
Philip Montoro
Music Editor at Chicago Reader
Music editor, union unit chair, Chicago Reader. Opinions my own. He/him/y'all. [email protected]
Articles
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1 week ago |
chicagoreader.com | Philip Montoro
Chicago quartet Third Coast Percussion continue to celebrate their 20th year with this kaleidoscopic all-day event at Epiphany Center for the Arts. Rhythm Fest consists of 17 sets in four spaces (plus three open jams and an audiovisual installation by drummer Glenn Kotche), and the lineup is thick with TCP’s current and former collaborators.
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3 weeks ago |
chicagoreader.com | Philip Montoro
The first Dragged Into Sunlight show I saw ended up on my Reader year-end list of the best live metal of 2012. “The music roars out of a thick fog lit only by a blood-red glow and a spasming strobe,” I wrote.
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1 month ago |
chicagoreader.com | Philip Montoro
When you’re not in a good place, it can help to listen to music by somebody who sounds like they’re not in a good place. I love lots of those records, and Young Widows have made a few of the best. Guitarist and front man Evan Patterson and bassist Nick Thieneman founded this Louisville trio in 2006, and drummer Jeremy McMonigle has been aboard since 2008.
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1 month ago |
chicagoreader.com | Philip Montoro
Local promoters Lampo and the Renaissance Society are bringing drummer and sound artist Valentina Magaletti to Hyde Park for her first solo concert in Chicago. Born in Italy and based in London since 2000, Magaletti is a restless shape-shifter and voracious collaborator (she’s described herself as “really easily bored”), and in more than two decades of music making she’s crossed paths with dozens if not hundreds of artists, among them Nicolas Jaar, Bat for Lashes, Jandek, Nídia, and Susumu Mukai.
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2 months ago |
chicagoreader.com | Philip Montoro
Chicago Record Report is a monthly series highlighting some of the new local music that has caught the ear of Reader staff. The alt-rock duo of Claire Molek and Jason Savsani thought they were isolating themselves in a secluded Victorian mansion in rural Illinois to record their third album, but they quickly got the sense that they weren’t alone.
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