- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 20, 2013
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Breaking up the band: When to call it quits
Is it time to quit your band, or do you just need to take a really long nap?
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 14, 2013
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Why play South by Southwest? Especially if your band's from Taiwan?
What's different for indie rockers in the ROC, and how a festival in Austin might help a band from Taipei
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 13, 2013
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The ongoing relationship between psychiatry and American movies
How Side Effects and See You Next Tuesday reflect new trends in the movies' depiction of mental illness.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2013
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Why didn't these artists know Amoeba's Vinyl Vaults digital store was selling their music?
Amoeba's Vinyl Vaults store says it tries to reach every rights holder whose music it sells, but the Reader reached nine artists in its catalog, none of whom had been contacted.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 21, 2013
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Another reason to see Meshuggah on Friday: Intronaut's heavy space prog
Intronaut will ease you into the Meshuggah show on Friday with their kaleidoscopically heavy space prog.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2013
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On West Town's Shaman, small plates, and first dates
With restaurants as with dates, it's hard to fall in love.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 1, 2013
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The sci-fi Japanese pop star scandal
Minami Minegishi's futuristic ordeal
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 30, 2013
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"Cathy Don't Go": A religious cult's lost new-wave gem
Perhaps some jangly power pop will convince you that bar codes are evil.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Johnnie To's Life Without Principle: a comic thriller on the investment banking industry
The thriller we live in: notes on the Hong Kong master's latest film
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 1, 2012
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Halo 4 rolls out zero-tolerance policy for offensive speech
The biggest video-game property going says good-bye to hate speech
- 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, Oct 6, 2012
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Band vs. girl band: what’s the difference, anyway?
Being a girl in a band is just like being a dude in a band except it's harder to pee into a plastic Coke bottle on the road
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
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Pathos in a shit storm
The most moving post from Moving Week, NSFW unless you can cry there
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2012
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Spare an apostrophe for the Chicago Teachers Union
Looking for a 16 percent increase in punctuation
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 15, 2012
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André Téchiné's Unforgivable: every person is a tracking shot
In praise of the latest feature by one of France's greatest directors
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 6, 2012
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We made it through Lollapalooza
Not even a storm evacuation, an amazingly terrible smell, and even worse sound could keep some of Lollapalooza's music from shining
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 3, 2012
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The most dramatic movement I've ever witnessed
Remembering an unlucky friend
