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The <i>Reader’s</i> stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23

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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

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By Andy Kang
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By Rachel Hawley
Music

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The untold story of Joe Mantegna’s teenage garage band

The Apocryphals formed at Morton East High School in Cicero and released five singles before Mantegna left to pursue his burgeoning acting career.

By Steve Krakow

Prolific Chicago rapper Adamn Killa makes his own fun in self-isolation on Hit the Adamn

By Leor Galil | 04.10.20
Wrekmeister Harmonies face the darkness before the dawn on We Love to Look at the Carnage

By Monica Kendrick | 04.10.20
Waxahatchee’s new Saint Cloud explores new beginnings, musically and personally

By Luca Cimarusti | 04.10.20
Charles Rumback’s trio reconciles freedom and lyricism on June Holiday

By Bill Meyer | 04.10.20
Oranssi Pazuzu voyage beyond black metal to a sound all their own on the new Mestarin Kynsi

By Philip Montoro | 04.10.20

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