Jeff Jaskowiak: Jasko’ Filisko & Ortega: Friendship
Jeff Jaskowiak has been making music for a very long time. This winter, he released the album "Jasko’ Filisko & Ortega: Friendship". Built around a range of long standing sonic styles (acoustic rhythm, freeform jazz, etc.) the album is a fresh and inspiring light in this time of Covid. ...
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JaNae Contag – Evolving Apparitions & Environments
Since releasing the EP Implied Elegance in 2015 and relocating to Chicago in 2016, JaNae Contag has kept a diligent stride in her ongoing aesthetic investigations. Her sonic and visual inquiry offers penetrating comment into the metamorphosis of middle America. This week The COMP Magazine visited Contag's Humboldt ...
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Chicagoland Summer Music Festivals 2016
Chicagoland Summer Music 2016
Greetings all music lovers! Here's a snippet of what's being offered up this summer at some area festivals:
Do Division Street Fest - June 3-5, 2016
Music acts are booked by The Empty Bottle and Subterranean, this is for those interested in music on the fringe of ...
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Roger Carlson – Painting In Reverse
Last Fall at Joliet's Gallery 7, USF Art & Design alum and Joliet, Illinois native, Roger Carlson produced the comprehensive and thoughtful exhibition, Innocent Dawn. The exhibit consisted of a number of artworks he has been diligently working upon since 2006. In early January, The COMP Magazine caught up ...
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FKA twigs – M3LL155X
Featured Artist for 9/17/15:
FKA TWIGS
M3LL155X
Young Turks
2015
In her young career, Tahliah Debrett Barnett (aka FKA twigs) has established her style and sound at a resounding speed. Upon moving from Gloucestershire to London at the age of 17, Barnett transformed her interest in dance to an adept singer, songwriter and ...
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Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Featured Artist for 9/8/15:
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Marathon Artists/Milk!
2015
Courtney Barnett's debut album is a compulsive listen. You want to play the album over and over again. One can easily identify with the affable and entertaining Barnett. She is charming live and the ...
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Arthur Russell – Corn
Featured Artist for 8/7/15:
Arthur Russell
Corn (Reissue)
Audika Records
2015
Since his untimely departure in 1992 at the age of 40, Arthur Russell and his music continues to evolve a captivating and prophetic voice. During his life, Russell collaborated with many notable artists - Bootsy Collins, Talking Heads, Phillip Glass, Jennifer Warnes, Allen ...
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Tame Impala – Currents
Featured artist of the week for 7/27/15:
Tame Impala - Currents (LP)
Released : July 15, 2015
Label: Interscope Records
All Songs written and recorded at Kevin Parker's home studio.
Continuing the heavy wordy introspection, Tame Impala's recent release Currents, delves further into serious personal insight as Kevin Parker refines his skill-set as ...
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2015 – Pitchfork Music Festival Review
Pitchfork Music Festival Review
Union Park, Chicago, Illinois
July 17-19, 2015
Pitchfork's 10th Anniversary!!!
In the 10th installment of Pitchfork, one experienced an extremely hot and humid Day 1, torrential rain that evacuated the grounds (briefly) on Day 2, and a pleasant, yet warm, setting for Day 3. Once again, the festival ...
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Chance the Rapper to Close Out Pitchfork 2015
Featured Artist: Chance the Rapper
Pitchfork Music Festival
Union Park, Chicago, Illinois
Sunday, July 19, 2015
With the recent release of his 1st studio album, Surf, Chance the Rapper will be calling closure to festivities in Chicago's near west side festival. Since the May 28th release, Surf (with Donnie Trumpet & The Social ...
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