Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based rapper Open Mike Eagle is a seemingly inexhaustible font of laugh-out-loud one-liners, and he delivers as always on his latest album, Component System With th…
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 09:15PMThursday, September 8, 2022
When Santigold emerged in the late 2000s, her hip alterna-pop seemed to waltz out of left field, incorporating elements of every genre she could put her hands on: punk, hip-hop, […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 19, 2022
Wanuri Kahiu’s Look Both Ways in other contexts might simply be a fairly inoffensive feel-good romance riff. As it is, though, the film’s lack of courage is painful and unforgivable.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:00PMKehlani’s second album, 2020’s It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (Atlantic), features the brooding, moody, left-of-center R&B that’s become their signature. The singer’s new LP, Blue…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, August 12, 2022
I’m sure Bodies Bodies Bodies will have many enthusiastic fans. I’m just at the stage in life where I don’t take much pleasure in watching the kids hurt themselves.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
“I’m a twentysomething / Don’t you think it’s about time?” Chicago singer-songwriter Claudia Ferme, aka Claude, sighs on “Twenty Something,” which opens her debut full-length, …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, August 1, 2022
It’s unlikely that someone’s going to see The Reef: Stalked and go out and murder a bunch of sharks. But the fact that we tend to see nature as victimizing us rather than the other way a…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:40PMThursday, July 28, 2022
The smaller humans who saw the preview were delighted, and their parents didn’t seem to be suffering.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:00PMThursday, July 21, 2022
If you want to see Crispin Glover’s Olivia Newton-John impersonation, head around the bunny-headed Jesus, past the John Wayne Gacy display, and watch your head down the stairs.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:40PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
California singer-songwriter Cuco (aka Omar Banos) makes distinctively woozy bedroom pop that mixes vocals in Spanish and English with laid-back beats, fuzzy guitar reverb, synth wash, 808s,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, July 11, 2022
It’s impossible to listen to DakhaBrakha right now outside a political context; they’re a Ukrainian folk band based in Kyiv. After Russia launched its full-scale war on their country in …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, July 1, 2022
The effort is appreciated as far as it goes. But it doesn’t matter how enthusiastically you dial if you end up with a bore on the other end of the line.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:13PMThursday, June 16, 2022
Critics sometimes say that films like Running Man and Battle Royale implicate the viewer. When you watch them, you’re supposed to recognize the ickiness of your own enjoyment of uber-viole…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:18AMFriday, May 27, 2022
Nashville rapper, multi-instrumentalist, and part-time extraterrestrial Namir Blade follows in the space wake of his beloved Sun Ra less through style than through vibes. His new self-produc…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, May 26, 2022
Prison is a massive, racist source of violence and harm. A film about incarcerated people, especially one purporting to advocate for them, needs to engage with that fact.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Philip Glass’s soundtrack for piano, pipe organ, and chorus mirrors the repetition in the summoning spell.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:25PM 
