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Occidental Brothers Chicago Reader cover 491x500 Chicago Reader cover: Occidental Brothers

I shot the lovely and talented Samba Mapangala and Nathaniel Braddock of the fabulous Occidental Brothers Dance Band International for the cover of this week’s Chicago Reader. In addition I shot Mission of Burma and Orquestra Contemporanea de Olinda for the Photo Pit page in the same issue.

Chicago cornetist Josh Berman‘s got a new record out on Delmark, and he’s playing two record release shows: one tonight at the Hideout, and another this Sunday, June 7th at the Hungry Brain. I photographed Berman in front of and inside the venerable Old Town Ale House for today’s Reader.

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josh berman old town ale house 500x333 Josh Berman: Old Idea record release

I photographed electronic musician Joe Hahn, stage name Protman, for this week’s Reader. Protman finds old video game controllers, including joysticks, and turns them into MIDI controllers.

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It’s for the issue dated tomorrow, but it appeared online today, the same day that, coincidentally, Boing Boing posted this, a video clip featuring a 15 times larger than life, working, Atari joystick: