Wednesday, October 12, 2022
The pop-culture industry loves to resurface detritus from my youth, add a little polish, and launch it on whatever streaming service I’m most likely to drop due to rising subscription [……
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, 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, October 4, 2022
Over the past two and a half years, I’ve assembled a lot of lists for Bandcamp Friday. I like sharing music that’s unfamiliar to people, and the occasion of a […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:46PMMonday, October 3, 2022
I’ve heard plenty of great songs that capture the dissociative lonesomeness and strange thrills of navigating interpersonal relationships now that so much human communication is sucked up …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Dread can be suffocating, but Ganser make it work like a spark. On their new EP, Nothing You Do Matters (Felte), the Chicago postpunk four-piece take cues from dance punk […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
The term “world music” has never been adequate to the task we’ve set it—even in its most benign reading, it implies a division between the listener and the rest of […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:15PMGossip 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 12:27PMChicago posthardcore four-piece Tar broke up in 1995, and the number of times they’ve reunited for a show since then you can count on one hand—this gig will be the […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, 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 10:14AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Singer, rapper, and songwriter Tink broke out of Chicago’s hip-hop scene about a decade ago, becoming one of the constellation of new stars lighting up the city. Like many local […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, September 19, 2022
Chicago rappers Tony Santana and Aubry know that all the talent in the world can’t make a hip-hop duo work if the MCs don’t click. As Stranded Civilians, Aubry and […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, September 15, 2022
Chicagoans don’t need an excuse to talk about house music, but when the biggest pop star in the world drops a record indebted to house, you can expect more than […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:34PMWednesday, 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 13, 2022
Ten City’s fifth album, 2021’s Judgement (Ultra), was a long time in the making—and not just because the crucial Chicago house group’s previous album, That Was Then, This Is Now, […
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos moved to Chicago last year to begin an MFA in sound at the School of the Art Institute, but she’s got a foot planted […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, 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 01:18PMFriday, September 2, 2022
Brett Ray had proved his commitment to extreme music long before he launched the extreme-music blowout Dreary North Fest last year. He’s been booking shows for more than two decades, […]…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, August 31, 2022
It’s been four months since we’ve had a Bandcamp Friday. In case you’ve somehow forgotten, Bandcamp introduced them shortly after COVID-19 eliminated stateside touring in March 2020, a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 08:28PMIf you’ve ever been to a show at Thalia Hall, you’ve walked right past Anna-Michal Paul’s work. She creates the hand-drawn chalk art that greets concertgoers as they ascend the […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:40PMA teenage Jamie Hodge enchanted the international underground-dance community in 1993 with his debut 12-inch as Born Under a Rhyming Planet, Analog: Heaven. Techno figurehead Richie Hawtin r…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, 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 02:02PMFriday, August 26, 2022
I’ve long admired Chicago indie label Star Creature Universal Vibrations for its efforts to push the synth-heavy sounds of boogie and modern funk and bolster the international underground …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMTuesday, 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 10:50AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Last year Chicagoland multi-instrumentalist Eric Reyes broke out in emo and pop-punk circles with his debut as Snow Ellet, the EP Suburban Indie Rock Star. It injects the sugar rush […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, 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 12:45PMMonday, August 15, 2022
Addy Harris sings with a dewy softness in her group Rat Tally, but you can hear and feel the iron will behind her performances even over a roaring rock band. On Rat Tally’s debut album, th…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:31PMTuesday, 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 01:26PMFriday, August 5, 2022
In March 2020, when I wrote about underground industrial label Chicago Research and the tight-knit community that surrounded it, I heard that local duo Conjunto Primitivo planned to release …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, August 4, 2022
Most rappers can only dream of making a song as powerful as PGF Nuk’s breakout single, “Waddup.” Superficially it sounds like a pretty standard drill track—terse verses in a wrought-…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
On the evening of Thursday, June 30, dozens of young Black dancers gathered on the Chicago Riverwalk across from the Merchandise Mart. At 9 PM that night, Art on the Mart, which bills itself…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:32PM 
