 22:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Some singer-songwriters like to bask in their dark sides. Not Phil Yates. With his band the Affiliates, this Chicagoan makes indie rock and power pop where he comes across like a generally nice guy who wears his heart on his sleeve and finds joy in the little things. On “My Favorite Bag,” off 2018’s Party […]
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• Community Rallies to Support Family of Sonya Massey, Raising Over $500K

  02-08-2024 21:47
  
  The community has united in an extraordinary display of solidarity, raising more than $500,000 through a verified GoFundMe campaign for the family of Sonya Massey. The 36-year-old mother was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on July 6, after she called 911 to report a prowler in her backyard. This substantial outpouring of support arrives as the family intensifies their quest for justice in the wake of her tragic death.
  An update posted to the fundraiser on Tuesday reads: “Your cont
  
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• From Prison to Redemption: Mica Battle’s ‘Some Sort of Saint’ Hits the Stage

  02-08-2024 15:30
  
  Actor Ti-Nicole Danridge plays Mica Battle in “Some Sort of Saint” (Photo Provided).
  In the quiet moments of reflection, when the weight of her past bore heavily upon her, Mica Battle, a 2022 Chicago Defender Women of Excellence nominee, never imagined her life would be transformed into a theatrical production. A woman of indomitable spirit, she had weathered storms that would have broken many. From the harrowing depths of addiction to the confines of prison, Mica’s journey was
  
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• 10 Big Lies Trump and the Republicans Tell About Kamala Harris

  02-08-2024 15:15
  
  From claiming she isn’t Black to saying she was a DEI hire, Trump brought his lies about Kamala Harris to NABJ (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons).
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.
  By Keith Boykin
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• Black Man Who Spent Over 30 Years In Jail For Murder He Didn’t Commit Freed

  02-08-2024 14:00
  
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  A Missouri man has been freed after spending over 30 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, per NBC News.
  52-year-old Christopher Dunn was just 18 when he was falsely accused of fatally shooting Ricco Rogers in May 1990. Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
  As there was no physical evidence connecting Dunn to the crime, his conviction was largely based on testimony from two witnesses, ages 12
  
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• Los Rogileros perform a Mexican-Polish ballad of bad men at the next Monday Night Foodball

  02-08-2024 00:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  No one knows much about Los Rogileros. On recent weekends, the mysterious Norteño accordion–bajo sexto duo has set up guerilla-style in the parking lot of the Milwaukee-Belmont Shell station, playing hit-and-run sets of two to three conjuntos before disappearing into the night. The lyrics traffic strictly in the cutthroat—sometimes murderous—exploits of the city’s underground pop-up […]
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