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• A. Savage returns to the U.S. for an intimate two-night stand at the Empty Bottle

  27-09-2024 21:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Longing is the painful emotion that grows in the fertile expanse between desire and possibility. A. Savage’s solo work thrives in this space. As one of the front men for Brooklyn mainstays Parquet Courts, Savage made a mark on the 2010s indie-rock scene with his sharply observational songwriting and deadpan vocals. In his solo work, […]
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• Twin Talk achieve the freewheeling beauty of their live show on a new studio album 

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The instrumentation of Twin Talk—tenor sax, double bass, drums, and vocals—suggests a traditional jazz combo, but the long-running Chicago group have carved out a singular niche. The trio’s members are all heavyweights in their own right, with broad creative networks. Saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi has a deep catalog as bandleader; bassist and singer Katie Ernst is […]
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• Panopticon refines its dark pastoral vision of Appalachian black metal

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Austin Lunn’s most recent album as Panopticon, 2023’s The Rime of Memory (Bindrune), is in some ways his most traditional black-metal outing. The Louisville musician expanded the possibilities of the genre when he saturated his fifth record, 2012’s Kentucky, with Appalachian folk interpolations and explicit pro-labor ecological politics. While those elements are still present on […]
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• London producer Tim Reaper leads a new wave of jungle around the world

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In July 2020, East London dance producer Tim Reaper (born Ed Alloh) released the first EP in his ongoing series Meeting of the Minds: on each track, he collaborated with a different artist. Reaper is a leading figure in the recent wave of new artists making jungle—this dense, percussively busy style, an ancestor of drum […]
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• J.R.C.G. bring their trippy, percussive sound to the Empty Bottle

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  J.R.C.G. knows how to bang it out. The band is the J.R.C.G. has a similarly drippy, smeary aesthetic, but it’s distinguished by the generous use of percussion. At live shows, several players beat and bounce on various instruments—maracas, tambourines, an auxiliary stand-up drum kit, a sampler pad—to generate rhythms while feeding off one another’s energy. […]
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• Czech prog-punk band Už Jsme Doma play a rare Chicago show at an intimate space

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Czech prog-punk band Už Jsme Doma formed in 1985, four years before the country’s Velvet Revolution brought four decades of communist rule to a peaceful end. Before the revolution, the authorities suppressed anything they perceived as Western rock music, and Už Jsme Doma could perform only covertly; what recordings they could make circulated like samizdat. […]
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• After a two-year hiatus, Cupcakke tours to support a delectably raunchy new album

  27-09-2024 21:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pearl clutchers beware! Chicago rapper and singer Cupcakke is back with her spicy brand of femme-fatale-forward hip-hop. Born Elizabeth Harris on the city’s south side, Cupcakke had an exceedingly rough childhood, and she doesn’t shy away from talking about her experience of homelessness, predation, and sexual violence. She’s among the upper echelon of local lyricists, […]
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• Dean Carter released one of the most otherworldly rockabilly singles ever made

  27-09-2024 21:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Secret History of Chicago Music sometimes travels a bit—to cover a special subject, I’ve extended my range northwest to Rockford, west to Geneva, and southwest to Belleville. For this installment, we head 150 miles south to Danville, a city of about 29,000 on the Indiana border. Danville was founded in 1827 on land that […]
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• Diana Solis and Patric McCoy document LGBTQ+ joy

  27-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is something extraordinary about physical photo albums for me. There’s a warm feeling of belonging that accompanies each page turned, as new perspectives are gained of stories I’m only vaguely familiar with. Photo albums enliven personal histories when words can’t convey the depth of the moment. I was reminded of this sensation while visiting […]
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• Worlds collide with Chacko’s Tacos at the next Monday Night Foodball

  27-09-2024 00:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2015, James Kanookadan showed up at a downtown hotel ballroom with a bunch of Tupperware containers and mason jars and threw together a Kerala fried chicken sandwich with mango pickle mayo in four minutes. It got him past the first round of auditions for MasterChef. In 2024, he showed up on the patio of […]
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