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• Footballhead’s mammoth Before I Die should be an alt-rock hit

  13-09-2024 20:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I can’t listen to the Footballhead mini album Before I Die (Tiny Engines), which came out in August, without thinking of an interview I did with front man Ryan Nolen last September: we talked on the phone for nearly an hour because I was writing about the death of one of his best friends, Space […]
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• Caterina Barbieri sails into the seas of a retro future

  13-09-2024 20:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The music of Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist Caterina Barbieri shimmers and pulses at the intersection of ambient, new age, minimalist electronics, and drone. She uses primarily modular synthesizers to build her tracks, creating canvases of sustained tones that spread flat like aural wallpaper and then splashing them with digital and analog color, including guitar, strings, […]
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• Thievery Corporation bring their “outernationalist” electronic music to Outset

  13-09-2024 20:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Calling Thievery Corporation “eclectic” is an understatement—their sound’s been described as downtempo, but it can also light up a dance party. Cofounders Eric Hilton and Rob Garza would likely blanch at attempts to define their band within any category—though ambient, trip-hop, house, and global fusion all come to mind. They borrow from a variety of […]
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• Chicago rapper Femdot. celebrates his 2019 breakthrough album, 94 Camry Music

  13-09-2024 20:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Evanston-raised rapper Femdot., born Femi Adigun, upholds the broad-shouldered, self-assured poetry of homegrown hip-hop to rep Chicago with an artisan’s touch. His signature pencil-behind-the-ear aesthetic and million-dollar smile telegraph his dedication to writing impactful lyrics and doing what he can to strategically win at the game of life. Education is also a pillar of his […]
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• POWERPLANT

  13-09-2024 19:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The term “egg punk” didn’t initially see much use outside of niche memes that placed it on one end of a spectrum that had “chain punk” at the other. It described a loose network of underground midwestern bands in the early 2010s whose wacky experiments with hardcore punk sounded like an agitated Devo buzzing from […]
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• London miscreants Powerplant offer a thrillingly misshapen vision of egg punk

  13-09-2024 19:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The term “egg punk” didn’t initially see much use outside of niche memes that placed it on one end of a spectrum that had “chain punk” at the other. It described a loose network of underground midwestern bands in the early 2010s whose wacky experiments with hardcore punk sounded like an agitated Devo buzzing from […]
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• The Englewood Jazz Festival celebrates 25 years of music and community

  13-09-2024 19:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This week the Englewood Jazz Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with three days of music in Hamilton Park—a remarkable achievement, especially considering the neighborhood Whole Foods lasted just six years. The determination of the festival’s visionary founder, saxophonist Ernest Dawkins, and a host of local supporters have made this community event much more than an […]
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• Review: The Killer’s Game

  13-09-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Killer’s Game in wide release in theaters
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• Blake Chastain on #exvangelicals

  13-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2016, Chicagoan Blake Chastain started the hashtag #exvangelical, a pithy descriptor that quickly took off as an umbrella term for anyone who has left evangelical Christianity. Faith changes are not a new phenomenon, but over the past decade, exvangelicals have found new ways to form community through social media. Their journeys take divergent paths, […]
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