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.
- Bassnectar pumps it up
Though, it should be needless to say, electronic dance music never has gone away, forever mutating and evolving in sometimes rewarding and sometimes redundant ways, these sounds haven’t been such a focus for the corporate music industry since the late ’90s, when they bubbled up from raves to draw th
- Gossip Wolf: Doom for pole dancers
Lord licenses its doom metal to a pole dancer, and the Whistler launches the covers series Playing Favorites
by Jessica Hopper and Leor Galil
Chicago doom-metal band Lord is getting into the movie business, sort of. “Rise Into the Stars,” an epic cut from the group’s 2011 self-titled debut, will appear on the soundtrack to Chicago Rot, a locally produced indie horror flick that’s in the works.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] - Artist on Artist: Chris Reifert of Autopsy talks to Scott Carroll of Cianide
Chris Reifert of Autopsy talks to Scott Carroll of CianideBay Area death-metal band Autopsy, founded in 1987 and split in 1995, have been reunited full-time since 2010, and their 2011 LP Macabre Eternal landed on plenty of year-end best-of lists. Influential but hardly famous in the 90s, Autopsy are now revered as pillars of “old-school” death metal, alongside the likes of Possessed, Terrorizer, Obituary, and Chicago’s own Master.…
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