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• The patio at Elina’s

  19-08-2024 22:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nothing says Chicago summer like sipping an Aperol spritz on a patio—and Elina’s is the best place to do that. Elina’s is a popular restaurant, yet its patio remains a treasure because it can’t be seen from any street (or even their dining room). With string lights hanging over the roughly ten tables nestled between […]
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• Big K.R.I.T. brings timeless southern hip-hop to North Lawndale’s annual Firehouse Block Party for Peace

  19-08-2024 18:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Big K.R.I.T. is a fecund producer, rapper, and singer who’s been smearing tracks with his signature thump and thick southern accent for more than a decade. Born Justin Scott and raised in Meridian, Mississippi, K.R.I.T. is running a marathon, not a sprint—in fact, his stage name is a backronym for King Remembered in Time. He […]
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• Genre-blending DJ Tygapaw centers love and Black music at Smart Bar

  19-08-2024 18:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In many ways, Tygapaw is to Brooklyn what Trqpiteca DJs Cqqchifruit and La Spacer are to Chicago: they’re all queer DJs of color who extend electronic music’s history into the future by building on its Afro-Latine roots and centering queer clubgoers. So it’s extremely fitting that Trqpiteca would bring Tygapaw to the midwest for a […]
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• Dominican rapper J Noa represents her homeland with a fierce, visceral flow

  19-08-2024 18:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  J Noa is still in her teens, but her life has already been extraordinary. On her 2023 single “No Me Pueden Parar” (“I Can’t Be Stopped”), the Dominican hip-hop star uses machine-gun staccato rapping and eviscerating rhymes to articulate four aspects of what makes her “impresionante” (“awesome”): her age (she was 16 when the song […]
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• Esmé Patterson makes easy folk music that will cut you

  19-08-2024 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Esmé Patterson’s light voice and mostly acoustic folk music can lull you into letting your guard down—and that’s when she belts you with a sucker punch. Her landmark 2014 LP, Woman to Woman (Greater Than Collective), is a collection of acerbic responses from the perspectives of female characters in classic songs written by men (plus […]
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• Dillinger Escape Plan reconvene with original singer to celebrate 25 years of Calculating Infinity

  19-08-2024 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Dillinger Escape Plan’s 1999 debut full-length, Calculating Infinity, hit the metal and hardcore scenes like a runaway train. The record took the abrasive, sinister acrobatics of east-coast 90s hardcore bands such as Deadguy and Jesuit to implausible extremes, paving the way for technical metalcore to become one of the most popular sounds of early […]
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• Chicago indie-rock project Girl K goes full pop

  19-08-2024 18:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In fall 2017, Chicago singer-songwriter Kathy Patino self-released Sunflower Court, the debut album from her solo project, Girl K. Patino’s earliest recordings have a shagginess reminiscent of old-fashioned garage rock, but in the ensuing years, she’s evolved past that—the full band she assembled for Girl K’s 2019 follow-up, For Now, played sweet, sometimes languorous indie […]
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