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.
- Gossip Wolf: The Pows Wow
A retrospective LP from defunct punks the Pows and new music from Mister Lies and Fake Limbs
by Jessica Hopper and Leor Galil
There are so many awesome Record Store Day releases this year that this Wolf will probably go broke buying all the good stuff. At the top of Gossip Wolf’s list is Permanent Records’ latest, a retrospective LP from the Pows called Once With Snot & Blood.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Global vs. local, North African edition
The Touré-Raichel Collective vs. Music From Saharan Cellphones: foreigners make better music when they aren’t making it for you
by Bill Meyer
Recordings from the North African desert and the Sahel, which borders it to the south, have been a staple of the world-music marketplace ever since Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré released his eighth, self-titled album 24 years ago on World Circuit. With its fingerpicked guitar figures, which recall American country blues, Ali Farka Touré resonated with audiences raised on rock, even though its rhythms and lyrics are rooted in Africa.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - City releases Lollapalooza contract
The Chicago Park District this afternoon finally released its new 10-year and possibly eternal contract with the massive Lollapalooza Music Festival to this reporter and others who’d filed Freedom of Information Act requests.All of its pluses (primarily added income for city, county and state govern
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