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Plus Wishy, L’Rain, Lava La Rue, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, and a Wrap-up of the Last Three Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 17, 2026
By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)
Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2026. This edition actually covers the last three weeks. The week before last was the July 4th holiday and last week I was getting over jetlag and our hosting company was having a technical issue that caused our website to be down for a day. So it’s a supersized list this week. More
Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, Gwenno, Alex G, Folk Bitch Trio, The Beths, Deftones, Nourished By Time, Water From Your Eyes, Modern Nature, CMAT, and More
Sep 08, 2025
By Mark Redfern
At the start of February we launched our new Albums of the Month series, where we highlight the best albums released in the previous month, starting with January’s albums and followed by February’s albums, March’s albums, April’s albums, May’s albums, and June’s albums. Now here is a roundup of July and August’s 2025’s best albums. More
Plus Open Mike Eagle, Modern Nature, Geese, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 11, 2025
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2025. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the July 4th holiday, so this week’s list encompasses the last two weeks (although it’s mainly songs from this week). More
Featuring Clipping, Open Mike Eagle, Homeboy Sandman, Cakes Da Killa, and More
Nov 13, 2020
By Dustin Krcatovich
On October 8, some joker on Twitter (I won’t embarrass them by naming names/handles) posed the question—“who you think will have the better October album?”—with pictures of the covers of Clipping’s Visions of Bodies Being Burned and Open Mike Eagle’s Anime, Trauma, and Divorce underneath. More
Featuring RMR, Saweetie, God Colony, Buddy, Akai Solo, Open Mike Eagle, and Tall Black Guy
Jul 29, 2020
By Dustin Krcatovich
Like most people that heard “RASCAL” when it dropped earlier this year, I wanted to know more about RMR from the jump. There’s something so perverse about flipping a Rascal Flatts love ballad and turning it into an anti-cop anthem, of making a refrain of “fuck 12” into a lighters-hoisted singalong. More
A Round-Up of Artists We’re Excited to See at the Chicago Festival
Jul 20, 2018
By Timothy Michalik
There’s a very specific aesthetic that fills the air of Pitchfork Music Festival. You could blame it on the slightly pretentious nature of the multimedia behemoth, or the dozens of record shop pop-ups scattered within the tent filled merchandise area. But what really seems to be that aesthetic is the overall energy found within the gates of Chicago’s Union Park. That energy is mellow, obsessive, and ridiculously easygoing. More
Interviews
Reassembling Shattered Creativity
Aug 01, 2025
By Kyle Mullin
What might you do if your phone got destroyed? Debilitating as that sounds for any of us, Open Mike Eagle found it all the more soul crushing. More
Reviews
Sep 13, 2017
By Will Butler
Open Mike Eagle‘s sixth album is rooted deep in the art-rapper’s Chicago background. While Dark Comedy cast its thematic net wider, covering everything from Mike’s appreciation for Adventure Time to a dreary drive through Idaho, Brick Body Kids Still Daydream hones in on a number of more timely topics like black excellence, faith, and the impending apocalypse. More
