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All content by Miriam Benjamin
Chance the Rapper and Jeremih perform for a hometown crowd on July 17.

Pitchfork Take Two: Saxophones, Blue Stage Struggles, and a Taste of Summer Breeze

By Miriam Benjamin
August 23, 2016
The 1975 appeals to a fervent fanbase of young women—most of whom weren't even alive in 1975.

Who Gets The 1975 Best? “Just Girls”—and for Good Reason

By Miriam Benjamin
August 9, 2016

Chance Colors Outside the Lines at Listening Party

By Miriam Benjamin
May 23, 2016
Students attend a Jeremih performance at Summer Breeze 2016.

Summer Breeze Was Frozen, Let it Go

By Miriam Benjamin
May 19, 2016

Signed to the Streets: UChicago Professor Explores Connection Between South Side Gangs and Drill Rap

By Miriam Benjamin
May 19, 2016

In Heaven With Twin Peaks at Lincoln Hall

By Miriam Benjamin
May 16, 2016
Sam Wilkerson of White Reaper crowdsurfs at The Sidewinder, a venue in Austin.

No Rest at South By Southwest

By Miriam Benjamin
March 31, 2016
Diet Cig is Noah Bowman (drums) and Alex Luciano (vocals, guitar).

Fuck Your Ivy League Sweater!

By Miriam Benjamin
March 31, 2016
From left to right: Seb Mueller, Max Becker, Joey Armstrong, and Cole Becker.

Uncommon Interview: Cole Becker of SWMRS

By Miriam Benjamin
February 25, 2016

Art or Artifice? For Indie Pop Duo, It’s Up in the Cloudz

By Miriam Benjamin
January 25, 2016
together PANGEA's William Keegan, Erik Jimenez, Danny Bengston, and Roland Casio (not pictured) pair inhibition-freeing punk with an unassuming stage presence.

PANGEA shifts tectonics at Subterranean

By Miriam Benjamin
January 8, 2016

John Lydon and Public Image Ltd are still What the World Needs Now…

By Miriam Benjamin
November 23, 2015

Hippo Campus nearly reaches heights of their “heavy pop” inspirations

By Miriam Benjamin
November 9, 2015

Hinds’s show at Lincoln Hall was a punk, drunk slam dunk

By Miriam Benjamin
October 26, 2015

Rocking and raging at Riot Fest; highs and lows of a musical weekend

By Miriam Benjamin
October 15, 2015

An Indie Rock Nerd’s Experience at an EDM Festival

By Miriam Benjamin
October 8, 2015

Kanye, FKA twigs rock FYF Fest even without Frank Ocean

By Miriam Benjamin
September 13, 2015

Spend Labor Day weekend dancing with Chicago’s final summer festival

By Miriam Benjamin
September 1, 2015

Music festival is FYFty Shades of Great music

By Miriam Benjamin
August 7, 2015

Morrissey stays relevant with timely opinions and timeless talent

By Miriam Benjamin
August 4, 2015

Pitchfork closes its first decade and stays in tune

By Miriam Benjamin
August 4, 2015

English Graffiti draws upon its predecessors, for better and for worse

By Miriam Benjamin
May 28, 2015

Joanna Gruesome’s short and sweet Peanut Butter sticks

By Miriam Benjamin
May 21, 2015

Django Django is unreined, suffers from Second Album Syndrome

By Miriam Benjamin
May 7, 2015

After 12 years, reunited Blur strikes back with The Magic Whip

By Miriam Benjamin
April 30, 2015

Stevens can’t translate intimate album to 3,500-seat venue

By Miriam Benjamin
April 27, 2015

Attempt at unique indie rock album Foiled

By Miriam Benjamin
April 23, 2015

Drenge goes from two to three in newest LP

By Miriam Benjamin
April 17, 2015

White Men are Black Men Too? Young Fathers’ new album conveys political message

By Miriam Benjamin
April 9, 2015
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