- Music, Music Feature, Nov 19, 2009
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Secret History of Chicago Music
Guitar god Harvey "The Snake" Mandel
- Music, Music Review, Apr 6, 1995
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Island Records
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Mar 27, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: A changing of the guard at the Hideout
Plus: A new indie "supergroup" and a solo album from half of String Theory
- Music, Music Feature, Jun 6, 2012
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The Reader's guide to the Chicago Blues Festival
There's more than Mavis: Other must-see acts include Texas Johnny Brown, Floyd Taylor, Joe Louis Walker, and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
- Music, Music Feature, Mar 18, 2010
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The Man Behind the Metal
If it's heavy and it was recorded in Chicago, there's a good chance Sanford Parker was at the mixing board.
- Music, Music Review, Sep 1, 1988
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Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash
- Music, Post No Bills, Apr 25, 2002
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Full Service Band-Aid
- Music, Music Sidebar, Jul 8, 2010
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Chosen Few House Music Reunion Picnic
The house music marathon returns this Saturday with sets by Chosen Few DJs Jesse Saunders, Wayne Williams, and Tony Hatchett, among others.
- Music, In Rotation, Aug 14, 2012
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In Rotation: Commercial music producer Morgan Thoryk on First Nations DJs A Tribe Called Red
Plus: Reader writer Miles Raymer on whosampled.com, and audio engineer Zach Goheen on his late start with Tame Impala
- Music, Music Review, Sep 15, 1994
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Baseball, Motherhood, and Punk
- Music, In Rotation, Jan 11, 2013
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In Rotation: Alma Negra’s Erin Page on Neurosis, King Dude, and Thin Lizzy
Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Egyptian pop singer Abou El Leef, Anatomy of Habit front man Mark Solotroff on Sisters of Mercy bootlegs, and more
- Music, Music Column, Apr 1, 2010
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Music for Feet
The Chicago dance style footwork already has MTV's attention. But footwork music may be too weird for mainstream ears.
- Music, Music Column, May 27, 2010
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Record Shopping in Logan Square?
The long-gentrifying neighborhood gets two new indie stores in one week.
- Music, Post No Bills, Jun 7, 2001
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A Soul Baby Grows Up
- Music, Artist on Artist, Nov 12, 2012
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Artist on Artist: Chris Stamey of the dB's talks to Rick Rizzo of
Eleventh Dream Day"When we think about the dB's, we think of little dancing molecules of rhythm more than lyrics of longing."
- Music, Music Feature, May 8, 2013
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What music's outsiders and oddballs got up to before the Internet
A new coffee-table book and CD set documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.
- Music, Music Review, Dec 23, 1999
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Prince For a Day
- Music, Three Beats, Jul 17, 2012
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The noise scene's lost Enemy, a trumpeter's growth spurt, and one schmaltzy goodbye
Good-bye to Baby Teeth and experimental-music venue Enemy, hello to young trumpeter Marquis Hill
- Music, Music Review, Apr 1, 2013
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Wire's gooey-sweet Change Becomes Us and 15 more record reviews
Eight Reader writers range all over the musical map, from Milk Music's revivalist take on early-90s "alternative" to Jace Clayton's irreverent tribute to minimalist composer Julius Eastman.
- Music, Music Sidebar, Dec 23, 1999
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Waving the Olive Branch
