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Greater Grand Crossing native HateSonny delivers sawed-off raps with a terse punch that makes him sound spring-loaded–at any moment he could burst with fury and beat the track into submission. When he combines his blunt, forceful verses with bombastic instrumentals, it’s enough to get the teens moshing, but he’s also been developing his flexibility as a rapper since launching his career a few years ago. On the new Golden Child, HateSonny juxtaposes his gritty voice with emotive samples, coaxing out a depth of expression that his more aggressive material doesn’t admit. He eases up on his battering-ram flow on “St. Mark,” allowing its watery gospel sample to accentuate the nuances in his verse, and the song’s small concessions to vulnerability–including a brief reference to an argument with his mom–feel especially hard-won. v
The Chicago Blackhawks were very lucky to be given a second life when the NHL announced its return to play format. They came in against the Edmonton Oilers as huge underdogs and now they have a chance to eliminate them. They came back in game three from a 3-2 deficit to win the game by a final score of 4-3. They tied the game with under six minutes left in regulation before Jonathan Toews scored the go-ahead goal with just over a minute left.
Now on Friday, they will face the toughest test of them all. They have to do what they need to do to extinguish the Oilers from the playoff bubble. The Oilers are certainly going to come out flying in this game so the Blackhawks need to have their best game of the series in order to win. They probably don’t want to play a game five against the Oilers as the “road team”.
It feels like the Chicago Bears are never going to have a good quarterback. They have been stuck with complete mediocrity or less at the position for the entirety of their franchise. Even in the one year we always look back to, 1985, they didn’t have some superstar under center. Jim McMahon wasn’t bad or anything like that but he isn’t an all-time great by any means. He wasn’t even the best quarterback in Bears history.
Must come to an end.
They don’t have to end so demonstratively, but that was the fate of the Cubs winning streak ending in a 13-2 drubbing by the Royals on national television. The 13-2 score doesn’t even do full justice for how thoroughly the Cubs were beat tonight. The Cubs managed to put more than one runner on base only once prior to the final inning and only broke through with two outs in the ninth inning. The Cubs were able to avoid their first shutout, but the game was well in hand by that point. Victor Caratini and Nico Hoerner were able to drive in the two runs, but it was a quiet night for the bats.
Still it is hard to feel too down after a 10-3 start. The Cubs are supposed to be able to start their series against the Cardinals tomorrow, who have to make roughly half a bajillion games already, but we will see if first pitch happens.
[embedded content] Source: FanGraphsThe Royals starter Brad Keller kept the Cubs bats quiet for five innings. Kyle Zimmer shut down the Cubs for two innings and Kevin McCarthy closed it out in a clearly not save situation. The most fun moment of the Cubs at the plate might have been David Ross sending Alec Mills to the plate with one out in the ninth inning. Mills watched three straight over the heart of the plate before walking back to the dugout.
Tyler Chatwood was not sharp. He punched out Whit Merrifield to start the game but Jorge Soler, Salvador Perez and Ryan O’Hearn hit back to back to back singles to put the Royals ahead 1-0. Chatwood struck out Mondesi and got a pop up from Alex Gordon to end the inning. Maikel Franco hit a double to start the second. Chatwood would add two more strikeouts to his total before Whit Merrified hit a bomb making it 3-0.
The wheels came completely off in the third inning with Adalberto Mondesi and Alex Gordon hitting back to back doubles. Franco then hit a blast. Jorge Lopez singled, and then Nick Heath doubled to drive in the Royals seventh run and end Chatwood’s evening. Duane Underwood Jr. had some control issues, and the Royals were able to add two more tallies before the third inning was finished.
Underwood pitched a clean fourth inning, but the Royals tacked on a couple more runs in the fifth inning. Whit Merrifield hit a one out single and back to back doubles from Perez and O’Hearn made it a 11-0 ballgame, and cheers to you if you stuck with this one after that point.
Dan Winkler gave up a two out bomb to Jorge Soler in the seventh inning and Craig Kimbrel was shaky again yielding just one run in the eighth inning. Ryan Tepera was the one Cubs reliever who was able to put up a zero and escape this evening.
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Tyler Chatwood was not good tonight, but it was a very different sort of not good then his disastrous 2018 campaign. Chatwood did not issue a single walk in his outing, and his command wasn’t that bad. The Royals just hit him often and often hard. It felt a bit like Marge yelling at Bart in this clip when thinking about Chatwood not beating himself.
[embedded content]That and the first few innings was definitely playing “It’s still good. It’s still good.” as the Royals continued to extend their lead.
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A five-bedroom contemporary house in Northfield, designed by noted Chicago-area architect Thomas Roszak, sold July 16 for $2.63 million.
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I was once at a Nest Egg gig where a friend said to me, “The thing I love about these guys is that they’re punks who just happen to play psychedelic music.” This joyously astute statement gets at something important about psychedelia: though the word often conjures lovey-dovey visions of the pastoral and the perfumed, 1970s movements such as Krautrock and Eurorock took these heady, trance-inducing sounds into much bleaker and more experimental terrain. I’m pretty sure I’ve read that David Thomas of Cleveland protopunk gods Pere Ubu has described his band’s music as psychedelic, but under a veil of darkness (or something poetic like that). And Nest Egg’s driving acid punk brews up a similarly malevolent storm. The Asheville band formed in 2011 and released their first LP, the incendiary Respectable, in 2015. The trio features Harvey Leisure on fuzzed guitar and cavernous vocals and Ross Gentry on driving bass and textural keys, but their not-so-secret weapon is drummer Thom Nguyen. He excels at the hard-hitting motorik rock beat and moonlights with avant-garde experimental types such as guitarist Tashi Dorji; he brings the expansive subtleties he employs in the improvisational realm to Nest Egg’s gargantuan sound. The band’s new LP, Dislocation, opens with Nguyen’s drum attack on the savage epic “Eraser,” where his frenzied tom-tom rhythms propel Leisure’s jagged, scuzzed-out guitar and menacing, nihilistic vocals, intoned from the void–and then the whole band roars to a fearsome, noisy boil. This sure isn’t yer grandmum’s psychedelia: Nest Egg come off more like an angry, determined, and fiercely minimalist postpunk band a la Wire or Killing Joke. The track “Helix” could invite comparisons to Hawkwind or Can, with its nine-plus minutes of floating sonics following a single unrelenting chord progression, but it’s not as easy as you might think to draw lines between prog, Krautrock, and punk–Hawkwind supposedly once had Johnny Rotten as a roadie. Why not just invent a new name and call Nest Egg “maxi-minimalism”? This style is best heard on the darkly excessive nine-minute jammer “Gore,” which barely has any riff or progression at all and only really changes in the density and volume of its guitar scree–imagine if the Gun Club joined Faust and Whitehouse for a gig at the dawn of the apocalypse (the actual apocalypse, I think, is due in just a few minutes). And right when you think you’ve figured out the Egg’s modus operandi, they throw in a posthardcore blast on the comically named “What!!??! I’m a Bastard!!??!” By the end of Dislocation I’ve mentally crowned Nest Egg the Band Most Capable of Scoring the Collapse of Civilization With Bong in Hand. That’s high praise these days. Invest in Nest Egg’s latest endeavor, as it may very well be the last best musical document of the end. My only friend. The end. v
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This week we’re sharing a poster for a locally produced livestream concert with images from a Chicago artist previously featured in this space. Animator, artist, and Columbia College grad Angel Onofre created this poster for a show to be streamed from Belmont Cragin’s Treehouse Records studio via the YouTube channel of the band Sugarpulp. It’s free to view, and donations will be accepted for the National Independent Venue Association’s #SaveOurStages campaign.
The Reader continues to welcome submissions of gig posters for future concerts, be they virtual or in-person. We’d also love to keep receiving your fantasy gig poster designs.
To participate, please e-mail [email protected] with your name, contact information, and your original design or drawing (you can attach a JPG or PNG file or provide a download link). We won’t be able to publish everything we receive, but we’ll feature as many as possible. Your e-mail should include details about the real or fantasy concert and about any nonprofit, fundraiser, or action campaign that you’d like to bring to the attention of our readers.
Not everybody can make a gig poster, of course, but it’s simple and free to take action through the website of the National Independent Venue Association–click here to tell your representatives to help our homegrown music ecosystems survive the pandemic. And anybody with a few bucks to spare can support the out-of-work staffers at Chicago’s venues–here’s our list of fundraisers. Lastly, don’t forget record stores! The Reader has published a list of local stores that will let you shop remotely.
ARTIST: Angel Onofre
GIG: Daisychain, Sunvolume, and Sugarpulp livestreaming on Fri 8/7 at 6 PM via Sugarpulp’s YouTube channel
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By the time Chicago rapper Juice WRLD died in December at age 21, he’d already made a gigantic impact on hip-hop. His meteoric rise started when he was just a teenager with the 2017 single “Lucid Dreams,” a landmark in the burgeoning “emo rap” genre, which exploded after he rerecorded it for his 2018 debut full-length, Goodbye & Good Riddance. The whole album was a stone cold masterpiece; Juice sang some of the catchiest melodies ever put to tape over slick, ethereal trap beats, weaving in poetry about self-doubt, isolation, and drug use. But barely a year and a half after the release of Goodbye, pills and lean–the same things Juice’s fans loved to hear him sing about so beautifully–became his demise. He overdosed on oxycodone and codeine on a flight back home to Chicago, just days after his birthday. Juice allegedly left behind something like 2,000 unreleased songs, 21 of which have made their way onto his new posthumous release, Legends Never Die. These tracks follow the Juice WRLD formula: they walk the line between pop and trap, with haunting melodies and profoundly sad lyrics. His approach on these new songs is a bit more streamlined than in the past: they’re less up and down, with a smoother flow, and he’s more economical, clean, and concise in his delivery. Legends Never Die shows what a talent Juice had grown into, and how much promise he still had when his life was cut short. And the matter-of-fact way he lays out his issues with mental illness and substance abuse makes the whole record feel even more sad and eerie. Rumors of further posthumous Juice WRLD releases already abound on the Internet, so maybe Legends Never Die–which feels like a nice capstone to a short but powerful career–won’t be the last we hear of him. v
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