J.R. Nelson

J.R. Nelson is a music journalist. Below are 108 of 108 articles dotpiff indexes across 1 publication. Each links out to the original at the publisher.

• Avantist’s David Arias lightens up the ‘bummer rock’ of his Troigo project - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 02, 2024
• The Arab virtuosos of Chicago Maqam play a relief concert for Gaza - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Dec 12, 2023
• Partywatcher honors his Dominican roots with his first all-Spanish release - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Dec 05, 2023
• The inimitable but intermittent Roctober roars back with a hefty double issue - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 29, 2023
• Cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos brings My Ideal Is Windy to the Lincoln Park Conservatory - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 21, 2023
• Indie rockers Soft and Dumb pause work on their next album to drop an acoustic EP - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 14, 2023
• The Trenchies celebrate a new record with an old lineup - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 07, 2023
• Power trio Chicken Happen whip up a new album with a dash of Meat Wave - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 31, 2023
• RIP multimedia rock artist Shelley Howard - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 24, 2023
• Macie Stewart gives her solo songs their grandest canvas yet - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 17, 2023
• Nathan Graham blends blues, country, and soul on his star-making debut album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 10, 2023
• Chicago indie rock mourns Ryan Deffet of Space Gators - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 03, 2023
• Future Rootz teams up to reissue a rare album of trippy 70s Afro-Cuban funk - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 26, 2023
• Hammered dulcimer player Joel Styzens celebrates a lushly orchestrated new solo album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 19, 2023
• House veteran Craig Loftis needs help to keep the music going at the Lodge - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 12, 2023
• Jazz pianist Pat Leary celebrates a sleek, bustling electric trio album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 06, 2023
• Dave Rempis steps away from Elastic Arts after more than 20 years of service - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 29, 2023
• Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse have finally decided their new album is done - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 22, 2023
• Lovely Little Girls drop a dazzling new album of grotesque, theatrical prog rock - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 15, 2023
• Cemetery founder and front man Danny Gallegos dies - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 09, 2023
• Globe-trotting groove wizards Magic Carpet drop their FPE Records debut - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 01, 2023
• Two former Electric Eels show up to celebrate an obsessively curated new compilation - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 25, 2023
• WHPK faces a funding crisis that could take it off the air - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 18, 2023
• War Effort drop a scorching EP of ‘first thought, best thought’ D-beat hardcore - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 12, 2023
• Armando Perez of ÉSSO goes solo on oobs Rx - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 05, 2023
• Froghat fills an amphibian-shaped hole in the surf-rock firmament - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 27, 2023
• Ghost Voice reimagine classical music for pedal steel, electric piano, and double bass - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 21, 2023
• Meat-and-potatoes rockers Razed by Apes celebrate a classic-sounding debut - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 14, 2023
• Avant-garde jazz genius Henry Threadgill drops in to talk about his new memoir - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 06, 2023
• Wild Prairie Vinyl & Vintage is closing in June - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 31, 2023
• Elijah Montez and Kaitlyn Murphy of Daydream Review decamp for the west coast - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 23, 2023
• Soul artist and freshly minted Chicagoan K.Raydio drops a gorgeous, generous new EP - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 16, 2023
• Heavyweight saxophonist Mars Williams needs help fighting cancer - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 09, 2023
• DJs Sold and Hi-Vis launch their Lizard Label with a party for producer Wav Fuzz - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 03, 2023
• Farewell to Record Wonderland architect Pat Deasey - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 25, 2023
• Scene-powering fusion collective Cordoba celebrate a new album at Constellation - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 18, 2023
• Miyagi Records completes its evolution from online outlet to pop-up shop to brick-and-mortar storefront - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 11, 2023
• Dream-pop artist Lipsticism celebrates a new collaborative single at Sleeping Village - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 04, 2023
• Whitney Johnson of Matchess presents an ambitious durational work at Bond Chapel - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 29, 2023
• Late jazz pianist Bob Dogan gets a tribute show at Elastic Arts - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 22, 2023
• Chicago Afro-soul singer Nola Adé releases her long-awaited second EP, Royal - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 14, 2023
• Chicago Psychfest returns with two headlining appearances by guitarist Jeff Parker - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 07, 2023
• Teenage indie rockers Lifeguard become Matador labelmates with Horsegirl - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 28, 2023
• Avant-garde soprano Amanda DeBoer Bartlett drops an album of songs 16 years in the making - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 21, 2023
• Farewell to DJ Dave Roberts of Planet Earth and Late Bar - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 14, 2023
• Midnight Minds drop a new album of serene and soothing ambient psychedelia - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 07, 2023
• One of Chicago’s best singer-songwriters drops a new EP - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 31, 2023
• Drag City more than doubles the posthumous catalog of outsider punk J.T. IV - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 24, 2023
• The Empty Bottle makes room at the top - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 17, 2023
• Tin Pan Alley songwriter Irene Higginbotham comes to life at Constellation - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 10, 2023
• Bric-a-Brac throws a fundraiser that’s also a call for unflooded inventory - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 04, 2023
• Dark Fog cap off another prolific writing streak with the gloriously weird digital LP 7734 NI - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Dec 21, 2022
• Iron Years drop a debut album of gothic darkwave postpunk dance music - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Dec 13, 2022
• Weird-rock trio Michael Columbia reunite after a 12-year hiatus - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 29, 2022
• Erica Mei Gamble releases a set of minimalist beats and electronics four years in the making - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 22, 2022
• Dave’s Records goes out in a blaze of glory - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 15, 2022
• Divino Niño and artist Roland Santana host a three-day extravaganza of music and painting - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 08, 2022
• Tatsu Aoki and Da Wei Wang team up for a double album of ecstatic ambience - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 02, 2022
• Death-metal warhorses Bones drop a new album just in time for Devil’s Night - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 25, 2022
• Dance-music maverick James Marlon Magas drops an all-star album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 18, 2022
• Rapper-singer Angelenah makes her R&B debut with I Don’t Regret a Thing - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 11, 2022
• The Pleiades Series celebrates its first year of elevating women and nonbinary improvisers - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Oct 05, 2022
• Fire-Toolz sails even further off the map with a genre-obliterating new EP - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 27, 2022
• Fran drops an elegant new single about loneliness and estrangement - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 21, 2022
• Annie Fish simulates her dream of 90s alt-rock stardom - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 14, 2022
• Warforged’s new death-metal opus belongs on a shelf with early Opeth - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Sep 06, 2022
• Siul Reynoso of Los Gold Fires drops a supremely summery new single as Gabacho - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 30, 2022
• Local darkwave group Kill Scenes preview a new album at the Hideout - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 23, 2022
• Goregrind monsters Organ Failure deliver 17 tracks in 15 minutes on their album debut - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 17, 2022
• WLUW’s Abstract Science celebrates 25 years with a 25-hour marathon broadcast - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 09, 2022
• Mexico City transplant Fernando de Buen López leads Chicago band Así Así in their album debut - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Aug 02, 2022
• Chicago lures jazz trombonist Jeb Bishop back home - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 27, 2022
• Meteor Gem opens its doors to Chicagoland’s trve metalheads - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 19, 2022
• Artist and poet Marvin Tate tees up a busily multidisciplinary July - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 12, 2022
• Weirdo rippers Lollygagger make their vinyl debut with Total Party Kill - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jul 05, 2022
• Ne-Hi alum Mikey Wells drops a mellow, summery new album with Flamingo Rodeo - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 21, 2022
• Chicago country craftsman Dan Whitaker decamps to Texas - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 14, 2022
• Bev Rage & the Drinks ring in Pride with a kaiju rampage - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jun 08, 2022
• The Pride Bands Alliance celebrates 40 years with a symphonic-band blowout and two world premieres - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 25, 2022
• Emma Hospelhorn of Ensemble dal Niente releases a scintillating solo debut as Em Spel - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 18, 2022
• Mystery Actions debut a new blast of anti-war punk rock - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 11, 2022
• Sound artist Rocio Zavala debuts with an album of otherworldly drone - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · May 03, 2022
• Indie-pop goofballs Baby Teeth ratchet up their reunion with another single - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 28, 2022
• Angela James’s big voice fills her new album with wide-screen melancholy - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 19, 2022
• Experimental Sound Studio unveils an archive devoted to beloved saxophonist Fred Anderson - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 12, 2022
• Half-Ukrainian musical jack-of-all-trades Pasha Pear drops a hallucinatory new dance single - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Apr 05, 2022
• Venerable jazz guitarist George Freeman celebrates 95 years with a new compilation - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 29, 2022
• Young indie rockers Friko celebrate a sophisticated new EP with a springtime show - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 22, 2022
• Psych-folk project the Singleman Affair debuts album number four at Constellation - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 15, 2022
• Chicago jangle-pop group CalicoLoco drop their sharpest single yet - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 08, 2022
• Farewell to Mark ‘Marko’ Rahman of 90s Chicago hip-hop group East of the Rock - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 01, 2022
• The Poison Arrows return from pandemic shutdown with their first album in five years - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 22, 2022
• Garifuna singer Ifeanyi Elswith drops a powerful, poignant Valentine’s Day single - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 16, 2022
• Synth-pop songwriter Warm Human shines even on odds and ends - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 08, 2022
• Antifolk band Boo Baby drop their long-in-the-works second album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Feb 02, 2022
• New-music feast the Frequency Festival returns after taking a COVID year - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 25, 2022
• New-music combo Honestly Same debut their improvised meditations - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 18, 2022
• Clementine Wink drops the most surreal Hen of the Woods album yet - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 11, 2022
• Tireless collaborator Reno Cruz steps out with his debut solo album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Jan 04, 2022
• Maggie Kubley of Celine Neon drops a video about a private kind of self-care - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Dec 21, 2021
• Metallic hardcore masters Harm’s Way celebrate a decade of Isolation - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Dec 08, 2021
• Fire-damaged venue Golden Dagger raises funds to help it reopen - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 30, 2021
• Elenna Sindler teams up with Hasco Duo for an EP of haunting art songs - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 17, 2021
• The Roadburners bid farewell to their charitable Bring It Up High Festival - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 10, 2021
• Chicago bruisers Nequient drop a new EP to soften you up for their next album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 02, 2021
• Bitchin Bajas travel the spaceways on their new album - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Nov 01, 2021
• White Mystery share the first track from their latest reason to look forward to spring - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 10, 2017
• Weirdo-electronic label Midwich premieres tracks from locals Hide and Alex Barnett - Chicago Reader — Chicago Reader · Mar 30, 2016