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• Prize Horse leave unique fingerprints on their familiar moody posthardcore

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Minneapolis trio Prize Horse play pensive, moody posthardcore whose burnished surfaces and carefully structured negative spaces give it remarkable depth. On their first full-length album, February’s Under Sound (on Chicago-based label New Morality Zine), they telegraph their affection for shoegaze with thunderhead-size riffs that can blot out the sky. Prize Horse also sound like big […]
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• Lutenist Jozef van Wissem accompanies F.W. Murnau’s silent film Nosferatu

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The Lute is Eternal,” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s 2023 single “The Call of the Deathbird.” The Dutch composer’s gruff vocals appear throughout the short film, shot in the vast Soviet mausoleum outside Warsaw, but his singing (and the relatively angelic voice of Hillary Woods) directs the listener […]
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• Hip-hop duo Billy Woods & Kenny Segal celebrate the fifth anniversary of Hiding Places

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rapper Billy Woods and producer Kenny Segal are one of hip-hop’s best duos, and this year they’ve joined forces again to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their 2019 album Hiding Places. A modern classic by most hip-hop metrics, the collaboration received plenty of acclaim and appeared on many best-of-year lists upon its release. Five years […]
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• Genre-bending pianist Robert Glasper celebrates a prolific year with a five-night run at City Winery

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Robert Glasper has seemingly endless creativity and drive. The pianist, producer, and arranger has released nearly 20 albums; he’s written or produced music for the likes of Herbie Hancock, Common, and Brittany Howard; and he’s scored several films, including the 2019 documentary The Apollo about the famed Harlem theater. Though Glasper is rooted in jazz, […]
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• Folk-pop newcomer Abby Sage leans into rot to find renewal

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Abby Sage makes gauzy folk-pop that evokes a romantic sense of decay, like a pink-wigged Marie Antoinette raking her finger through the frosting of a cake encrusted with maggots. Sage’s debut album, The Rot (Nettwerk), dropped in March, on the heels of one of last year’s biggest TikTok trends: bed rotting, which refers to staying […]
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• Cloud Nothings celebrate a decade of Here and Nowhere Else

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cloud Nothings formed in Cleveland and leveled up in Chicago. The trio, which evolved from a solo project of songwriter and guitarist Dylan Baldi, traded the sprightly power pop of their 2011 self-titled debut for serrated postgrunge skronk on 2012’s Attack on Memory, recorded with engineer Steve Albini at his Chicago studio Electrical Audio. Cloud […]
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• Blood Incantation’s death-metal masterpiece Absolute Elsewhere exceeds the hype

  23-11-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Blood Incantation’s fourth album, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media), has been getting a ton of attention since it was released in October, and with good reason: it’s equally awe-inspiring and groundbreaking. The Denver-based band had already generated some crossover buzz with their second record, 2019’s Hidden History of the Human Race, which blended classic, pummeling, American-style […]
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