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Music, Music Feature Dec 21, 2020
Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020

With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.
- By Jack Riedy
- Tags: Music Feature, Year in Review 2020, mutual aid, activism, fundraising, COVID-19, pandemic, Black Lives Matter, Matt Muse, People’s Grab-N-Go, Femdot, Delacreme Scholars, Femi Adigun, the Scholars Slide By, Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive, Feed the West Side, John Walt Foundation, Nachelle Pugh, Pivot Gang, Frsh Waters, Qurissy Lopez, Bandcamp Friday, Nnamdï Ogbonnaya, Nnamdï, Brat, Krazy Karl, Black Plight, Assata’s Daughters, EAT Chicago, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Illinois Prison Project, Brave Space Alliance, Macie Stewart, Sima Cunningham, Ohmme, KC Tenants, Chicago Community Jail Support, Montessori School of Englewood, Kooyrigs, Warm Violet, Avery Springer, Art Is Love Vol. 1, Why? Records, Ruby Watson, Sen Morimoto, Tasha, Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project, CIVLization, CIVL SAVE Emergency Relief Fund, Situationchicago, Experimental Sound Studio, Quarantine Concerts

Music, Music Feature Dec 2, 2020
Bandcamp Friday > Black Friday

How often can you be sure that so much of your money will reach the people who made what you’re buying?
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Blk Mgc, ShowYouSuck, Scissor Girls, 79rs Gang, Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pugs Atomz, Avenue Zero, William Basinski, Beabadoobee, Bless the Mad, Cabaret Voltaire, Shannon Candy, Cell Phones, Cleared, Chris Crack, Cursetheknife, Dark Buddha Rising, Daoui, Dos Santos, ESSO, G.I. Bill, A Grape Dope, Half Gringa, Hieroglyphic Being, Ìfé, Ilsa, Ian Iversen, Yves Jarvis, Jesu, Jucifer, Judson Claiborne, Shira Legmann, James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Macabre, Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Makaya McCraven, Merzbow, Molchat Doma, Nothing, Oui Ennui, Ovens, Jeff Parker, Jordan Reyes, Rhybadi, Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou, Season of Life, Si Dios Quiere, Luke Titus, Joyous Sounds!, Preliminaries of Silence, Vetus Supulcrum, Wrong War, Izzy Yellen, Your Arms Are My Cocoon, Bandcamp, Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp day

Music, Music Feature Nov 4, 2020
Bandcamp Friday soldiers on

The nation may be diseased and broken, but you can still use your music dollars to do a small kindness for artists and labels.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Angry Blackmen, Jim Baker, Keefe Jackson, and Julian Kirshner, Nate Barksdale, BBsitters Club, Bless the Mad, Brandy, Chris Connelly and Jessica Gallo, Contorno, Cordoba, Crippled Black Phoenix, Food House, Fraxiom, Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Zachary Good and Lia Kohl, Laura Jane Grace, Growing Concerns Poetry Collective, Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Judith Hamann, Loraine James, Mohawk Johnson, Rich Jones & Montana Macks, Adrianne Lenker, Lifeguard, Molasses, Mooner, Sen Morimoto, Mr. Bungle, Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes, Tawny Newsome & Bethany Thomas, No Slogan, Nonlocal Forecast, Optic Sink, Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker, Pallbearer, Pool Holograph, Frankie “Hollywood” Rodriguez, Secret Drum Band, Shamir, Sheet Ghosts, Matthew Shipp Trio, Spirit Adrift, Star, Dayna Stephens Quartet, Sumac, Sun Ra Arkestra, Tricky, Jeff Tweedy, The Twilite Tone, Quattracenta, Distort Midwest 2020, Mini MIDI Mixtape, New Neighborhoods, Verbal Kent & the Other Guys

Music, Music Feature Sep 30, 2020
Time to jump on the Bandcamp stuff you’ve been waiting to buy

Once again, it’s the one day of the month when almost all your money goes to the artists and labels you want to support.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Annihilus, Attack of the Chicago Boogie, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Ben Goldberg, Bethany Thomas, Big Branch, Bill Callahan, Black A.G., Community Garden, Corolla, COVID-19, Dallas Thomas, Dana Hall Trio, Deafkids & Petbrick, Eartheater, Ester, Exhalants, Femdot, Frank Leone, Fraxiom, General Semantics, Geof Bradfield, Gold Standard Collective, Jay Wood, Judy, JuJu Exchange, Kelly Lee Owens, Le Couleur, Li Jianhong, Matt Christensen, Necrot, Neph, Ossemaan, pandemic, Phew, revenue sharing, Rezn, Semiratruth & Tre Johnson, Serengeti, Shut It Down: Benefit for the Movement for Black Lives, Sidi Touré, Sirr TMo Sama, Slow Pulp, Spektral Quartet, Staring Problem, Steve Summers, Straitjacket Fits, Thank You, I'm Sorry, Throwing Muses, Ulver, Uniform, Vic Spencer, Vuelveteloca, Zora Jones

Music, Music Feature Sep 2, 2020
The pandemic is still with us, so Bandcamp day is too

And the Reader recommends 34 recent releases available through the online music retailer.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Alan Braufman, Angel Olsen, Aweful, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Bixiga 70, cut, Davis, Eiko Ishibashi, Eli Winter, End Result, Exotic Sin, Fantastic Negrito, Frank Okay, Ganser, Good Fuck, Greenmachine, Gulch, Half Gringa, Heavee, Hieroglyphic Being, High Spirits, J. Zunz, L.A. Witch, Matmos, Phony, Pig Destroyer, Primitive Man, revenue, sales, share, Spun Out, Steve Von Till, the Knees, Thumbscrew, Traxman, Ulcerate, waive, Wye Oak, Zeena Parkins and Jeff Kolar

Music, Music Feature Aug 5, 2020
The Reader has 56 places to start your shopping this Bandcamp day

Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, #SaveOurStages, Another Sunny Day, Attack of the Chicago Boogie, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Black Plight, Bloodmist Boris, Bob Nanna, Bruges, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Chris Crack, Cinder Well, Cold Beaches, COVID-19, Cutta, Daniel Ek, Dehd, Evicshen, Fat Night, Ghetto Kumbé, Gosh Diggity, He Who Walks Three Ways, HHY & the Macumbas, James Swanberg, Jovan Landry, Julianna Barwick, Lawrence Arms, Le Tour, Lillerne #122, Margo Price, Mexican Werewolf, Myquale, Nest Egg, Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris, Nnamdï, Ocean Cult, Old Man Gloom, Oscillator Bug, Paisley Fields, pandemic, Park Hye Jin, Park National, Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Protagonists, Protomartyr, Pyrrhon, Quicksails, Quiet Eye, revenue share, Robert Millis, Sault, Scott McGaughey, Silicone Prairie, SituationChicago, Spectacular Diagnostics, Spotify, Surgery Boys, Thiago Nassif, touring, Vile Creature, Vince Ash, Warm Human, Warrior Tribes, Xoe Wise, Zombi

Music, Music Feature Jul 1, 2020
Another chance for a Bandcamp binge to help musicians

Even as Illinois reopens, artists and labels remain cut off from major sources of income—so Bandcamp is again waiving its cut of sales.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Blu & Exile, Bonjintan, Civic Center, COVID-19, Daniel Knox, Drab City, El Shirota, Eye of Nix, F.A.B.L.E., Heathen Beast, Hobbyist, Holy Hive, Icepick, Ingrid Laubrock & Kris Davis, J Wade, Jason Wilber, Khruangbin, Longshot, Midnight Dice, Muzz, Nnamdï, Ohmme, Owen, pandemic, Quin Kirchner, revenue, Roy Kinsey, Scott Free, Sweet Whirl, Tenci, Tengger, Thomas DaVinci, touring, Varsity, Vincas, waive, Wire, Wyatt Waddell, Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor

Music, Music Feature Jun 3, 2020
This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists

Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, #TheShowMustBePaused, Ahmaud Arbery, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, Big Silky, Black Dahlia Murder, Black Lives Matter, Blackout Tuesday, BLM, Brandon Lopez, Breonna Taylor, Brianna Agyemang, Buscabulla, Cafe Racer, coronavirus, COVID-19, Damacy, Danzig, Dark Fog, Dave Rempis, DJ Taye, Friday, George Floyd, Gia Margaret, Jamila Thomas, Joe McPhee, Joshua Virtue, K-Rad, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Kassel Jaeger & Jim O’Rourke, Melenas, Mother Nature, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Nation of Language, No Age, Okkultokrati, Options, Paal Nilssen-Love, Pam Tillis, pandemic, Paradise Lost, protests, Retirement Party, Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin, Sonic Boom, Steve Earle & the Dukes, Sugar High, TALsounds, Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon, the Soft Pink Truth, Tomeka Reid, Umbra Vitae, Vandermark / Drake / Trovalusci / Ceccarelli, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn, Xibalba, Zango the Third

Music, Music Feature Apr 29, 2020
Let the Reader help with your Bandcamp shopping list

In the past few weeks, we’ve recommended three dozen Bandcamp releases—and this Friday, the service will again pass its share of revenue along to artists.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, (Sandy) Alex G, albums, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, benefit, Bill Nace, Blacks’ Myths, Charles Rumback with Jim Baker and John Tate, coronavirus, COVID-19, Deeper, DJ Hank, Dool, Drama, Facs, Feminazgûl, Friday, Friend/Enemy, Gerald Cleaver, Helen Money, Human Impact, Igorrr, Irreversible Entanglements, Jackie Lynn, Lido Pimienta, Like Rats, Lord Dying, Machine Wash Music, Melkbelly, Midnight, Midwife, Ono, Oranssi Pazuzu, Orkesta Mendoza, pandemic, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Pigs x 7, revenue, RXM Reality, Serengeti, Sharkula, Stuck, support, V.V. Lightbody, waive, waiver, Waxahatchee, Whispers: Lounger Originals, Wrekmeister Harmonies

Music, Music Feature Mar 19, 2020
Friday is buy stuff from Bandcamp day

On March 20, the company responds to the pandemic by giving up its cut so that all your money supports musicians. Here are six local acts to start with.
- By Madeline Happold
- Tags: Music Feature, Bandcamp, Bandcamp day, Bandcamp Friday, cancellation, Change Is Bad, coronavirus, COVID-19, Gifts of Consciousness, Half Gringa, Izzy Olive, Josh Snader, Maggie Gard, Marguerite’s Novels, Nothing Blues, self-quarantine, Sick/Tired, social distancing, Sorespot, split, Stuck, support, Teased Pt. II: “Shockin’ and Rockin’ You”, Teggsas, Triac, Typesetter, Uma Boo, waiver

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Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020

With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.

Bandcamp Friday > Black Friday

How often can you be sure that so much of your money will reach the people who made what you’re buying?

Bandcamp Friday soldiers on

The nation may be diseased and broken, but you can still use your music dollars to do a small kindness for artists and labels.

Time to jump on the Bandcamp stuff you’ve been waiting to buy

Once again, it’s the one day of the month when almost all your money goes to the artists and labels you want to support.

The pandemic is still with us, so Bandcamp day is too

And the Reader recommends 34 recent releases available through the online music retailer.

The Reader has 56 places to start your shopping this Bandcamp day

Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels

Another chance for a Bandcamp binge to help musicians

Even as Illinois reopens, artists and labels remain cut off from major sources of income—so Bandcamp is again waiving its cut of sales.

This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists

Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.

Let the Reader help with your Bandcamp shopping list

In the past few weeks, we’ve recommended three dozen Bandcamp releases—and this Friday, the service will again pass its share of revenue along to artists.

Friday is buy stuff from Bandcamp day

On March 20, the company responds to the pandemic by giving up its cut so that all your money supports musicians. Here are six local acts to start with.

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With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.

How often can you be sure that so much of your money will reach the people who made what you’re buying?

The nation may be diseased and broken, but you can still use your music dollars to do a small kindness for artists and labels.

Once again, it’s the one day of the month when almost all your money goes to the artists and labels you want to support.

And the Reader recommends 34 recent releases available through the online music retailer.

Just in case you’ve been waiting to spend your monthly music budget till more of it would go to artists and labels

Even as Illinois reopens, artists and labels remain cut off from major sources of income—so Bandcamp is again waiving its cut of sales.

Many musicians and labels will donate their cuts to support the fight for Black lives.

In the past few weeks, we’ve recommended three dozen Bandcamp releases—and this Friday, the service will again pass its share of revenue along to artists.

On March 20, the company responds to the pandemic by giving up its cut so that all your money supports musicians. Here are six local acts to start with.

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