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International Anthem is a Chicago-born recording company that produces and promotes progressive media. Founded in 2014, the IARC label has grown to embody a global community of like-minded artists, m...

Macie Stewart’s When the Distance is Blue is a perfectly titled, surreal and expansive record. Her International Anthem debut is not a question or an answer ,but a murmuring thought, both perplexing...

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Macie Stewart’s ‘When the Distance is Blue’ feels even more cerebral than her debut, more improvisational, and more rooted in landscape. But for all the meditativeness and all the improvisation, there...

Pianist, composer and improviser Macie Stewart's new album WHEN THE DISTANCE IS BLUE has been released by International Anthem Recording Co.

One encampment resident cried while her yurt was reduced to a pile, saying, "I don't know why they would do that. We're homeless, we don't have anywhere to go." The city said the yurts were illegal…

I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...