Micco Caporale

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Articles

Niis’s raging punk draws from the best of LA’s classic scenes

3 days ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

If you’ve ever shopped the flippantly playful clothing line Fashion Brand Company, you’ll probably recognize Mimi Doe. She’s one of the company’s most frequently featured models—the redhead with the Crass tattoo—and she’s also the front person for Los Angeles punk band Niis.
Art beyond the EXPO Chicago booths

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

EXPO Chicago as an art market innovator is something not always appreciated outside the ivied walls of the art world, if acknowledged at all. Technically, it’s the oldest modern art fair in North America; it started as Art Chicago in 1980, then was bought and rebranded as EXPO in 2012. EXPO’s legacy has been eclipsed by edgier American art fairs, like Art Basel Miami Beach, over the years.
Absinthe service at the Violet Hour

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. The Violet Hour is renowned for its cocktail menu.
Review: The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (2024) exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. It’s a low-budget existential thriller for the terminally online made by Braden Sitter Sr., a breakout filmmaker in the burgeoning indie film scene dubbed the New Toronto Bizarre. Taking its title from a meme—one of the first poster parodies of 2017’s The Bye Bye Man—the film brings its initial source material’s logline (“Don’t think it.
Techno artist Marie Davidson wants you to dance in the face of digital tyranny

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Marie Davidson is a techno trickster. Electronic-music lovers have been grooving to the Quebecois artist for a minute, especially after Pitchfork chose her third album, Adieux au Dancefloor, as one of the 20 best electronic records of 2016. But Davidson really connected with wider audiences two years later, with the release of the propulsive single “Work It,” from 2018’s Working Class Woman.
Dim makes crushing shoegaze out of disparate elements

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Dim’s name is familiar to Chicagoans who love shoegaze that goes heavy on the guitar pedals, but the local four-piece should be more widely known. The band debuted in 2015 with a powerhouse self-titled cassette via local boutique label Physical Medium, then followed it with the industrial-tinged full-length Stereo 45 in 2017. The gauzy, distorted four-track EP they dropped in 2023 is still their latest release.
Circuit des Yeux steps into darkwave territory on the new Halo on the Inside

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Haley Fohr’s versatility and ambition have made her one of Chicago’s most exciting musical talents. Her alter ego Jackie Lynn is a rock-disco queen with a country songwriting style, but she’s better known for her project Circuit des Yeux, an experimental odyssey she’s sustained for almost two decades.
Techno artist Marie Davidson wants you to dance in the face of digital tyranny

2 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Marie Davidson is a techno trickster. Electronic-music lovers have been grooving to the Quebecois artist for a minute, especially after Pitchfork chose her third album, Adieux au Dancefloor, as one of the 20 best electronic records of 2016. But Davidson really connected with wider audiences two years later, with the release of the propulsive single “Work It,” from 2018’s Working Class Woman.
Colombian party outfit Los Pirañas lean into distortion and improvisational spirit on their latest album

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Los Pirañas are a supergroup of Colombian rock ’n’ rollers who do tripped-out takes on Latine party music—they celebrate their vast musical heritage not as a cultural artifact but as a breathing and constantly evolving organism. At the trio’s heart is Edris Álvarez, a composer and guitarist best known as founder and bandleader of the Meridian Brothers, a long-running project that takes roots music into avant-garde territory.
Donzii embrace postpunk’s playful side on Penetrate

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Los Angeles is producing plenty of reverb-drenched postpunk projects these days, but where other artists veer toward synth pop, Donzii lean into no wave and Italo disco. Founded in Miami and recently relocated to LA, Donzii are led by multidisciplinary artist Jenna Balfe and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Fuller, and they’ve hinted at this musical lineage by naming themselves for a brand of Italian speedboats—modified with an extra “i” for punk effect. Donzii promise zip and chintz, bootleg style.