Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You
@jmainzer.bsky.social
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My blog is Since I Left You! he/him
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/
perfect billing at the Hideout with
@anjimile.bsky.social
and Oyeme last Wednesday
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Anjimile & Oyeme Live Show Review: 5/20, Hideout Chicago
Anjimile BY JORDAN MAINZER Talk about artists making the most out of not just minimal setups, but the spaciousness of their voices. Last Wednesday at the Hideout, North Carolina's Anjimile and local...
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5 days ago
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As Hen Ogledd's DISCOMBOBULATED (
@dominorecordco.bsky.social
) goes on, it becomes simultaneously more urgent and more hopeful.
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Hen Ogledd Album Review: DISCOMBOBULATED
(Domino) BY JORDAN MAINZER The Newcastle upon Tyne quartet really means it with the title of their fourth album. When you listen to Hen Ogledd's DISCOMBOBULATED, it seems like your schemas have been...
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5 days ago
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Wednesday at the Hideout, North Carolina-via-Boston singer-songwriter
@anjimile.bsky.social
performs from his terrific third album You're Free to Go, out now via
@4ad.com
. Spoke to him about the making of the record, its striking cover art, teaching music
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14 days ago
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"'The Callous Man'" is a great focus track in juxtaposition to the two more straight forward singles that came before it. It offers a deeper look in to where the album goes if you sit with the whole thing." Thanks to Primitive Ring for premiering with me!
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Primitive Ring Focus Track Premiere: "The Callous Man"
Primitive Ring BY JORDAN MAINZER What do you do when you're prolific musicians, working with restless virtuosos like Ty Segall and leading bands such as Hoveriii, and you have a free moment? Start a...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/816683452451667969/primitive-man-focus-track-premiere-the-callous
17 days ago
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Max Clarke and company can extract the universality out of and abstract the chronology of any song, theirs or others’. Review of Cut Worms at Lincoln Hall from Saturday. Transmitter's out now via
@jagjaguwar.bsky.social
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20 days ago
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Opening for their label founder Mac DeMarco at
@saltshedchicago.bsky.social
last Thursday, Mock Media offered a preview of the disparate areas they’ll be traversing in the future. Words on and photos of their set, and photos of Mac's set, too!
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Mock Media Live Show Review & Mac DeMarco Photo Gallery: 5/8, The Salt Shed, Chicago
Mock Media BY JORDAN MAINZER Very few bands making music in 2026 sound like Mock Media. This is probably because very few have such strong irreverence for the type of propriety that would prevent...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/816408452838588416/mock-media-live-show-review-58-the-salt-shed
20 days ago
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Wrote about LP8 from Mitski, her cat album
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Mitski Album Review: Nothing's About to Happen to Me
(Dead Oceans) BY JORDAN MAINZER During her performance of Puberty 2's "I Bet On Losing Dogs" in Grant James' concert movie The Land, Mitski drops to all fours and pants. The song is not literally...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/815965686025306112/mitski-album-review-nothings-about-to-happen-to
25 days ago
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Open your ears listening to a SUNN O))) album or live show, and you can hear into the past and future.
@subpop.bsky.social
@saltshedchicago.bsky.social
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27 days ago
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"Part of me staying in music and being lucky enough to get a budget for my 13th rock and roll record as a middle-aged man, [is my ability to say,] 'What do you think?'" Read my interview with White Denim. 13 out now via
@bellaunion.bsky.social
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https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/815053584170450944/white-denim-interview
about 1 month ago
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"My favorite music is music you don’t know what direction it’s gonna go in…and it surprises you." Spoke to Selwyn Birchwood about Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues (out now via
@alligator1971.bsky.social
)
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Selwyn Birchwood Interview: An Arrival of Sorts
Photo by Laura Carbone BY JORDAN MAINZER Often, it takes a musician handing over the controls to a second set of ears to sonically manifest their aims. The opposite was the case for Selwyn Birchwood...
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about 1 month ago
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"I think we can see…not just as artists today…that the confusion of the world is mirrored by the confusion of so many people materially." Spoke with Thomm Jutz about alchemy, psychology, and his great new album Ring-A-Bellin'
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about 2 months ago
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mclusky hasn't lost a step on record (
@ipecac.com
) or live (
@metrochicago.com
), while
@pile.bsky.social
's embrace of post-hardcore on Sunshine and Balance Beams (
@sooperrecords.bsky.social
) has made them a looser live band
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about 2 months ago
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Have found myself returning all year to Tragic Magic, LP1 from Lattimore x Barwick, made in partnership with
@infinemusic.bsky.social
and the
@philharmonie.bsky.social
. Wrote a review!
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Mary Lattimore & Juliana Barwick Album Review: Tragic Magic
(InFiné) BY JORDAN MAINZER The type of music that harpist Mary Lattimore and singer/producer Julianna Barwick play is transformational. Beautiful and sometimes droning, it lulls you into hypnosis,.....
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/813150311490502656/mary-lattimore-juliana-barwick-album-review
about 2 months ago
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"Foo Fighters’ 'Big Me' video is iconic, so I didn’t try to compete with it. I went in the opposite direction and kept things really personal."
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Bosh Rothman Song Premiere: "Big Me"
Photo by Megan Anton BY JORDAN MAINZER Introducing a new side of yourself to the public often feels vulnerable, even when that introduction is mostly via covers of well-known songs. For drummer Bosh...
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2 months ago
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On Saturday at Lincoln Hall, Cass McCombs stretched out even the most taut and punchy songs from his latest album Interior Live Oak (
@dominorecordco.bsky.social
), while Danny Arakaki reined in his compositions, reducing them to their bare elements.
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Cass McCombs & Danny Arakaki Live Show Review: 3/28, Lincoln Hall, Chicago
Cass McCombs BY JORDAN MAINZER One's a playful singer-songwriter and the other's a certain Deadhead, but on their tour, Cass McCombs and Danny Arakaki have switched places. On Saturday at Lincoln...
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2 months ago
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Had a great chat with Carlos Niño around his new album Bubble Bath for Giants and releasing music consistent with his values
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Carlos Niño Interview: The Infinite of our Souls and Spirits
Carlos Niño BY JORDAN MAINZER When I first listen to a Carlos Niño & Friends record, I dive right in without reading too much about it. The sounds seem endless, a spectrum from the human voice to...
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2 months ago
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Check out my interview with Cass McCombs about Interior Live Oak (
@dominorecordco.bsky.social
) and the "flimsy" way he and his band play live. Catch him Saturday at Lincoln Hall!
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Cass McCombs Interview: Songs Aren't Sounds, They're Something More Ethereal
Photo by Silvia Grav BY JORDAN MAINZER For almost 25 years, NYC-via-California singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has shared gentle, sparse, impressionistic songs and albums that combine Dylan-esque...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/812060742080774144/cass-mccombs
2 months ago
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Did Michael Shannon and
@jasonnarducy.bsky.social
know that their tribute to one of the finest rock bands of all time would somewhat follow the evolution of
@remhq.bsky.social
themselves? My review of their
@metrochicago.com
show on Friday.
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Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy: (Go Back to) Metro
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy and Friends BY JORDAN MAINZER When actor Michael Shannon and prolific local hero/musician Jason Narducy teamed up to play R.E.M.'s classic debut Murmur in full at.....
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2 months ago
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From the opening samples (!) of “The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”, it was clear that “stripped-down” wasn’t synonymous with “unplugged.” Reviewed @joyformidable.bsky.social's set at @oldtownschool.bsky.social last month
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3 months ago
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"I feel like the live versions naturally evolved from the recorded versions because we all bring our own sensibilities to them...That’s the beauty of the alchemy of a band."
@softcult.band
speaks to me about touring When A Flower Doesn't Grow.
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Softcult Interview: Being the Change, Making the Change
Photo by Kaylene Widdoes BY JORDAN MAINZER The benefits of leaving a smothering situation might not be immediately apparent, but they're almost always fruitful. Twin siblings Mercedes and Phoenix...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/810345571316580352/softcult-interview
3 months ago
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Max Clarke of Cut Worms told me his upcoming album Transmitter (
@jagjaguwar.bsky.social
) is "a product of being alive for longer." Maybe he'll discuss it with Jeff Tweedy (who produced it) tonight at
@oldtownschool.bsky.social
?
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Cut Worms Interview: A Different Kind of Substance
Cut Worms BY JORDAN MAINZER These days, Max Clarke explores the elusive. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, who records as Cut Worms, has made a name for himself writing classic-sounding rock and...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/810256615633829888/cut-worms-interview
3 months ago
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"That’s...what I’m trying to do with this album: do a more rock and roll album, something that will make you dance and move and inspire you to have fun with the social commentary." Spoke to
@lowcutconnie.bsky.social
about the upcoming Livin in the USA
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Low Cut Connie Interview: Pennies in the Jar
Photo by Danny Clinch BY JORDAN MAINZER Adam Weiner, the founder and sole constant member of the project Low Cut Connie, operates with steadfast principles. From his continually self-released music,...
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3 months ago
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Thanks to Ritzy from
@joyformidable.bsky.social
for talking about the band, being vulnerable in revisiting older material, she and Rhydian's solo projects, and their stripped-down duo show tomorrow night at
@oldtownschool.bsky.social
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The Joy Formidable Interview: Little Bricks Towards Something Better
Photo courtesy of the artist BY JORDAN MAINZER Let's get this out of the way: Welsh band The Joy Formidable, whose drummer Matt Thomas left the band a couple years ago, haven't broken up. They...
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3 months ago
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Talked to Langhorne Slim in the middle of his current tour for The Dreamin' Kind, which includes a stop tomorrow night at
@thaliahallchicago.bsky.social
. "This set is 95% the new record, which is super fucking exciting."
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Langhorne Slim Interview: A Fire Within Me
Photo by Kate LaMendola BY JORDAN MAINZER When I called Langhorne Slim a couple weeks ago, he picked up from a Hilton Hotel in Carrboro, North Carolina, having left for tour from his home in...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/809451866205405184/langhorne-slim-interview
3 months ago
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Despite the album title Laughter in Summer (
@transgressive.bsky.social
), the symbol of the preceding season, spring, and its connotation of cyclical rebirth, is exemplary of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s remarkable story and eventual legacy.
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland Album Review: Laughter In Summer
(Transgressive) BY JORDAN MAINZER "Life is a part of love," sang Beverly Glenn-Copeland on "Prince Caspian's Dream", a track from 2023 album The Ones Ahead. That album represented the culmination of...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/809341702974423040/beverly-glenn-copeland-album-review-laughter-in
3 months ago
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Spoke with actor and musician Adam Goldberg about his new The Goldberg Sisters album When the Ships of My Dreams Return, out tomorrow, why he doesn’t often play live, and allowing himself to be sad while listening to Elliott Smith and Sparklehorse.
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3 months ago
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Like the best indie rockers that preceded them, Westside Cowboy’s ramshackle nature seems not just intentional, but downright holy.
@pitchperfectpr.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Don't try to define Westside Cowboy on their sophomore EP, So Much Country 'Till We Get There
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4 months ago
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Jana Horn's new record is a balm. Previewed her show at Judson & Moore tonight, with James Elkington opening
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Jana Horn Live Preview: 2/12, Judson & Moore, Chicago
Jana Horn BY JORDAN MAINZER Normally, I don't give too much attention to capitalization choices in song titles, but that the tunes on Jana Horn's self-titled album (No Quarter) are in sentence case....
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/808355222081667072/jana-horn-james-elkington-live-preview-212
4 months ago
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A thudding snare hit from
@noochiez.bsky.social
introduces a level up for
@ratboysband.bsky.social
, 30 seconds into their new album Singin' to an Empty Chair. The band doesn't look back. Review:
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4 months ago
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"Recording layers of guitars and proper fuzzy guitars is so much fun. It’s very easy to get carried away." Spoke to Lande Hekt about everything Lucky Now, her great new album out via
@tapeterecords.bsky.social
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Lande Hekt Interview: All Music Is So Embarrassing
Photo by Robin Christian BY JORDAN MAINZER "There's always things to write about if you move around enough," Lande Hekt said to me last month. She was speaking over Zoom from a cold, breezy...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/807810861392625664/lande-hekt-album-review
4 months ago
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reposted by
Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You
Andrew Hertzberg
4 months ago
Was here too. Can confirm, SPRINTS rips. Read Jordan’s write-up!
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Thursday at Lincoln Hall, in the middle of “Coming Alive”, a standout from their second album All That Is Over (
@subpop.bsky.social
), SPRINTS made it clear they had leveled up.
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SPRINTS & Trophy Wife Live Show Review: 1/29, Lincoln Hall, Chicago
SPRINTS BY JORDAN MAINZER There was a moment during SPRINTS' set on Thursday at Lincoln Hall where it was clear to me that the Dublin punk quartet had leveled up. It wasn't a particularly showy...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/807473963009720320/sprints-trophy-wife-live-show-review-129
4 months ago
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Friendship's Caveman Wakes Up (
@mergerecords.bsky.social
) is a series of earnest barroom confessionals...Natalie Jane Hill's Hopeful Woman (
@dearliferecs.bsky.social
) is content to drift even though she knows she’ll hit rough patches. Both playing 2morrow
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Friendship & Natalie Jane Hill Live Show Preview: 1/29, Empty Bottle, Chicago
Friendship BY JORDAN MAINZER The bill tomorrow night at the Empty Bottle presents two different sonic manifestations of interpretational music, observations colored by the subconscious mind....
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4 months ago
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Wednesday night at Schubas represented a remarkably confident beginning of an assured new era for Brigitte Calls Me Baby
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Brigitte Calls Me Baby Live Show Review: 1/21, Schubas, Chicago
Brigitte Calls Me Baby frontman Wes Leavins BY JORDAN MAINZER In the middle of presenting songs from Brigitte Calls Me Baby's upcoming sophomore album Irreversible (ATO), frontman Wes Leavins...
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4 months ago
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You could say A Brief History of Blindness (
@propellersound.bsky.social
) is a lifetime--of fandom, hard work, leadership, struggle--in the making. My interview w/ physician and power pop aficionado Stéphane Schück about the latest from The Salt Collective
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The Salt Collective Interview: A Beautiful Surprise
Photo by Declan Levitt BY JORDAN MAINZER Stéphane Schück's life so far has been chock full of coincidences. How many full-time physicians do you know, who are also power pop aficionados, who...
https://sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/806360059621883904/the-salt-collective-interview
4 months ago
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Austra's Chin Up Buttercup (
@dominorecordco.bsky.social
) works because it’s not linear; a lesser artist might have succumbed to the temptation of telling us what happened. Katie Stelmanis instead mirrors the imperfect timeline of heartbreak.
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5 months ago
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"How one’s lived experience colors the interpretation of a song is as different as there are as many people on the earth." Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu spoke to me about the band's new covers record out Friday via
@polyvinyl.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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From daring experimentalists
@maryhalvorson.bsky.social
and
@orenambarchi.bsky.social
to pop geniuses
@sparksofficial.bsky.social
and FKA twigs: SILY's top albums of 2025
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SILY's Top Albums of 2025
BY JORDAN MAINZER During our first year of full-blown fascism, music--and art in general--proved to be more important than ever, as the form of expression with the purest intentions around which to.....
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5 months ago
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Lilly Hiatt's Forever is full of swagger and new love heightened by its instrumentation. My review:
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5 months ago
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"The suggestion that music is an artform rooted firmly to 'the moment' seems absurd to me... If we take my seemingly habitual use of reverb as perhaps the most potent example, the so-called 'present' is rendered invisible by it." Spoke with KRAMER
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Bonner Kramer Song Premiere: "Whispers for the Dead"
Bonner Kramer BY JORDAN MAINZER Tomorrow, prolific avant-garde legend Bonner Kramer caps off a busy 2025 with …and the crimson moon whispers goodbye (Shimmy-Disc), his first solo album since 2020's....
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6 months ago
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Wrote about the most recent
@bobmouldmusic.bsky.social
album; if you're anxiously awaiting a live show or music from Sugar, might I suggest a song I didn't even write about in my review, "When Your Heart Is Broken"? As good as anything on Copper Blue!
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Bob Mould Album Review: Here We Go Crazy
(Granary/BMG) BY JORDAN MAINZER With October's announcement of the long-awaited Sugar reunion and last month's unearthed HĂĽsker DĂĽ live performances, it's easy to forget that back in March,...
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6 months ago
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"We work well under pressure. If you give us a week to do something, we’ll do it in the last half a day." Panic Shack speak to us about "laughing, drinking, chatting, gossiping" and then buckling down in the studio to make their self-titled debut
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Panic Shack Interview: Reclaiming the Bum Crack
Panic Shack BY JORDAN MAINZER When guitarist Meg Fretwell and bassist Emily Smith of Cardiff band Panic Shack asked me for recommendations of things to do should they ever come to Chicago, Smith...
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6 months ago
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On
@alabasterdeplume.bsky.social
's A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (
@intlanthem.bsky.social
), he's invitational rather than antagonistic in his attempts to heal the globe.
@atlesmusic.bsky.social
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Alabaster DePlume Album Review: A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole
(International Anthem) BY JORDAN MAINZER Last year, Mancunian musician Alabaster DePlume previewed his most recent album A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole with, among other things, a poetry book....
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6 months ago
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"There’s no big concept. It’s, 'Here’s some music that I think feels good; maybe it’ll make you feel good too.'" Spoke with jazz pianist Aaron Parks about By All Means, his third album for
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social
out now
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Aaron Parks Interview: Titles and Subtitles
Photo by Isaac Namias BY JORDAN MAINZER Little do I think about improvisational jazz, one of the most profound tenets of Black American music, in the same breath as improvisational comedy,...
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6 months ago
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SILY contributor Keith Miller on Case Oats' debut Last Missouri Exit (
@mergerecords.bsky.social
), which "feels like the perfect soundtrack for a drive through the Midwest as you pass by cornfields, grain elevators, cows, and scattered patches of forest."
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Case Oats’ Last Missouri Exit: A Debut That Resonates in Studio and on Stage
Photo by Braedan Long BY KEITH MILLER Chicago band Case Oats makes an immediate impression with their debut album, Last Missouri Exit, released in August on Merge. Thoughtful, steady, and inviting,....
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San Francisco psych rockers Magic Fig on their upcoming album Valerian Tea, visual identity, recording practices, jamming, and more
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Magic Fig Interview: Kaleidoscope of Sound
Photo by Kittie Krivacic BY JORDAN MAINZER San Francisco psych band Magic Fig are in no hurry. They don't celebrate their new album Valerian Tea, out Friday via Exploding in Sound, with a record...
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Did the reissues of two The Faint albums from earlier this year (
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The Faint & Hercules and Love Affair Live Show Review: 11/12, Metro, Chicago
The Faint BY JORDAN MAINZER There's Never Been A Better Time To Assess The Faint's Legacy, argued Stereogum earlier this year in an interview with lead vocalist Todd Fink around the March reissues.....
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Asking whether something in an S.G. Goodman song is “true” reduces her storytelling to mere linear literalism. The same could be said for Fust frontperson Aaron Dowdy.
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Nicholas Tremulis has brought together another batch of like-minded musicians for the Hua Momona Foundation fundraisers in Chicagoland today through Saturday. Spoke with him about his involvement.
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Nicholas Tremulis, Helping The Mainland Feed the Island
Bernard Fowler and Nicholas Tremulis at the 2025 Maui Music & Food Experience; Photo by Sean Hower BY JORDAN MAINZER Chicago tech executive Gary Grube founded the Hua Momona Foundation to feed Maui....
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