Leor Galil
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Chicago Reader music writer
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Shoegaze is everywhere, especially in the midwest. I reached out to more than a dozen musicians and experts to talk all things midwest shoegaze for my newest Reader feature.
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How does our shoegaze grow? - Chicago Reader
As this noisy rock subgenre has surged in popularity, young midwestern artists—Sunshy, Griefeater, Interlay—have played a key role in its evolution.
https://chicagoreader.com/music/music-feature/shoegaze-midwest-slide-away-sunshy-lovesliescrushing-cloakroom-griefeater-interlay/
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Bill Corbett
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Grogu to the polls
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Eric Harvey
about 15 hours ago
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Rip the goat
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“Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captured by both.”
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The Feed Is Fake
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama you’ve scrolled by recently was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html
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Can’t believe the White Sox had an emo night and didn’t let me throw out a first pitch smh
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I hope they also have a spirited discussion about the hit fx television show the bear
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Well damn!
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Luke O'Neil
2 days ago
Var Lawrence, who wrote this piece below for Hell World about being locked down in a nursing home in NYC during the peak of Covid has passed away. Chip in a few bucks for his funeral if you can. Thank you.
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-v...
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Drew Harwell
2 days ago
The lede of our Ben Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the
@nymag.com
story today
washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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I don’t know, this creature could be quirkier
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
3 days ago
LEOR ONCE AGAIN IS HERE FOR ME
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Looks nice in print
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Hasn’t Paste been sitting on Daytrotter for close to a decade? Why relaunch it now in… New York?
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Daytrotter is back
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/wendy-eisenberg/daytrotter-is-back-2026
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Evening
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this is just an advertisement
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Lotta music news this week: -Nico Segal, Shawnee Dez, Zion Ali, and more perform at the Save Our SNAP Block Party -Chicago punk supergroup NIXD celebrate their new LP at Public Works Gallery -FyeNixx plays a vintage shop -new music from Plant Matter, Adamn Killa, and Sex Gun (w/ Kai of Sharp Pins)
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The Save Our SNAP Block Party rallies musicians to fight food insecurity - Chicago Reader
Plus: News about releases and concerts from veteran punks NIXD, underground rapper FyeNixx, indie-rock project Plant Matter, and more
https://chicagoreader.com/music/gossip-wolf/iman-save-snap-punk-fuck-nixd-fyenixx-ragefest-plant-matter-adamn-sex-gun/
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Been looking forward to this launch
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4 days ago
Hell yeah!
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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ALA Workers Make Progress Toward Labor Union
Union-eligible employees of the American Library Association are voting on a union, ALA Workers United, this month, with ballots to be tallied on May 27.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/100381-ala-workers-make-progress-toward-labor-union.html
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“Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra on the Tito’s Handmade Vodka stage at Lollapalooza” is, uh, a new one
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Tasha Robinson
5 days ago
Well, Friday was my last day at Polygon after a seven-year run. Wish I was surprised about being laid off, but with the current state of the media and economy, this has felt inevitable for a long time. So if you know anyone who needs a diligent deep-dive editor or writer, I'm on the market.
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Matrix Sound Of Inevitability
Alt: Agent Smith from the Matrix says "That is the sound of inevitability."
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if you’re a hidden gem posting on ig do you get any engagement?
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Ben 🏳️🌈
5 days ago
Love those free range roller rinks with a retro arcade that's two NBA jams and a pac man
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Verhoeven, scrolling aimlessly on his phone, comes across this story, opens up a little notebook that says “film ideas,” and crosses off “doomed characters erect false idol of despot.”
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[bravely] im a midwest emo
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shawn
11 days ago
next saturday! come talk about the quantum campus with us and your neighbors and eat free pastries and drink free coffee
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shawn
8 days ago
why strain your eyes reading tiny words on a screen? pick up a free copy of the reader and spend some time this weekend with
@djbyrnes1.bsky.social
’s deep dive into eileen o’neill burke’s … complicated relationship with the pretrial fairness act.
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why read a navel-gazey hamfisted jacobin essay that misreads the recent cultural legacy of rock when you can read a more intensely reported essay about a rock subgenre with “gaze” in its name
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I wrote about Armlock for the Reader
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Australian indie rockers Armlock reinvent an old wheel with new polish - Chicago Reader
Australian duo Armlock dress up straight-as-an-arrow forlorn indie rock with the kind of expertly deployed special effects that helped make Alex G famous—a guitar that sounds like it’s stuttering and ...
https://chicagoreader.com/music/concert-preview/armlock-schubas/
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8 days ago
Check out
@imleor.bsky.social
’s Reader piece as well!
chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
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Oh hell yes!
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9 days ago
The deluge of AI-generated music on streaming platforms continues. Took a look at one band's efforts to curb bootleg AI remixes of its work:
www.wired.com/story/this-r...
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This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
When Stick Figure’s six-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-reggae-band-is-in-a-nightmare-battle-against-ai-slop-remixes/
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Jesse Hawken
9 days ago
It’s absolute horses out there innit, blimey
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10 days ago
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My shoegaze deep dive is also in this issue
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thank you tv guide
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Dang, this place makes a great Detroit-style pizza
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Fat Chris’s Pizza And Such Closing In Andersonville After 9 Years
Couple Michael Milazzo and Violeta Djukic are calling it quits May 22 due to high food prices and operating costs, though they’re not ruling out opening another restaurant.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/06/fat-chriss-pizza-and-such-closing-in-andersonville-after-9-years/
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shawn
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new: since she took office in december 2025, cook county state’s attorney eileen o’neill burke has made a concerted effort to keep more people behind bars while awaiting trial. advocates accuse her of deliberately trying to undermine the pretrial fairness act. via
@djbyrnes1.bsky.social
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Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s complicated relationship with the Pretrial Fairness Act - Chicago Reader
Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s rising again.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/eileen-oneill-burke-pretrial-fairness-act/
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once the hit fx television show the bear is over what is the one pop culture product affiliated with Chicago that every local outlet will relentlessly report on like it’s an election
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This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
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jamelle
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You’re telling me Matt Taibbi got… (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) … owned?
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🔥🛠 Fire-Toolz 👩🏻💻🔴
11 days ago
it's leor time mfs!!!
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I interviewed
@fire-toolz.bsky.social
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Fire-Toolz levels up to Warp Records - Chicago Reader
With the Fire-Toolz album Lavender Networks, prolific weirdo Angel Marcloid becomes labelmates with the likes of Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada.
https://chicagoreader.com/music/gossip-wolf/angel-marcloid-fire-toolz-warp-records-lavender-networks/
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[lcd soundsystem voice] i was there when broken social scene’s “lover’s spit” soundtracked an ad for valtrex
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nobody tell jonathan about the bean
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roses are red the passage of time you cannot allay
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i’ve once again lost the pulitzer for best bit reporting
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so youre telling me there’s an opening on kid cudi’s tour
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12 days ago
new: we've heard a lot about the quantum computing campus in south chicago. but who exactly is involved? and what exactly are these organizations planning to do?
@chicagoreader.com
contributor grey lucas answers those questions and more in this comprehensive guide:
chicagoreader.com/news/explain...
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