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 inviting musicians to drop by and chat after his band had jammed first zipped around the Net early last week; my friend and WBEZ colleague Tony Sarabia forwarded the mess
- Album review: Willis Earl Beal, ‘Acousmatic Sorcery’
Chicago singer, songwriter, rapper, home-recording enthusiast and man of mystery Willis Earl Beal has emerged to display raw talent, potential and most of all, endearing eccentricity.
- Pitchfork 2012 lineup complete
New additions include Wild Flag, Cults and Youth Lagoon.
- The Secret History of Chicago Music: Tampa Red
Influential slide guitarist Tampa Red recorded 335 sides of hokum and jump blues between 1928 and ’53 but died largely forgotten in ’81
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Artist on Artist: Mary Timony of Wild Flag talks to Chris Thomson of Coffin Pricks
Mary Timony of Wild Flag talks to Chris Thomson of Coffin PricksWild Flag is made up of some of the most respected punk-slash-indie musicians of the 90s, with a lineup that’s sort of a late-period riot-grrrl who’s who: Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney), Janet Weiss (Quasi, Sleater-Kinney), Mary Timony (Autoclave, Helium), and Rebecca Cole (the Minders). In Wild Flag they take the ethos and attitude of their previous bands and infuse it with an irresistible pop sensibility.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]- Gossip Wolf: Sisters doin’ it for themselves
The latest on the Sea and Cake, Zapruder Point, David Daniell & Doug McCombs, and the fledgling Girl Group
by Jessica Hopper and Leor Galil
An ambitious new local cover band called Girl Group—which will play songs by 60s girl groups, natch—has 19 members so far, and it’s still growing. “I love 60s girl groups, but I’ve never heard of 60s girl groups that had all the instrumentalists be women,” says lead singer and main schemer Shana East.…[ Read more][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Thank you Based God
The weird world of Internet-famous Bay Area rapper Lil B
by Miles Raymer
In 2006 a teenage Bay Area rap group called the Pack released the single “Vans.” Essentially a four-minute free advertisement for the shoe company of the same name, it combines an infectious, minimalist beat and a confusing hook: “Got my Vans on, but they look like sneakers.”…[ Read more][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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