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Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
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The best live metal of 2016

Metal shows remain a great way to drive hostile occupiers out of your head—whether you prefer the bitter catharsis of False or the galloping rush of Tengger Cavalry.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Music Feature, Ghost, Inquisition, Rotting Christ, Vektor, Obituary, Tribulation, Melvins, Behemoth, Babymetal, Grave Miasma, Pallbearer, Cloud Rat, Gorguts, Tengger Cavalry, Subterranean, Yellow Eyes, False, Scorched Tundra, Empty Bottle, Meshuggah, House of Blues, Dragged Into Sunlight, Reggie’s Rock Club, Sick With Bloom, Saturnalia, The Violent Sleep of Reason, Mongolian, folk metal, live metal, black metal, Tomas Haake, Oozing Wound, Casey Marnocha, Video

Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2015
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The year in music: 2015

Seven Reader writers drill down into rap, jazz, punk, metal, and more—instead of just rearranging the same records on everyone else’s best-of list.
- Tags: Music Feature, Year in review, Makaya McCraven, Chicago Reed Quartet, Michael Zerang & the Blue Lights, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Josh Berman Trio, year in review, Vic Spencer, Lil B, Chance the Rapper, Zro Fox, Sasha Go Hard, Ty Money, Rich Jones, Montana Macks, Jordan Looney, metal, Electric Wizard, Ufomammut, Babymetal, False, Mgla, Ian's Party, punk, Speed Babes, Meat Wave, Salvation, Royal Fucks, Absolutely Not, Rat Hammer, Sweet Cobra, Chi-Raq, Sam Trump, The Kinsmen, Phenom, Shawnee Deznae, Malcolm London, slow albums, Ennui, Falsvs Anno Domini, Chrch, Unanswered Hymns, Un, The Tomb of All Things, Sunn O))), Kannon, Bell Witch, Four Phantoms, Jes Skolnik, Britt Julious, Sasha Geffen, Josh Terry, Jessica Hopper, Video

Music, In Rotation Jun 2, 2015
Guitarist Julia Miller on the first synth-guitar hybrid

Plus: Sound designer Ed Herrmann on one of the 20th century's great orchestral works, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on what's funny about Babymetal, and more
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: In Rotation, Babymetal, House of Blues, Tristan Honsinger, ICP Orchestra, Dave Hunt, Anaal Nathrakh, Ed Herrmann, The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Mathias Spahlinger, There Is No Repetition: Mathias Spahlinger at 70, TurangalÎla, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Olivier Messiaen, Osvaldo Budón, Tablaturas Espaciales

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