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• William Parker, Hamid Drake, and Cooper-Moore court quiet transcendence in the Heart Trio 

  11-10-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  William Parker, Hamid Drake, and Cooper-Moore are the Heart Trio. They’ve just released their self-titled debut album on Aum Fidelity, but they have decades of shared history. Drake and Parker, since first recording together on the 1993 Peter Brötzmann album Die Like a Dog (just reissued on vinyl by Cien Fuegos), have evolved a dynamism […]
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• Punk warriors Poison Ruïn take on today’s battles on Confrere

  11-10-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m no expert, but I’d bet that Philadelphia dungeon-punk outfit Poison Ruïn are having more fun screwing around with medieval fantasy tropes than anybody since Monty Python went searching for the Holy Grail. On the cover of the self-titled 2022 release that combines their first two EPs, two knights wield spiked flails and hold shields […]
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• Portuguese experimentalist Rafael Toral launches an ambitious new phase 

  11-10-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Plenty has changed in Rafael Toral’s music throughout his career, but cross-fertilization and collisions of disparate methodologies have been constants. In the 1990s, the Lisbon-born artist made mostly guitar-based music, devising his own aesthetic from a starting point in the pure, resonant sound shared by American minimalists Phill Niblock and Alvin Lucier, like-minded Chicago experimentalist […]
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• Adam Schubert of Ulna digs through his past to nourish Chicago’s indie-rock present

  11-10-2024 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  While writing his second album under the name Ulna, Chicago singer-guitarist Adam Schubert contemplated his upbringing in suburban Northbrook, but the romantic dreariness that hangs over Gazebo (out last month on Shuga) sounds indebted to the indie rock of the Pacific Northwest. The scruffy warmth of Schubert’s arrangements contrasts with his occasionally irascible guitar chords, […]
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• Improvising guitarist and DIY mainstay Erica Dawn Lyle channels emotion through her instrument 

  11-10-2024 18:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Erica Dawn Lyle’s creativity has always been fluid. Many people first heard her when she joined the reunited Bikini Kill as a touring guitarist in 2019, but she’s a longtime mainstay of punk, DIY, and activist scenes. She’s been organizing and playing underground shows since she was a teenager in the early 90s, and she’s […]
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• Chicago alt-country eccentrics Souled American play their first shows in 13 years behind two overdue reissues

  11-10-2024 18:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago country eccentrics Souled American were ahead of the curve when it came to reimagining country music in the language of alternative rock. So ahead of the curve, in fact, that they seemed to exist apart from the contemporaneous No Depression scene, named after Uncle Tupelo’s 1990 debut album and bustling with indie Americana acts. […]
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• ‘The godfather of Latino theater in Chicago’

  11-10-2024 18:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As I was gearing up for the Reader coverage of this year’s Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, I received news of the death of Juan Ramirez, longtime artistic director of Latino Chicago Theater Company—a powerhouse in the 1980s and ’90s. The sad irony of losing one of the most vital forces for building up […]
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• Fall fashion focus

  11-10-2024 01:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  An international spotlight will focus on Chicago’s fashion scene this month as the inaugural Chicago Fashion Week (CFW) kicks off a nearly two-week-long schedule of events throughout the city. CFW celebrates Chicago’s contributions to the global fashion community and the city’s growth as a hub of internationally recognized designers and premiere fashion schools. The series […]
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