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Let’s Go Somewhere: An Interview With Netherfriends

BY ANDREW HERTZBERG In April 2010, singer-songwriter Shawn Rosenblatt gave up his apartment, his job, and an essentially comfortable life to live permanently on the road in his band-turned-solo-act Netherfriends. We may have crossed paths at Columbia College Chicago, but didn’t officially meet until I interviewed him at Café Mustache in Logan Square for Chicago...

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The Highs of Ohio: Nelsonville Music Festival, 2013

BY PETER LILLIS I’ll admit, I’m down on Ohio. My entirely biased distaste for the state is founded on one exorbitant speeding ticket, a few exceptionally long drives from the East Coast to the Midwest, several national stories of debaucherous destruction of property (including an Underground Railroad Memorial) courtesy of the Miami (OH) University Greek system...

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#BAM: An Interview with Nicholas Payton

BY DANIEL BEAUREGARD Nicholas Payton began playing trumpet at age four. By nine he was sitting in with local bands in his hometown of New Orleans. And before he even finished high school he was hailed as a virtuoso. In his early 20s, Payton made his major-label recording debut as a leader with From This...

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Our Live Life, Vol. 5: May Concerts in New York and Chicago

May is a time when bands get quick runs out across the country before the non-compete clauses of festival season take effect. With Lollapalooza and Pitchfork soon upon us in Chicago, and Governors Ball, the Northside Festival, and others in New York, we were excited to catch 26 shows over the last 30 days. This...

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This Summer Hurts: An Interview With Laura Stevenson

BY JORDAN MAINZER Even when Laura Stevenson is writing about a “journey to the center of the earth,” she’s still a Long Islander at heart. On the heels of Wheel, her third and best overall studio album, second for emerging label Don Giovanni, and first under her own name and not her band’s name (The...

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Life On Mars: An Interview With Jan St. Werner

BY JORDAN MAINZER While the two French robots in Daft Punk are getting plenty of hype for their comeback album, an older Euro pair has quietly been making noise for the past twenty years. Although “German electronic duo Mouse On Mars” may sound like a premise for an SNL skit, Jan St. Werner and Andi...

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Knock Knock. Who’s There? Philip Glass and Friends @ MHOW

BY KEITH MEATTO The legendary composer Philip Glass makes music that’s so minimalist and repetitive that it has inspired a joke: Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Knock Knock. Who’s there? Philip Glass. Knock Knock… On...

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Ideas of Reference: Ten Years of Four Tet, Rounds

BY PETER LILLIS Ten years ago, Four Tet released Rounds, his third full-length, and his most focused work. Four Tet—UK’s Keiran Hebden—composed an affirming masterwork of mood, rhythm and repetition using only disparate, seemingly unrelated samples, culled from just about anywhere you can imagine, and beyond. Throughout Rounds, Hebden carefully stacks loose, manipulated jazz rhythms...

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Chewed Up and Spit Out: A Review of The Haxan Cloak’s Excavation

BY JORDAN MAINZER Death kindly stopped for Emily Dickinson, but hasn’t been so polite to The Haxan Cloak’s Bobby Krlic. Though in fairness, Krlic’s music doesn’t offer the kindest portrayal of Death. Within the first two minutes of The Haxan Cloak’s incredible new album Excavation, Krlic (who looks like Sam Beam’s evil twin) pays tribute to some of the...

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Young Bloods Find God: A Review of Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City

BY KEITH MEATTO Vampires have surpassed their pop culture saturation point, thanks in part to the HBO series True Blood and the Twilight series of books and blockbuster movies. Literary types can enjoy Karen Russell’s latest short story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove while couch potatoes can watch a new commercial where suburban vampire...

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Must Never Change: An Interview with GOAT

BY PETER LILLIS Korpilombolo, Sweden is a remote “locality” in northern Sweden. With approximately 530 residents, Korpilombolo recently gained notoriety for being home to the mysterious GOAT, a fast rising and fantastic psychedelic rock band with a penchant for tribal drums, blues-drone freakouts and voodoo-like masks. Wrapping up their first US tour, GOAT played sold-out...

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It’s Still Us Against Them: Titus Andronicus, The So So Glos, and Sharpless @ Metro Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER After touring the hell out of their three LPs, you’d think that Titus Andronicus would run out of live show surprises. Wrong. On May 4 at Metro Chicago, the everlasting “war” between New York and Chicago provided plenty of fodder for the Brooklyn (via Jersey) band Titus, Brooklyn DIY punks The So...

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