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- Gossip Wolf: Ensemble dal Niente cellist Chris Wild drops a solo record
Ensemble dal Niente cellist Chris Wild drops a solo record, Chuck Wren celebrates 20 years of American Ska-thic, and more
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Gossip Wolf readers might know cellist Chris Wild from Chicago contemporary-classical corps Ensemble dal Niente. On Tue 1/28 he’ll put out his first album of solo and chamber music, Abhanden (Navona), and on 1/5 at Constellation he plays an album-release concert with dal Niente soprano Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, violinist J. Austin Wulliman, and outsider-folk trio the Grant Wallace Band.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Video: The Final Chicago Photoanimation Video Of The Year
To close out 2013 we bring you this video made by Antonio Canseco… two years ago. [ more › ]
- Unlicensed to ill
Bootleg rap and R&B vinyl is thriving, even though most of the music is easy to buy or free to download.
by Leor Galil
If you’re a fan of rap or R&B and have a thing for vinyl, chances are you got the gift of wax this holiday season. Did somebody surprise you with an LP copy of, say, Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80, Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange, or Kanye West’s Yeezus?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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