- Music, Music Review, Jul 17, 2012
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Short takes on recent releases from Don Cherry, the Sham Palace label, and Anna Ternheim
Proto-world music from trumpeter Don Cherry, relentless dance tracks from Syria, and a welcome rustic turn from Swedish singer Anna Ternheim
- Music, Music Review, Dec 1, 2011
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Filling out the fringes of African music and black gospel
Multidisc sets Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing
- Music, Music Review, Oct 20, 2011
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Roctober’s stubborn eccentricity
The new book Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll anthologizes the under-the-radar zine and its underappreciated subjects
- Music, Music Review, Jul 28, 2011
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DJ Khaled and the hip-hop illuminati vs. Danny Brown
The Miami-based producer has a team of crazy millionaires, but the Detroit MC only needs himself
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jul 21, 2011
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Chicago Folks Operetta cultivates The Rose of Stambul
With a new translation and a run at Chopin Theatre, Chicago Folks Operetta cultivates Leo Fall's 1916 blossom, The Rose of Stambul
- Music, Music Review, Mar 17, 2011
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A Homemade Canon
Loud Family front man Scott Miller picks his favorites from a half century of pop, and his choices are fun to read about even when the're hard to agree with.
- Music, Music Review, Mar 9, 2011
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Short Takes on Recent Releases
A Hawk and a Hacksaw’s lessons from Budapest, 3/4HadBeenEliminated's mysterious Italian unrock, and improvised German postdub from the Moritz von Oswald Trio
- Music, Music Review, Dec 9, 2010
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A Half Century, a Whole Continent
Africa: 50 Years of Music: Eighteen CDs full of reasons to stop comparing everything that sounds African to Graceland.
- Music, Music Review, Dec 2, 2010
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Meow
Can Nicki Minaj break the bitch-ho barrier? On her debut LP, Pink Friday, not quite.
- Music, Music Review, Oct 28, 2010
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Short Takes on Recent Releases
Vintage folk in a new package, plus a grab bag of great music you probably missed this summer
- Music, Music Review, Jul 22, 2010
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What the Phuck?
Liz Phair's last defenders confront the indefensible.
- Music, Music Review, Jul 1, 2010
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Making Pop for Capitalist Pigs
M.I.A.'s tangled relationship with the consumer culture
- Music, Music Review, Jun 10, 2010
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The 27th Annual Chicago Blues Festival
Our guide to notable acts
- Music, Music Review, May 27, 2010
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A Violent Happiness
Ben Chasny, best known for the psych-folk of Six Organs of Admittance, cuts loose with Chris Corsano and Sir Richard Bishop.
- Music, Music Review, May 20, 2010
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Colorblind Soul
Does Sharon Jones need to care that her audience is full of white hipsters?
- Music, Music Review, Apr 29, 2010
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Waiting for the Cut
In Cleric's long-form metal, the tension just keeps building.
- Music, Music Review, Apr 22, 2010
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A Cult Artist’s Cult Artist
Who’s Jackie Leven? Ask Johnny Dowd, or Ron Sexsmith, or Pere Ubu's David Thomas.
- Music, Music Review, Apr 8, 2010
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Erykah's Abyss
Erykah Badu looks inward, loses her spark
- Music, Music Review, Apr 8, 2010
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Anger Is an Energy
Kaki King's breakup album
- Music, Music Review, Apr 8, 2010
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The List: April 8-14, 2010
Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Baaba Maal, the Tomasz Stanko Quintet, Major Lazer, Mission of Burma, Florence & the Machine, Pissed Jeans, and more
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