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- MacArthur Genius Grant Awardees Include NU Professor, Chamber Ensemble Founder
The 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellows were announced Monday. Recipients include a Northwestern University history professor and the founder of International Contemporary Ensemble. [ more › ]
- Tuesday Afternoon Diversion: I’m a Belieber
Not since Marcus Gilmer was our Editor in Chief have so many screaming young ladies seen so many rainbows and unicorns. [ more › ]
- Gossip Wolf: Doomsday arrives a month early
The metal veterans in Doomsday drop their first record together in November, Dead Already releases a milestone comp, and Joan of Arc taps Dmitry Samarov for album art
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Crusty local metal five-piece Doomsday includes (count ’em!) four former members of Blake Judd’s revolving-door black-metal outfit Nachtmystium: guitarist and vocalist Jon “Necromancer” Woodring (cofounder of Usurper in 1993 and currently bassist for death-metal trio Bones), guitarist Jeff Wilson, drummer Zack Simmons, and vocalist Zion Meagher.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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