Our (fairly) regular roundup of Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers. The Vortis Diaries: Rahm’s rehearsal space The news that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in an effort to better understand the Chicago music scene, had rented a rehearsal space and was […]
Our (fairly) regular roundup of Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers. Critical of Congress security, headliner brings his own Alderman Proco Joe Moreno and disgruntled neighbors aren’t the only ones questioning the quality of security at the Congress Theater: Electronic […]
Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers. Artist on Artist: Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell talks to the Eternals’ Wayne Montana Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell talks to the Eternals’ Wayne Montana Few bands dominated the R&B […]
Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers. Three Beats: A prepared-piano preview of A John Cage Festival A preview of A John Cage Festival, a posthumous party for Sandy Bull, and a birthday bash for Underground Communique by Peter Margasak, Bill […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. City to Congress Theater: Clean up your act! Though it can be admired for filling a void in the local music scene by booking underground sounds and hosting independent concerts that might not otherwise find a home in Chicago, […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. SXSW 2012 Day Four: Done! Givers, Nneka, Kimbra, Ed Sheeran and more The fourth and final night of SXSW 2012 was not off to the greatest musical start. The first act I caught was Kat Graham. Known mostly for […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. SXSW Day Two: Springsteen’s keynote address AUSTIN, TX—We’ve gotta give the Boss this: Though his much-anticipated keynote address at SXSW 2012 was rife with as much mawkish sentimentality as his music at its absolute hokiest, the man alone at […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. Artist on Artist: Mark Perro of the Men talks to Raw Nerve’s Ryan Lowry Mark Perro of the Men talks DIY, country music, and the impossibility of plagiarism in punkSince debuting with the self-released 2009 EP We Are the […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. Local release roundup: cerebral grooves from beat maker Radius Local release roundup: cerebral grooves from beat maker Radius, enlightened bangers from BBU, and more by Miles Raymer Radius Sleeping Wide Awake…[ Read more][ Subscribe to the comments on this […]
A couple notes from the web this week: Chicago’s Cultural Affair woes Jim DeRogaitis has updated his Pop N Stuff blog over at WBEZ with more on the internal downsizing/consolidation drama going down at the Chicago Office of Tourism. The results are not good for those of us who appreciate the fine work the team over […]
Culturally inclined Chicago music patrons can breathe a sigh of relief; the schedule for the Lunchbreak Music Series at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion is out, and though the fall/winter reorganization at the CCC was cause for a certain amount of concern, this news coupled with New Music Mondays schedule all but confirms a smooth transition of duties from the former Department of Cultural Affairs to the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture.
Ils sont de retour! (Translation: They’re baaaaaack!)
As you may have noticed from the Facebook posts, Resident Advisor event pages, and the mini-site on Mutek.org, the Avant_MUTEK experience is returning to Chicago this April…
Since we typically have cobwebs and fog from NYE strolling about our brains for a couple weeks after ringing the new year in, we figured several things to be probable truths:
1. There are others who would likely be in the same blurry position.
2. It would be quite nice to get said others together for a quaint and cozy night of warm beats and libations in a not-so-clubby-or-basementy environment.
When Rajko Müller’s BEAU MOT PLAGE (Playhouse) was released to an unsuspecting public in 1998 under his ISOLÉE moniker, little did he know that it would cement him in electronic music lore amongst house and techno connoisseurs worldwide…
Meioticast002 is finally available for your aural consumption, and we know that you’ve been sitting on the edge of your seats in anticipation since 001’s release earlier in the year…
Since the early nineties, Jochem Paap (the Rotterdam artist owes the nickname Speedy J to his DJ skills) has been unanimously considered to be one of the first techno producers to come from the Benelux. Together with people like Laurent Garnier, Aphex Twin and Richie Hawtin he helped raising the genre just after it had escaped the Detroit delivery room. He comes to Chicago for one of three exclusive North American dates…
Our friends at NO AFFILIATION are bringing back Dandyjack and Sonja Moonear for a return JUNCTION SM performance. If you were there for the last one they put together, you know that this one will be rockin as well!
From our friends at ABSTRACT SCIENCE, the QUADRATIC peeps will be rocking the SUBFIX MASSIVE event up on the Metro stage… gonna be a heater!
Meiotic, In Your System, and Peoplemuver present the second in the EXPOSITION music and art series featuring the highly acclaimed experimental electronic minimalist composer/producer THOMAS BRINKMANN.
Alongside Mike Ink, the Basic Channel collective and Pole, Thomas Brinkmann is one of the leaders in the ongoing German-born study of isolationist dub-inspired techno.
In celebration of the Chicago arrival of Sonar – Barcelona, Spain’s highly esteemed festival for Advanced Music and Multimedia Art – three longtime Chicago staples (Abstract Science, In Your System and Meiotic) invite you to the SECRET SON@R gallery presentation and musical exposition.
This late breaking exclusive features none other than the world renown techno juggernaut ROMAN FLÜGEL.