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. Music Video Of The Day: Sleigh Bells Feat. Tink ‘That Did It’ Chicago rapper/singer Tink is having a banner year. [ more › ] Keeping The Beat Alive: An […]
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. Downwrite Brings Holiday Concert to the Metro The holiday season is definitely a time with packed schedules and running from place to place in a hectic frenzy, but amidst […]
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. Music Video Of The Day: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories ‘Do You Sleep?’ Lisa Loeb plays City Winery tonight. [ more › ] Lincoln Hall Drifted Off With Allah-Las […]
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. Richard Kaufman Discusses the CSO’s Pixar in Concert The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is known for many elements that comprise its exceptional caliber, from its renowned group of musicians, to […]
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. Scour Chicago for a Chance to Win Bears Tickets This post is brought to you by State Farm®. [ more › ] Music Video Of The Day: The Blind […]
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. DJ Rashad is gone, but his influence on footwork lives on The Chicago producer died before the music he helped define could break out, but he’s still inspiring his […]
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. Interview: The Dirty Dirty Dollars Interesting startup story: The Dirty Dirty Dollars began as a Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band. Finding that they enjoyed bringing an energized, high-octane rock […]
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. Stephin Merritt Coming to Chicago for a Rare Solo Performance Stephin Merritt’s range as a musical artist knows no bounds. Merritt may be best known for his extensive catalog […]
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. Contemplating suicide in the opera house men’s room At 71, American-born Scott Walker, long a cult hero to the Brits, has stretched the meaning of that phrase further and […]
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. Wednesday Afternoon Diversion: First Family Get Down The first family has some sweet moves. Turnip for what? [ more › ] The Second City And Hubbard Street Dance Show […]
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. Lampo says, "Welcome to (Rene) Hell" Jeff Witscher (Rene Hell) This Saturday (October 11), experimental music organization Lampo begin their Fall 2014 season with the first of four free […]
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. Eat to the Beat: ‘The Banana Album’ and the meal of a lifetime “Modern music begins with the Velvets,” the great rock critic Lester Bangs wrote when the […]
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. Remember the Rentals? Most people who remember the Rentals—and it’s probably a small group that remembers them at all—know the project as one of many alternative-era one-hit-wonders, putting its […]
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: Who’s in Elia Einhorn’s Fashion Brigade? A new project from Scotland Yard Gospel Choir’s Elia Einhorn, new bands with folks from Bloodiest and Fake Limbs, and more […]
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. Our guide to Riot Fest 2014 The Reader‘s Riot Fest guide: Five slices through Chicago’s biggest loaf of punk and punk by-products After three months of earth-shaking EDM extravaganzas, […]
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. This weekend: The 18th annual Hideout Block Party As it prepares to mark the end of its second decade, the Hideout Block Party is, by the standards of […]
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. ‘The November Man’ Cometh After a summer of blockbusters the Labor Day holiday is often the turn of the film watching season into deeper fare, and one movie in […]
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. Music Video Of The Day: Action Bronson ‘Easy Rider’ Action Bronson dropped a new single and video today. Catch him at the end of the month at North Coast […]
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. The Seven Deadly Sins Blurs Line Between Fact, Fiction Angela Vela’s storytelling series welcomes both fiction and non-fiction pieces, but not knowing what was real and what was fake […]
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. Photos/Review: Lil Bub with David Yow @ Cabaret Metro 8-6-14 For those who may not know, Lil Bub is a very special female cat from outer space who has […]