- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 14, 2013
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Your #bestofchi on Instagram
Show us Best of Chicago through your eyes, maybe win three-day passes to Pitchfork
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Jun 5, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: The Owl makes silver apples for its Silver Apples show
Plus: The CFA's second annual media mixer and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya's schizo new pop album
- 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, Gossip Wolf, May 8, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: The end times come for Heavy Times
Plus: Oyarsa goes transcontinental, Reds and Blue's drummer hits the road with Daughn Gibson, and more
- 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, Gossip Wolf, Apr 3, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Who’s playing Riot Fest?
Plus: Busy seasons for trash-pop duo the Funs and stacks-of-amps doom band Bongripper
- 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, Gossip Wolf, Feb 26, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Sniffing out the Lollapalooza lineup
Plus: The Owl launches a cassette label, and Saki hosts Low and Jeff Tweedy
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 8, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 2/8: Angel Olsen, Love in the Time of Online Dating, and Community's Danny Pudi
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, February 8, 2013.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 17, 2013
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Chief Keef's sentencing: The view from the courtroom
Earlier Thursday Chief Keef was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating his probation; here's what it was like in the courtroom.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
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Chief Keef's Finally Rich has a home at Northbrook Public Library
Chief Keef may not have moved to Northbrook but his major label debut, Finally Rich will soon be in circulation at the north suburb's public library
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 29, 2012
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Frank Ocean and pop music's online identity in 2012
Frank Ocean leads the charge in making the Internet and pop music safer for sincerity
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 17, 2012
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Movies for your ears, 2012 edition
Why so much movie music disappoints when compared to Scott Walker's cinematic new album Bish Bosch
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2012
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Chief Keef's probation, the Ultra Lounge shooting, and more music news
Chief Keef's probation hearings, the Wednesday-morning shooting at Logan Square's Ultra Lounge, and White/Light's upcoming performance with Kim Gordon
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 25, 2012
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Why we won't post the alleged Lil Reese assault video
The music media is buzzing about a video in which Lil Reese allegedly assaults an unnamed woman—but the Reader prefers to join the conversation without reposting the clip
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 23, 2012
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The Reader's Agenda: Sun 9/23
What's on the Agenda for Sunday, September 23, 2012
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 20, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Buke and Gase, "Misshaping Introduction"
Buke & Gase's "Misshaping Introduction," from the upcoming EP Function Falls
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2012
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Gig poster of the week
Johnny Sampson did a quasi-naturalist poster for the Pitchfork Music Festival (which you may have heard us talking about)
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Jul 24, 2012
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Gossip Wolf: What, Lady Gaga again?
This time she dropped in at the Chicago Diner. Plus: New releases from Mayor Daley, the Odd Couple, and Airiel
- Music, In Rotation, Jul 23, 2012
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In Rotation: DJ All the Way Kay on Frank Ocean's superhot new LP
Plus: WCRX FM music director Nicki Butler on Wild Flag at Pitchfork, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on huffing the Psychic Paramount's fog, and more
