- Best of Chicago, Goods & Services, Jun 20, 2013
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Best Place Where Music and Clothes Meet
Jugrnaut
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 4, 2013
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French Montana and the case of the missing crossover
Long-awaited debut rap album flops with pop listeners.
- Music, Music Feature, May 30, 2013
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Why mixtapes don't hit the charts
It's not because they aren’t a vital format or the fuel for a parallel music economy—it’s because Billboard and the RIAA ignore them.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Gig poster of the week: Birds dropping bombs on the Wonder Years
This week's gig poster was designed by James Heimer, an artist and designer in South Philadelphia.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2013
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Why you won't see rap mixtapes on the charts
Billboard, the RIAA, and the big mixtape snub
- Music, Music Review, May 14, 2013
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Deerhunter's dreamily scuzzy Monomania and 14 more record reviews
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.
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 23, 2013
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Chance the Rapper drops Acid Rap
The local MC's second mixtape is about to take him to some places he's only imagined.
- Music, In Rotation, Feb 14, 2013
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In Rotation: Audio engineer Tim Iseler on "Darth Vader's Cock and Balls"
Plus: The Reader's Miles Raymer on Townes Van Zandt’s outtakes and audio engineer Jeremy Lemos on the Dirty Projectors at the Sydney Opera House
- Music, Music Feature, Dec 31, 2012
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Snacking on J Dilla’s Donuts
Four Chicago producers talk about Dilla’s influence as Stones Throw releases a seven-inch box set reissue of the Detroit producer’s 2006 masterpiece
- Music, Music Feature, Dec 26, 2012
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The Year in Review: Music
Reader writers tackle the past 12 months from six different directions
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2012
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Munchi gives the trap-EDM trend a banging send-off
Maybe the last trap-dance mixtape you need to download
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 10, 2012
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"Mix tape" no more
An update to the Reader style guide
- Music, Music Review, Nov 5, 2009
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The Quantity Is the Quality
He’s not the best MC and he’s not the worst, but Gucci Mane is crazy enough to put out four albums’ worth of free material in seven days and that’s good enough for me.
