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- Music, Music Column Jul 24, 2012
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Don't just laugh at Riff Raff
If there's anything to learn from the new Fat Boys reissue, it's that funny rappers aren't necessarily unserious
- Music, Music Column Jun 26, 2012
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Pushing the radio forward
Supreme Cuts create the kind of beats that are making pop music sound like the underground
- Music, Music Column May 15, 2012
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Local release roundup: Chief Keef and Fredo Santana
Plus: Black metal from Surachai, haunting organ ballads from Bone & Bell, and breakout rap from Katie Got Bandz
- Music, Music Column May 9, 2012
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No sale = no defense
From Flosstradamus to Kanye West, artists are learning the hard way that they can catch heat for an uncleared sample even if they give their songs away
- Music, Music Column Apr 11, 2012
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Tumblr: threat or menace?
It's supposedly turning creators into mere regurgitators—but what it's really doing is injecting new blood into an old remix culture
- Music, Music Column Mar 7, 2012
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Local release roundup: cerebral grooves from beat maker Radius
Plus reviews of enlightened bangers from BBU, dirty basement metal from In the Weeds, and more
- Music, Music Column Feb 16, 2012
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The Jeff Mangum Effect
Once an indie-rock messiah makes his second coming, what's left for him to do?
- Music, Music Column Feb 9, 2012
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Q&A with Ninja of Die Antwoord
"We kind of noticed why everyone likes us. It was like, Oh shit, I have a gun and I didn’t know that I had a gun."
- Music, Music Column Feb 2, 2012
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The RIAA's most wanted
Did the feds shut down Megaupload at big content's bidding—to keep the site from launching an iTunes competitor?
- Music, Music Column Jan 12, 2012
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The week seapunk broke
A fast-evolving Internet-born dance-music microscene puts down roots in Chicago
- Music, Music Column Jan 5, 2012
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King Louie: he's arrogant
The southeast-side MC brings a dose of southern swagger to Chicago hip-hop
- Music, Music Column Dec 8, 2011
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Bon Iver, the Grammys, and indie Stockholm syndrome
Justin Vernon may have exactly the right idea when he downplays his four nominations.
- Music, Music Column Nov 23, 2011
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Sampling’s not dead
Legitmix puts legal appropriation back on hip-hop's table
- Music, Music Feature Nov 17, 2011
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Drake charts a course for pop
With the new Take Care, he erases the last lines between hip-hop and the rest of the Top 40
- Music, Music Column Nov 10, 2011
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Local release roundup
Owen drags emo into adulthood, Flosstradamus makes footwork music friendlier, Golden Birthday weirds up bubblegum pop, and more
- Music, Music Column Oct 20, 2011
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Sich Mang psychedelically escalates footwork music
Chicago duo mixes footwork with brain work to form something called “wurkstep”
- Music, Music Column Oct 13, 2011
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What's the newspaper equivalent of crate digging?
Rummaging the archive of Reader music criticism
- Music, Music Column Oct 6, 2011
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Making digital music social
Spotify and Turntable.fm try to turn the cloud into a listening lounge
- Music, Music Column Sep 22, 2011
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MP3 fatigue: there’s an app for that
Groovebug turns the iPad into a next-gen LP cover
- Music, Music Column Sep 8, 2011
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Still alive at five
Permanent Records may not be permanent yet, but Lance Barresi and Liz Tooley are celebrating an anniversary that nobody would’ve guessed they’d see
- Music, Music Column Aug 25, 2011
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Rodeo straddles the fence between reviewed and reviewer
"'Listen to it,' says drummer George Nisbett. "That doesn't take 140 characters."
- Music, Music Column Aug 18, 2011
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Local release roundup
DJ Diamond brings nuance to footwork's frenzy, Tiny Fireflies rough up twee pop, Tony Baines leads a hip-hop Bible Study, and more
- Music, Music Column Aug 11, 2011
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Drawing swastikas on shit: Odd Future, Iceage, and Cult of Youth
Shock art is hardly new, but the engine that drives it keeps changing
- Music, Music Column Jul 7, 2011
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The Cool Kids make a break for it
Can their first album, long delayed by legal wrangling, galvanize hip-hop the way their early releases did three years ago?
- Music, Music Column Jun 30, 2011
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Local release roundup
New stuff from Chicago Stone Lightning Band, Squat the Condos, No I.D.'s Cocaine 80s, and more