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Music, Music Feature, May 23, 2013
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The return of Dance Mania Records

Twelve years after it folded, the Chicago label that helped birth ghetto house, juke, and footwork music makes a play for the new EDM crowd.
- by Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, EDM, Gant-Man, Spin, David Quam, dance music, DJ Funk, DJ Slugo, electronic dance music, ghetto house, house music, juke, Duane Buford, Trax Records, Larry Sherman, Vince Lawrence, disco, Bright Star, footwork music, record labels, Dance Mania Records, Ray Barney, Victor Parris Mitchell, Paul Johnson, Traxman, Cornelius Ferguson, DJ Funk, Charles Chambers, Robert Armani, Michaelangelo Matos, Chicago Reader, books, history, raves, rave history, Midwest Raves, Daft Punk, Wax Master, Steve Mizek, Argot, Tasteful Nudes, Little White Earbuds, Barney's Records, Willie Barney, Barney's Swing Shop, record distribution, record stores, Jesse Saunders, Bradley University, Video

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Music, Music Sidebar, May 23, 2013
HoZac digs deep for the 2013 Blackout

This year's lovingly curated lineup features power-pop progenitor Dwight Twilley, weirdo sci-fi postpunks Chrome, and lots more.
- by Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, HoZac, Blackout, Empty Bottle, Goons, Greg Shirilla, Nick Ryle, Mike Rep, Tommy Jay, Negative Scanner, the Sleaze, Boston, Unnatural Axe, Tyvek, Detroit, Portland, Eat Skull, South Africa, Make-Overs, Chrome, Wizzard Sleeve, Mr. Quintron, FNU Ronnies, Dwight Twilley, Pezband, Sueves

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Music, Summer Guide, May 16, 2013
Summer Guide: Music festivals

Two dozen (mostly) sun-drenched fests
- Tags: Summer Guide, festivals, music festivals

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Music, Music Review, Apr 18, 2013
Record Store Day special releases that are extra special

Charlie Poole's pre-Depression banjo, the GZA's chess set, "Gay Fish," and more
- by Kevin Warwick, Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Leor Galil, and Luca Cimarusti

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Music, Music Feature, Apr 18, 2013
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Our guide to Record Store Day

The annual celebration of vinyl and the shops that sell it has been getting more hectic and harder to enjoy, but the Reader is here to help.
- by Reader staff
- Tags: Music Feature

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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Apr 18, 2013
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: The Sundowners

These beloved country workhorses never toured or scored a hit, but their repertoire of 25,000 songs made them hugely influential on the alt-country scene.
- by Plastic Crimewave
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, The Sundowners, Bob Boyd, Don Walls, Circle C Boys, Curt Delaney, country music, alt-country, Bloodshot, National Barn Dance, WGN, radio, Double-R Ranch, Fats Domino, Robert Duvall, Robbie Fulks, Jon Langford, The Mekons, Gene Autry, Mickey Mantle, American Swingaround, TV, television, Joel Daly

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Music, Music Feature, Apr 17, 2013
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Of Paramount's importance

Record Store Day is a good day to remember that a subsidiary of a Wisconsin furniture company released some of the most significant blues records of the 1920s.
- by James Hughes
- Tags: Music Feature, The Flaming Lips, Record Store Day, history, 1920s, Stephen Calt, 78 Quarterly, Paramount, Grafton, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Chair Company, Port Washington, Wisconsin, furniture, phonograph cabinets, Chicago Defender, Black Swan Records, race records, J. Mayo Williams, Overton Bank Building, Overton Hygienic Building, South Side, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Charley Patton, Brunswick-Balke-Collender, bowling, Gennett, Starr, Richmond, Indiana, mail order, Robert Dixon, John Godrich, Herwin, Saint Louis, Jazzology

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Music, Music Feature, Apr 17, 2013
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Record Store Day 411

The stores, in-stores, discounts, and goodies
- Tags: Music Feature, Beverly Records, Cafe Mustache, Dave's Records, Dusty Groove, Gramaphone Records, Hyde Park Records, Jazz Record Mart, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Logan Hardware, Old School Records, Comfort Station, Permanent Records, Reckless Records, Reckless Records, Reckless Records, Forest Park, Record Breakers, Saki, 2nd Hand Tunes, Val's Halla Records, Village Records, Vintage Vinyl

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Music, Gossip Wolf, Apr 17, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Hollywood Holt joins Beyonce and Andre 3000 on the Great American Soundtrack

Plus: A sophomore effort from synth-popper Fielded and toil and trouble from dirt-rock trio Lil Tits
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, Amy Winehouse, Andre 3000, Beyonce, Treated Crew, Hollywood Holt, Alfonso Mayen, Le Fonz, Fielded, Lindsay Powell, South by Southwest, Ninety Thirty Thirty, Genesis, Gel Set, Macbeth, Lil Tits, Rat Mansion//Do It Til You Puke, Electrical Audio, Frightwig, Flipper, Record Breakers, Reggie's Rock Club

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Twelve years after it folded, the Chicago label that helped birth ghetto house, juke, and footwork music makes a play for the new EDM crowd.

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This year's lovingly curated lineup features power-pop progenitor Dwight Twilley, weirdo sci-fi postpunks Chrome, and lots more.

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Two dozen (mostly) sun-drenched fests

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Plus: Parlour Tapes throws a murder-mystery fund-raiser, and Templehead gallery unveils its rock opera

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Nine Reader writers fan out across the world of music, with stops at RP Boo's spastic but accessible footwork tracks, Altar of Plagues' dead-planet black metal, and points beyond.

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A new coffee-table book and CD set documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.

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Plus: Oyarsa goes transcontinental, Reds and Blue's drummer hits the road with Daughn Gibson, and more

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Plus: Julie Shapiro of Third Coast on the Austin Music Map, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on the CHIRP Record Fair, and more

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This masterful jazz saxophonist isn't exactly obscure, but he's been unjustly overshadowed since his heyday in the 50s and 60s.

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Plus: A photo op for Cherries Records and a lineup change for Terminate

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"I like to listen to stuff and then go play. I'll watch the latest Rihanna video and then go play drums."

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Plus: A new juke collection from DJ Earl and a benefit show against handgun violence

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The local MC's second mixtape is about to take him to some places he's only imagined.

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Plus: Reader digital content editor Tal Rosenberg on the new Kurt Vile, Searchl1te on the swaggering debut album from composer Anna Clyne, and more

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Charlie Poole's pre-Depression banjo, the GZA's chess set, "Gay Fish," and more

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The annual celebration of vinyl and the shops that sell it has been getting more hectic and harder to enjoy, but the Reader is here to help.

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These beloved country workhorses never toured or scored a hit, but their repertoire of 25,000 songs made them hugely influential on the alt-country scene.

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Record Store Day is a good day to remember that a subsidiary of a Wisconsin furniture company released some of the most significant blues records of the 1920s.

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The stores, in-stores, discounts, and goodies

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Plus: A sophomore effort from synth-popper Fielded and toil and trouble from dirt-rock trio Lil Tits