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• Nineties Japanese trip-hop artist Poison Girl Friend finally comes to Chicago

  25-10-2024 23:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Noriko Sekiguchi, better known as Poison Girl Friend, is behind some of the most lustrous downtempo, trip-hop, and late-night pop music in post–economic bubble Japan. The Yokohama-born artist was inspired by the British clubs she visited in 1989 and soon began utilizing a drum machine to make her own pop music. By 1990 she’d returned […]
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• Stevie Wonder celebrates love, unity, and democracy at the United Center

  25-10-2024 23:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As a 13-year-old girl falling in love with music, I inhaled my mother’s massive Motown Records collection. Her Stevie Wonder albums became my obsession, and the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist quickly rose to the very top of the list of musicians I’ll forever revere. Three decades later, nothing has changed. Wonder still has my respect and […]
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• Shoegaze misfits Swirlies return to the road with the style they’ve helped shape newly in vogue

  25-10-2024 23:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Swirlies formed in 1990, after Boston punk Rusty Nails (who’d later move to Chicago and make the underground horror flick Acne) tried to start a Go-Go’s cover band with guitarists and singers Damon Tutunjian and Seana Carmody. Nails soon moved on, but Tutunjian and Carmody kept going, switching tracks to write original material that drew […]
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• Foxing scream their way back to greatness

  25-10-2024 23:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Almost a year ago, Saint Louis emo band Foxing took a joint headlining tour with the Hotelier from Worcester, Massachusetts, playing 16 dates in November and 17 more in February. Both groups performed early-career albums in their entirety: The Albatross (2013) and Home, Like Noplace Is There (2014), respectively. They billed the tour as a […]
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• Bronze celebrate their second full-length of smooth, cinematic sounds

  25-10-2024 23:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bronze have been crafting hushed, cinematic tunes for two decades, and on their new self-titled LP, these soft-pop perfectionists might’ve reached their melodious apex. The group formed in 1999, after singer Scott McGaughey and multi-instrumentalist Dylan Ryan met as English majors at DePaul and bonded over noisy underground music. (Ryan has drummed in rock and […]
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• Nick Gravenites deserves the same shine as his rock-star friends

  25-10-2024 20:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When a local musical hero passes away, the Secret History of Chicago Music considers it a duty to make sure they get the accolades they deserve. When blues-rock innovator Nick Gravenites died last month, I saw disappointingly few obituaries for this Chicago-born singer-songwriter and guitarist, mostly from outlets on the coasts—so here we are.  Nicholas […]
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• Some Like It Hot sizzles on tour

  25-10-2024 18:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s screenplay for 1959’s Some Like It Hot (directed by Wilder) was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (colloquially known as the Hays Code) because it featured cross-dressing. Its subsequent success is attributed as another nail in the coffin of the suffocating moralism of the Hays Code, which […]
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