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Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Tracks of the Week 15.04.23

Tracks of the Week
From hyper-literate Oak Park the former National Youth Poet Laureate and fledgling songwriter Kara Jackson holds folk and country music in her thrall, cast through a captivating blend of brusque imagery, dolorous tones, and wayfaring melodies. Spurred by the death of her best friend and nourished by a small group of Chicago collaborators, including KAINA, Nnamdï, and Sen Morimoto,...

Tracks of the Week 01.04.23

Tracks of the Week
Singing through a ring modulator offset by the distortions and amplifications of the surrounding band, which drew upon an unconventional background in aspects of Dixieland jazz, Indian classical ragas, John Cage, and Karlheinz Stockhausen while earning equal renown for the left-wing political content of their music, as the frontwoman of The United States of America the vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz...