Three Beats: Buy Chrissy Murderbot’s record collection | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. The Chicago DJ/producer has a lot of great stuff for sale, and I chatted with him about the highlights of that collection.
Leor Galil, Reader music critic via In Rotation: A Reader critic, CHIRP Radio’s founder, and Zapruder Point’s singer dish on what’s got their toes tapping | In Rotation | Chicago Reader. My first “In Rotation” for the Reader!
Say good-bye to Joie de Vivre via Three Beats: Rockford emo band Joie de Vivre says au revoir | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. This week’s “Three Beats”: Emo
ELECTRONIC | Debuts by Sarah Weis and Supreme Cuts via Debuts from Sarah Weis and Supreme Cuts, finally a new release from Peira, and fresh stuff from Weekend Nachos and Novembers Doom | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. I get the scoop on these two very different electronic acts.
INDIE | A party for Implodes’ overdue debut via Three Beats: Implodes’ overdue debut, fingerstyle prodigy Ryley Walker, and a ‘moving painting’ at Chicago Opera Theater | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. A little write-up about fuzzed-out rock act Implodes.
World Music: A Shady Grove on Java | Bleader. I wrote a little piece about Chicago’s Friends of the Gamelan as part of the Reader‘s new “Three Beats” feature.