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Big, honking slices of Irish-inflected, middle-Americana awaits in the latest album from Chicago’s The Great Whiskey Project....
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A sumptuous calling card for a band that’s early out of the gates but ready to run....
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Second time is the charm for Chicago’s Panda Riot. To celebrate the vinyl issue of their well-received full-length Northern Automatic Music (QRO review), the dreamgaze quartet is throwing down for a Release Party 2.0 at the Hideout this Friday, October 11th. And why not? 2.9 million vinyl records have...
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Out of the ashes of Boston-favorite Girlfriends, Bent Shapes emerges with their new LP Feels Weird....
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Year of Endless Light, the new album from New York-based ensemble Wilder Maker, bears the indelible thumbprint of Gabriel Birnbaum....
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The shoegaze gods have spoken!...
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Hazey, dreamy, shiny, gazey: Chicago’s Panda Riot returns with its full-length Northern Automatic Music. It’s Jesus & Mary Chain plus the frostiness of a Twin Peaks synth line. Stiff percussion, six-string atmospherics, and found sounds add up to an ambitious instrumental effort on tracks like “Golden Age”, while the...
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Illinois’ Hank. (sic) shreds. The period after the name is a bit too precious, but you probably picked up their EP The Venture for free on Bandcamp so there’s not much cause for complaint. Think early Dinosaur, pre-Dinosaur Jr. even — or non-Barlow Sebadoh. Plus a touch of Primus...
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Chicago’s Anatomy of Habit is known for an uncompromising approach to their sound, their album design, their performance. The doom/metal/industrial/etc. crowd is a pretty intense scene to begin with, but Anatomy of Habit makes good use of the gravitas to hyper-infuse every modality of their music with good artistic...