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- Music, Concert Preview Jul 11, 2019
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If you only see one act at ComplexCon Chicago, make it peerless local rapper Lucki
- Music, Music Feature Mar 15, 2019
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How did the 'industry plant' take root?
Hip-hop’s favorite conspiracy theory is now used to discredit breakout successes in other genres—and it’s no more plausible there.
- News & Politics, Politics Jan 24, 2019
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Q&A with mayoral candidate Amara Enyia
The candidate has a passion for public policy—but will it sway voters?
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 15, 2019
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Drone-song duo Mending near the halfway point of a 40-song narrative cycle
Plus: Top-notch Chicago rapper Tree decisively ends his release drought, and Whitney trumpeter Will Miller drops the debut by his psychedelic soul-jazz band.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 20, 2018
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The best overlooked Chicago hip-hop of 2018
The city’s hip-hop scene overflows with such variety and abundance that it’s impossible to show enough love to every great release—but that’s no reason not to try.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2018
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Chance the Rapper offers a video preview of the new Chicagoist
An explainer on Chicago's City Council system is the first release since he bought the shuttered site in July.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 21, 2018
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Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade
Saba’s Care for Me memorializes his cousin John Walt, whose generous spirit also survives in the arts nonprofit that bears his name—which holds its flagship concert fund-raiser this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Rahm’s legacy: fictitious narratives and real obligations
Don't be fooled. The mayor isn't gone yet, and neither are the problems he's leaving behind.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2018
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The end of Rahm Emanuel’s rule means that the center may no longer hold in Chicago
Our mayor is on the ropes, and with him the centrist brand of politics aggressively practiced by Emanuel over the last 25 years.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 8, 2018
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Chicago rapper Queen Key is gonna need a bigger crown
With this summer’s Eat My Pussy, she proves herself a star in the making, ready to carve out a larger role for women in the city’s hip-hop scene.
- Music, The Block Beat Jul 31, 2018
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Chicago rapper Taylor Bennett wants everywhere to be a place black people can be themselves
When he was a teenager, one of his havens was Navy Pier. And this weekend, he’ll make himself at home onstage at Lollapalooza.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2018
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Fashionistas: See what you're missing at the sold-out 29Rooms installation
The Chicago VIP opening of Refinery 29's touring installation 29Rooms featured footwork, celebrity sightings, and scads of backdrops for Instagram-worthy photos.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2018
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Chance the Rapper owns Chicagoist—now what?
Chance announced he'd bought Chicagoist via a single he dropped late last night, but what do we know about his ability to bring the site back to life?
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 26, 2018
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Chicago band Diagonal do mid-90s shoegaze so well they might have a time machine
Plus: Save Money rapper Sterling Hayes talks mental health on a new mixtape, and Bad Sons throw down an EP of classic street rock.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 26, 2018
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Jamila Woods and Kevin Coval collaborate with Vinyl for a Cause to benefit Young Chicago Authors
Woods contributed a song inspired by a Coval poem about the blues going electric, and Coval enlisted Tasha for a wintertime answer to Woods's "LSD."
- Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2018
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DIY designer Joe Freshgoods takes Chicago streetwear out of town with McDonald’s partnership
Free clothes with your fries.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 26, 2018
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The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires
More than a century ago, Joe Hill wrote some of the most enduring anthems in the radical union’s Little Red Songbook—and today’s activists carry on that legacy of struggle through music.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2018
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How and why did G Herbo’s show at the Vic get canceled?
Promoter Peter Jideonwo, who booked the Chicago rapper's show that had been scheduled for Friday, says pressure from the city and CPD led to the cancellation.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2018
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Meet local bedroom-pop wunderkind Victor, who just sold out of his debut EP in a week
Seventeen-year-old Victor Cervantes has only been posting his songs online for a few months, but he's already built a large and loyal audience.
- Film, Movie Feature Mar 12, 2018
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State basketball powerhouse Orr Academy’s incredible rise to glory bared in gripping new film
Shot in the Dark, executive produced by Chance the Rapper, spends two and a half eventful years at the west-side high school.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2018
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My Dad Wrote a Porno and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Harry Potter Trivia and more goings-on March 5-8.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 28, 2018
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Towkio is officially Chicago’s highest rapper
The Save Money MC’s balloon trip to the stratosphere wasn’t just to promote his first album for Rick Rubin—it’s also about inspiration, perspective, and togetherness.
- Music, The Block Beat Feb 14, 2018
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Vic Mensa revisits his vanishing Hyde Park
The rising rapper considers his teenage stomping grounds home, even though gentrification has killed his favorite hangouts.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2018
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Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Harold’s’ builds on Chicago hip-hop’s historical connection to the fried-chicken chain [UPDATED]
His mouth-watering lyrics will make you change your dinner plans.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
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Jeanne Ives says Bruce Rauner has ‘betrayed’ Republicans, and other Chicago news
Also, Senator Dick Durbin is bringing a local medical student "Dreamer" to Trump's State of the Union address.
