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Music
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Music Column
Jul 24, 2012
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
By Miles Raymer
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hip-hop comedy
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Fat Boys
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Swatch
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Darren Robinson
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Kurtis Blow
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Riff Raff
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Jodi Highroller
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Harmony Korine
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Andy Milonakis
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Simon Rex
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Cuz My Gear
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Chief Keef
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Kitty Pryde
,
Mad Decent
Music
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Music Column
Jun 26, 2012
Audio
Pushing the radio forward
Supreme Cuts create the kind of beats that are making pop music sound like the underground
By Miles Raymer
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Mike Perry
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Austin Keultjes
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experimental electronic music
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Oxyconteen
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Haleek Maul
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Mishka
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Main Attrakionz
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Das Racist
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ShowYouSuck
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Holy Other
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Wise Blood
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pop music
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Maroon 5
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Audio
Music
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Music Column
May 15, 2012
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
By Miles Raymer
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Chief Keef
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Kanye West
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Pusha T
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King Louie
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L.E.P. Bogus Boys
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Bone & Bell
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Fredo Santana
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Lil Reese
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Chicago rap
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Katie Got Bandz
Music
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Music Column
May 9, 2012
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
By Miles Raymer
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Tumblr
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Dutch Master
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file lockers
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Soundcloud
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Kanye West
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Robert Poindexter
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the Persuaders
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Young Chop
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Chief Keef
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Legitmix
Music
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Music Column
Apr 11, 2012
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
By Miles Raymer
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Alaskan Eyes
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Molly Soda
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Clairey Pear
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found sound
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witch house
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Salem
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seapunk
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Ester Dean
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Stargate
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Zeus
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Jason Collett
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Party Supplies
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Action Bronson
Music
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Music Column
Mar 7, 2012
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
By Miles Raymer
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bell hooks
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In The Weeds
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10ille
Music
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Music Column
Feb 16, 2012
The Jeff Mangum Effect
Once an indie-rock messiah makes his second coming, what's left for him to do?
By Miles Raymer
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Jeff Mangum
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Neutral Milk Hotel
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Elephant 6
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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hermit
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Athenaeum Theatre
Music
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Music Column
Feb 9, 2012
Video
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."
By Miles Raymer
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South Africa
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zef
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Ninja
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Yolanda Vi$$er
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DJ Hi-Tek
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Coachella
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Ten$ion
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$O$
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Harmony Korine
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Interscope
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Video
Music
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Music Column
Feb 2, 2012
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?
By Miles Raymer
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downloading music
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Kim Dotcom
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MPAA
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Ted Brinkofski
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Hulkshare
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Swizz Beats
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Universal Music Group
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iTunes
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Megabox
,
Black Eyed Peas
Music
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Music Column
Jan 12, 2012
The week seapunk broke
A fast-evolving Internet-born dance-music microscene puts down roots in Chicago
By Miles Raymer
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turquoise
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peace, love, unity, and respect
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PLUR
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Albert Redwine
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Shan Beaste
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Zombelle
,
Tumblr
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Internet meme
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Odd Future
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Molly Soda
,
Lady Gaga
,
Soulja Boy
Music
,
Music Column
Jan 5, 2012
King Louie: he's arrogant
The southeast-side MC brings a dose of southern swagger to Chicago hip-hop
By Miles Raymer
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King Louie
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Chicago rapper
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hip-hop
,
southern rap
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David Drake
,
So Many Shrimp
Music
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Music Column
Dec 8, 2011
Bon Iver, the Grammys, and indie Stockholm syndrome
Justin Vernon may have exactly the right idea when he downplays his four nominations.
By Miles Raymer
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Bon Iver
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Holocene
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Justin Vernon
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Grammys
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Kanye West
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Skrillex
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National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Music
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Music Column
Nov 23, 2011
Sampling’s not dead
Legitmix puts legal appropriation back on hip-hop's table
By Miles Raymer
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M3U files
,
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Omid McDonald
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Legitmix
Music
,
Music Feature
Nov 17, 2011
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
By Miles Raymer
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Drake
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rap
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Lil Wayne
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pop music
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Rick Ross
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SBTRKT
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DJ Khaled
Music
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Music Column
Nov 10, 2011
Local release roundup
Owen drags emo into adulthood, Flosstradamus makes footwork music friendlier, Golden Birthday weirds up bubblegum pop, and more
By Miles Raymer
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Owen
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Ghost Town
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Flosstradamus
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Kid Sister
,
Luuk Out Gurl
,
Golden Birthday
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Illusions
,
Fotosputnik
,
Idiolects
,
MC Zulu
,
Electro Track Therapy
Music
,
Music Column
Oct 20, 2011
Sich Mang psychedelically escalates footwork music
Chicago duo mixes footwork with brain work to form something called “wurkstep”
By Miles Raymer
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Music
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Music Column
Oct 13, 2011
What's the newspaper equivalent of crate digging?
Rummaging the archive of
Reader
music criticism
By Miles Raymer
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Chicago Reader at 40
,
Reader at Forty Issue
Music
,
Music Column
Oct 6, 2011
Making digital music social
Spotify and Turntable.fm try to turn the cloud into a listening lounge
By Miles Raymer
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iTunes
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digital music
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iPod
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listening habits
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social networks
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SoundCloud
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Last.fm
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Rdio
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scrobbing
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SoundTracking
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Instagram
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Shazam
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SoundHound
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Turntable.fm
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Rhapsody
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MOG
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Sportify
,
privacy
Music
,
Music Column
Sep 22, 2011
MP3 fatigue: there’s an app for that
Groovebug turns the iPad into a next-gen LP cover
By Miles Raymer
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Groovebug
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album art
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Jeremiah Seraphine
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Lake Street Project
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music aggregator
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Echonest
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Neil Ehardt
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startups
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MP3
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LP
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app for that
Music
,
Music Column
Sep 8, 2011
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
By Miles Raymer
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record stores
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Permanent Records
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Tower records
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vinyl
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music industry
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Ukrainian Village
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Lance Barresi
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Liz Tooley
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in-stores
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Vivan Girls
,
Joyride Records
Music
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Music Column
Aug 25, 2011
Rodeo straddles the fence between reviewed and reviewer
"'Listen to it,' says drummer George Nisbett. "That doesn't take 140 characters."
By Miles Raymer
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Rodeo
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Loud Loup Press
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Groupon
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Richard Giraldi
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Sarcastic Summer
,
Nirvana
,
Les Savy Favy
,
Queens of the Stone Age
,
Jesus Lizard
,
Pixies
Music
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Music Column
Aug 18, 2011
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
By Miles Raymer
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DJ Diamond
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Psalm One
,
Tiny Fireflies
,
Darling
,
Tony Baines
,
Planet Mu
,
Little Treasure
,
Cardboard Sangria
,
Kanye West
,
BainesGod
Music
,
Music Column
Aug 11, 2011
Drawing swastikas on shit: Odd Future, Iceage, and Cult of Youth
Shock art is hardly new, but the engine that drives it keeps changing
By Miles Raymer
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Sharp Darts
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Odd Future
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Iceage
,
Cult of Youth
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Eminem
,
Black Flag
,
Siouxsie Sioux
,
Sex Pistols
,
Skrewdriver
,
Throbbing Gristle
,
swastikas
,
freedom of expression
,
indoctrination
Music
,
Music Column
Jul 7, 2011
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?
By Miles Raymer
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Cool Kids
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Mikey Rocks
,
Antoine Reed
,
Chuck Inglish
,
Evan Ingresoll
,
When Fish Ride Bicycles
,
Green Label Sound
,
Chocolate Industries
,
Seven Bedard
,
hipster rap
,
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
,
Travis Barker
,
Mountain Dew
Music
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Music Column
Jun 30, 2011
Local release roundup
New stuff from Chicago Stone Lightning Band, Squat the Condos, No I.D.'s Cocaine 80s, and more
By Miles Raymer
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The Laureates
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Quadratic
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Squat the Condos
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Chicago Stone Lightning Band
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Cocaine 80s
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