Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Gossip Wolf has been hip to Chicago rapper and singer Angelenah, aka Ashley Hart and Angel Davanport, ever since she released the 2018 EP Sore but Grateful. She’s been sharpening […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:25PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Last October, musician and curator Emily Beisel began booking the monthly Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, which centers femme and nonbinary performers—and they follow their sets with impr…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:18PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
Gossip Wolf has long believed that physical releases from Fire-Toolz, the wonderfully disorienting flagship project of local electronic musician Angel Marcloid, will one day be swapped among…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:27PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
The Reader has praised Maria Jacobson, leader of local indie-rock project Fran, for her “taut, serene singing” and for her well-written songs, which are “sharpened by a pristine elegan…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:14AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
On Friday, September 16, Chicago singer, songwriter, and cartoonist Annie Fish will drop Weird Like Me, an album so steeped in classic alt-rock you’ll half believe Fish recorded it with […
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:44AMTuesday, September 6, 2022
In 2019, Gossip Wolf hailed local death-metal crew Warforged for being “wickedly adept at cross-pollination” and described their debut full-length, I: Voice, as blending “ghostly black…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:18PMTuesday, August 30, 2022
Chicago Latine indie band Los Gold Fires have been quiet the past couple years, but guitarist Siul Reynoso has focused instead on a warmhearted, psych-tinged solo project called Gabacho. Rey…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:02PMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Last month, local darkwave band Kill Scenes dropped “Acid Black Window,” the first single from the upcoming full-length album Masque. The five-piece group, anchored by songwriters Meghan…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:50AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
In March 2021, Gossip Wolf was bowled over by the debut demo from local grindcore crew Organ Failure. The band packed four merciless rippers into three thoroughly unwholesome minutes, whetti…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMTuesday, August 9, 2022
In July 2017, the hosts of WLUW 88.7 FM’s weekly electronic-music program, Abstract Science, celebrated the show’s 20th anniversary with a blockbuster 20-hour broadcast. (Gossip Wolf man…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:26PMTuesday, August 2, 2022
Singer and guitarist Fernando de Buen López moved to Chicago from Mexico City in 2012 with his band El Mañana, who released one more album of jangly, psychedelic indie rock in 2014 before …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:01PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
On Monday, August 1, jazz trombonist Jeb Bishop will move back to Chicago after a ten-year absence. Bishop and his wife headed to North Carolina in spring 2012 (Carrboro and later Durham) an…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:01PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Chicago’s newest record store specializes in all things metal. Meteor Gem occupies a garden-level boutique at 3082 N. Elston, and its stock is so laser-focused on extreme music—including…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:46PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Even in a city full of talented artists with their fingers in a half dozen projects at once, Marvin Tate stands out as a Renaissance man. The west-side native is extraordinarily industrious …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:52AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
Gossip Wolf has been on the record as a fan of Lollygagger since the local glam-punk goofballs dropped their debut EP, Life on Terminus, in 2018. The band followed it in 2020 with the hilari…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:27PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
Legendary artist and writer (and onetime Chicago mayoral candidate) Cynthia Plaster Caster passed away in April after a lengthy illness, but Gossip Wolf isn’t done mourning. Future generat…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:31PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
Chicago postpunks Ne-Hi split in May 2019, and since then guitarist-singer Mikey Wells has expanded his palette of delightful pop hooks in two standout projects: Spun Out, which is indie dan…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:36PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
Gossip Wolf has long admired local country-music craftsman Dan Whitaker, whose considerable discography includes folk-tinged solo work and recordings with his combo the Shinebenders that com…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:14PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Queer garage-pop band Bev Rage & the Drinks have become one of the city’s most entertaining acts since coming together in 2015. Mixing hilariously forthright lyrics, spitfire riffs, a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Guitarist and drummer Weasel Walter, the “brutal prog” purveyor best known as longtime leader of the Flying Luttenbachers, left Chicago in 2003 for San Francisco and later moved to New Y…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:20AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
In October 1982, members of seven LGBTQ+ concert and marching bands from across the U.S. met in Chicago and formed the Lesbian and Gay Band Association. Though the LGBA changed its name to t…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:24PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Gossip Wolf always likes to hear about a new solo album from a member of Ensemble dal Niente—the long-running local contemporary-classical corps has built a spotless reputation for adventu…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:18AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Local four-piece Mystery Actions remind Gossip Wolf of the cool, slightly intimidating kids from the Chicago street-punk scene in the late 80s and early 90s, when it centered on Clark and Be…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 08:09PM 
