You didn’t tune out at the word “composer,” did you? Assuming I’m going to talk about something that only old people or music-school grad students would like? Maybe it would help if I said that Australian-born, Berlin-based composer Anthony Pateras has collaborated with vocalist Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, that he’s played in what’s basically a piano-based grindcore duo, or that he’s in the States because he did the music for The Man Who Disappeared, a film on Antonin Artaud by Semiotext(e) founder Sylvere Lotringer that premieres in New York next week....

It was that most basic of all human interactions that brought the members of Cook County Social Club together ten years ago: lunch. The improv group’s members—Bill Cochran, Greg Hess, Brendan Jennings, Mark Raterman, and Tim Robinson—took classes at iO together, and they all worked downtown, so would meet for lunch every day. Eventually they realized their absurdist comedic perspectives fit together like cheese between two slices of bread. They’ve since brought CCSC to New York and LA as they’ve pursued their individual careers as actors and writers, but this weekend they’ll return to iO to celebrate the group’s tenth anniversary....

Guilty of Everything It’s always interesting to see what happens to hardcore kids when they grow out of being young and angry. My current musical obsession is one of these cases: Nothing is a postrock-influenced shoegaze-revival project fronted by Dominic Palermo, once known as “Nicky Money,” former front man for the hyperaggressive mid-aughts Philly hardcore band Horror Show. The brand-new Guilty of Everything by Nothing comes out this Tuesday, March 4, on Relapse, and shares absolutely no sonic similarities with Palermo’s hardcore past....

Michigan-born, Atlanta-based singer and songwriter Curtis Harding, 35, has been bouncing around under the radar of the music biz for a number of years, working as a backup singer for CeeLo Green (and even writing some tunes for him), but in 2014 he’s kicked things into high gear. Earlier this year he introduced his Night Sun project, a kind of garage-rock/soul hybrid with Cole Alexander of the Black Lips. And in May he released his debut, Soul Power (Burger), a sprawling collection of original tunes that reflects a broad, nonhierarchical aesthetic—although his voice privileges soul and gospel....

Noise In June, loud-as-hell Japanese everything-metal band Boris will be releasing Noise, their 24th studio album. Over the course of the past 22 years, this heavyweight trio has experimented with—and mastered—numerous forms of metal, ranging from doom to thrash to glam. Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Quicksilver,” a seven-minute banger from the forthcoming LP, and it sounds like the band is working with a sort of west-coast melodic hardcore for this one....

Brooklyn-based Slothrust play up that they’re a mix of blues-inflected grunge and punk. But while that’s kind of true, front woman Leah Wellbaum can definitely lay down a hearty guitar lick or two, and if today’s 12 O’Clock Track, “Crockpot,” is any indication, Slothrust is most decidedly a grunge band. It’s Wellbaum’s husky vocals, in which she effectively sounds completely disenchanted between curses, it’s the heavy and raw chorus, and it’s the brooding—oh, the brooding....

Last April, one day after the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, Tamara Briggs’s aunt and uncle fled their hometown, Jisr al-Shughur, 62 miles northwest. Two days later a bomb took out the building next door, which in turn flattened their house. “They’re in Aleppo now,” Briggs says. Over 26 years Exotic Bakeries & Syrian Cuisine, evolved into a kind of full-service deli—something that doesn’t actually exist in Syria. It’s also been the sole proprietor of Syrian food in Ann Arbor, and one of the very few in the Detroit metropolitan area....

Four years ago, alt-country legends Freakwater crossed streams with postpunk pomo-folk group the Mekons and gave rise to a hybrid beast: the Freakons, a project that’s brought out some of the best in both bands at its rare live performances. Now the group is back, and with a particular purpose. Concurrently with these two sold-out shows, the Freakons are recording an album of traditional songs about an industry that links the English Midlands, the Welsh valleys, and the “dark and bloody ground” of Appalachia: coal mining....

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May 22 was the official centennial of the birth of the brilliant bandleader, composer, and keyboardist Sun Ra, but I’m thankful that the entire year is being used to celebrate his memory and particular brand of visionary genius. Chicago, where Herman Poole Blount (a native of Birmingham, Alabama) assembled the earliest versions of his Arkestra in 1953, has gotten in on the act in numerous ways, but some of the most exciting events are happening this week....

A couple of Chicago actors are on the verge of having their pilot made into a Web series by NBC. Bobby & Iza, written by Avery Lee and Bobby Richards, is a finalist in the network’s Comedy Playground, a national talent search for “original comedy minds.” Two winners, chosen by an NBC advisory board that includes Aziz Ansari, Jason Bateman, Mindy Kaling, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Craig Robinson, and Adam Scott, will be broadcast on NBC....

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Starting at 10 PM, Big Chicks hosts Formerly Known As, a dance party for “trans men and trans women, queers and allies, movers and/or shakers,” as FKA’s Facebook page puts it. For those of us who prefer to be on the couch watching reruns of 30 Rock at 10 PM, that may not seem like the most auspicious start time. But arriving early has its benefits: you can order a drink without waiting in line, stake out a table in the (relatively) quiet back room, and people-watch while the dance floor fills....

On Sunday, the Writer’s Bench 2018 Battle for the Eagle was held at the Illinois Centennial Memorial Column in Logan Square. The events included a live graffiti battle, a freestyle dance battle, a DJ scratch battle, a B-boy cypher, and a breaking battle. The event went on for the entire night. The dancers performed tirelessly, and the crowd never lost its energy. The DJ kept playing even after the crowning of the last champions with a set of salsa music that kept folks going into the night....

I’ve stumbled upon lots of interesting records flipping through bins in the past year, but few made as immediate an impression as Bruce and Vlady’s The Reality. For one thing, the cover is arresting—I don’t have to tell you why, since you’re looking at it. The LP came out in Sweden in 1970, and Spanish label Vampisoul reissued it in October. The new version replicates the original jacket right down to the description on the back cover, which is written in Swedish....

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Dan Pittatsis, 70, Uber and Lyft driver. Once I picked up a woman at the Radisson Blu downtown. She was stunning, and I’m not easily knocked over by that. She looked like a retired supermodel. She had this faint smell of vanilla on her. She goes, “Do you have any time today?...

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Since tepache tastes like beer, Compton began brainstorming what foods go well with beer; wings and Asian food came to mind. He settled on hot wings with a tepache glaze, served with fried rice cooked in tepache. He considered using the tepache as a marinade, but worried that the bromaline in pineapple—a compound that’s a natural meat tenderizer—would make the meat mushy. Fried rice 1 C long-grain white rice 2 C tepache 4 tsp grape-seed oil 2 oz chorizo verde or similar sausage 1/2 C broccoli florets 1/4 C fresh pineapple 1 T pickled ginger, minced 1 clove garlic, minced 1 scallion, thinly sliced 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce Salt and black pepper to taste...