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.
- Record reviews roundup redux: Passion Pit and Antibalas
Continuing with our effort to catch up on noteworthy releases from recent weeks, we have two strong dispatches from alien lands—one from a singer and songwriter’s dark night of the soul, the other from a band dedicated to putting a Brooklyn spin on the sounds of Nigeria.Passion Pit debut
- One For The Road: Happy Birthday, Tex Williams
Tex Williams, singer of the Rockabilly classic “Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette” was born in Illinois on this date in 1917. [ more › ]
- Thursday Afternoon Diversion: Reading is Fundamental
This guy’s use of lexiphanicism may yield yet a second video illustrating discourse on the word buffalo.
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