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•  Microplastique synthesize traditions of toy-instrument experiments on their debut

  07-12-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Playfulness and purposeful converge in the music of Microplastique. The quartet’s membership includes some of Chicago’s busiest and most engaged rising improvisers. Percussionist and composer Adam Shead leads his own bands, plays in a collaborative free-improv trio with Jason Stein and Damon Smith, and runs the Irritable Mystic label—which just released Microplastique’s debut album, Bare […]
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• Machine Girl straddles the line between hardcore punk and hardcore rave music

  07-12-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Machine Girl makes rave music for weebs who’ve read American Hardcore. Long Island producer and vocalist Matt Stephenson launched the project as a solo effort in 2012, and its 2014 debut, WLFGRL, has aged like decadent toilet wine. The cover art features a close-up of a snarling prop werewolf head and Japanese text that translates […]
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• Local death-metal bands Molder and Primal Code celebrate new albums at Reggies

  07-12-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s metal scene has a well-deserved reputation as one of the country’s most eclectic and prolific. As 2024 comes to a close, local fans can celebrate their good fortune with a stacked double album-release show headlined by two of the area’s grimiest death-metal purveyors. Joliet four-piece Molder released Engrossed in Decay in 2022 and have […]
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• Japanese producer Foodman creates eclectic tracks as inventive as they are playful

  07-12-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Takahide Higuchi is drawn to simple pleasures. The Japanese producer also known as Foodman first created music in a PlayStation game called Depth, and his rudimentary experiments with the technology sparked an understanding that anyone can be an artist, regardless of skill or expertise. That notion in turn informed a guiding principle of his creative […]
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• Chicago duo Drazek Fuscaldo continue their enlightening musical journey

  07-12-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek and Brent Fuscaldo have been on an exploratory musical journey since 2008. They conceived the Chicago group as a relatively rock-oriented unit called Mako Sica, but several drummers later, the two core multi-instrumentalists decided to have a go under their surnames. Since last year, they’ve officially operated as a duo with a […]
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• Cass Cwik takes folk tradition to the Calumet River and beyond

  07-12-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cass Cwik and his band the Small Gas Engines specialize in an engaging variety of folk music that recalls Bob Dylan and retro Nashville pop. This is well-trodden territory, but the Chicago singer-songwriter keeps the tradition fresh with a sure hand and strong ear for melody and arrangement. “Under Your Spell,” which opens Cwik’s self-released […]
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