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MARGO PRICE @MissMargoPrice — That’s How Rumors Get Started #NewCountry @LomaVistaRC

The Illinois born and Nashville based Americana, outlaw country, and country-soul singer/songwriter & multi-instrumentalist MARGO PRICE has released her third studio album, the Sturgill Simpson produced “That’s How Rumors Get Started” out via Loma Vista Records.

A great example from the album is “Letting Me Down” (video shared below) that offers sweet sad dolefulness jigged into a marinade of…

Ashley McBryde; Photo by Daniel Meigs

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Apple stores, Pritzker’s playground, the Madison Square Garden Chicago Theatre, and the brand spankin’ new Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom!

Ashley McBryde, Apple Michigan Avenue

As part of Apple’s Up Next series, country singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde will perform at the Michigan Avenue store followed by a Q&A. Her debut album Girl Going Nowhere, led by its tender title and opening track and lovelorn dive bar singalong “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega”, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album this year. The minimalism of her arrangements and weary voice should make for a great performance in a more intimate setting.

Trash Talk, Aragon

Sacramento hardcore band Trash Talk is, thankfully, touring again. While they haven’t released any new music since 2016 EP Tangle, and they’ll have a shorter set due to the massive bill on the tour, their songs are short bursts of extreme energy. Hopefully they play some Eyes & Nines stuff!

New Orleans rap duo $uicideboy$ headline. L.A. hyphy group Shoreline Mafia, NYC hip hop group City Morgue, Atlanta rapper Germ, and Missoula rapper Shakewell also open.

Wild Pink; Photo by Hayden Sitomer

Ryley Walker & Wild Pink, Hungry Brain

He’s finally playing older songs again! Word on the street is that Raw Dog Ryley is bending classics like “Primrose Green”, “Summer Dress”, “The Halfwit in Me”, and “The Roundabout” to extended jams and arty breakdowns to fit along tracks from Deafman Glance. The now NYC-based prolific guitar master has no officially announced records this year, though he and local jazz drummer Charles Rumback signed to Thrill Jockey for a record that’s supposedly coming out this fall, and Walker’s curating the next Tompkins Square Imaginational Anthem volume, coming out next month.

When we interviewed Wild Pink’s John Ross last year, he mentioned he was already working on the follow-up to breakout Yolk in the Fur. In the meantime, check out 5 Songs, the EP they released earlier this year consisting of 3 remixes of Yolk songs and 2 unreleased tracks from the same sessions. “There Is A Ledger” is given a clattering tropical rhythm by Shy Layers, the project of Atlanta electronic musician JD Walsh. Dondadi, the ambient project of sometimes Wild Pink member Connor Hanwick, turns “Love Is Better” into an unrecognizable collage of chopped noise. Ross himself takes on “All Some Frenchman’s Joke”, using his Eerie Gaits moniker/ambient guitar project to expand upon the original’s awakening timbre. However, the two you’re more likely to hear tonight are the proper Wild Pink songs on there: “Coaches Who Cry” and “How’s The Tap Here”. The former sees Ross looking back to growing up in a small town with a sense of community; the driving acoustic guitar and eventual climactic synthesizer-and-fuzz dream pop nail the sense of melancholy inherent in Ross’s nostalgia. The latter is about Ross’s relationships with a person, and the purity of his relationship with his dog; musically, it would have fit on Yolk, sounding a lot like the progression of “Lake Eerie”.

The two are also playing Park Grill in Millennium Park earlier in the day, starting at 4:30 P.M.

Ali Wong, Chicago Theatre