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- Music, Music Feature Dec 10, 2019
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Rapbrarian Roy Kinsey finds his voice in queer hip-hop
With his next album, he wants to make the music he wishes he’d heard as a young man.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 22, 2019
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Not Normal Tapes gives itself a year to live
Plus: Rabble Rabble reunite to benefit Resilience, and beat-scene mainstay Uncle El celebrates a new album at Emporium.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 26, 2019
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Rap that asks the right questions
The fledgling Why? Records crew—Davis, Malci, Joshua Virtue, and Ruby Watson—are already making some of the city’s most compelling and idiosyncratic hip-hop.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 29, 2019
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C.H.E.W. take a bite out of hardcore
The Chicago four-piece twist and tear at their favorite genre to give it a strange new shape.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 13, 2017
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Chicago’s DIY punk scene packs a ton of its greatness into one show
Plus: Reader writer Erin Osmon reads from her new book on Jason Molina, and Takashi Murakami’s MCA exhibit attracts some notable guests.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
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Five local labels that had excellent years in 2016
These modest Chicago operations have gotten so good at what they do that they’re shaping music scenes far and wide.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2016
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Chicago punk label Not Normal Tapes goes hard right out of the gate with the debut of its Infestational fest
Not Normal Tapes demonstrates its range and ambition with a three-day hardcore festival featuring Uranium Club, American Hate, Negative Scanner, the Bug, Tigress, and dozens more.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 22, 2015
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BBU's MC Epic wins the Matthew Freeman Social Justice Award
Plus: New releases from ripping punk four-piece the Bug and techno duo Juzer
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2014
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Olympia punks Vexx screech and wail on the noisy track 'Clairvoyant'
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Clairvoyant" from Olympia punk band Vexx.
- Music, In Rotation Oct 21, 2014
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In Rotation: Ralph Rivera of Not Normal Tapes on the bulb that never dims at Light in the Attic
Plus: Hip Kid Records' Jim Gies on one of America's best melodic punk bands, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on dream pop for seasonal depressives, and more
- Music, Music Feature May 31, 2012
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Not Normal Tapes: hard to its (plastic) core
A man, a woman, and a mission to document the midwest's hardcore-punk scene
