Reviews, profiles and news about music in Chicago
A local Chicago outfit, Cafe Racer specializes in recalcitrant and melancholic surf rock that makes you want to go surfing in Lake Michigan—in the winter—maybe naked.
It’s a great time to be a music fan in Chicago.
While holiday concerts abound, quite a few are far less conventional than you might expect.
Angeleno Jilian Medford produces a lo-fi indie-rock sound that could acutely score a mid-2000s Michael Cera film but still feels postmodern. Melancholic but defiant, her lyricism coupled with simple and elegant guitar progressions provides for the addicting kind of pop to sway awkwardly to.
World Within a Song is a collection of fifty listener-song relationships—interspersed with some short, palate-cleansing, dreamlike “Rememories” from Tweedy’s life—that focus on other people’s songs and what they have taught him about “how to be human.”
Global sounds across genres fill the clubs and concert halls in November.
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