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. Critical of Congress security, headliner brings his own Alderman Proco Joe Moreno and disgruntled neighbors aren’t the only ones questioning the quality of security at the Congress Theater: Electronic […]
Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers. Artist on Artist: Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell talks to the Eternals’ Wayne Montana Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell talks to the Eternals’ Wayne Montana Few bands dominated the R&B […]
Music & Arts related news from Chicago-based web media, featuring thoughts and insight from some of the city’s most dedicated writers. Three Beats: A prepared-piano preview of A John Cage Festival A preview of A John Cage Festival, a posthumous party for Sandy Bull, and a birthday bash for Underground Communique by Peter Margasak, Bill […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. City to Congress Theater: Clean up your act! Though it can be admired for filling a void in the local music scene by booking underground sounds and hosting independent concerts that might not otherwise find a home in Chicago, […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. SXSW 2012 Day Four: Done! Givers, Nneka, Kimbra, Ed Sheeran and more The fourth and final night of SXSW 2012 was not off to the greatest musical start. The first act I caught was Kat Graham. Known mostly for […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. SXSW Day Two: Springsteen’s keynote address AUSTIN, TX—We’ve gotta give the Boss this: Though his much-anticipated keynote address at SXSW 2012 was rife with as much mawkish sentimentality as his music at its absolute hokiest, the man alone at […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. Artist on Artist: Mark Perro of the Men talks to Raw Nerve’s Ryan Lowry Mark Perro of the Men talks DIY, country music, and the impossibility of plagiarism in punkSince debuting with the self-released 2009 EP We Are the […]
Music & Arts news from Chicago-based web media, featuring some of the city’s most insightful writers. Local release roundup: cerebral grooves from beat maker Radius Local release roundup: cerebral grooves from beat maker Radius, enlightened bangers from BBU, and more by Miles Raymer Radius Sleeping Wide Awake…[ Read more][ Subscribe to the comments on this […]