This week’s featured gig poster was created by Justin Gray, an illustrator and designer from New Jersey.
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Spelunking in the Reader of 1971
The music ads in the Reader’s very first issues add context—and curiosities—that the stories alone can’t provide.
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Godzilla can’t stop the music on the (fantasy) gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist Jon Natzke.
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Experimental musician Daniel Wyche celebrates his 40th birthday with a show at Elastic Arts
Composer and guitarist Daniel Wyche has long been a vital figure in Chicago’s experimental music scene, most notably at Elastic Arts, where he’s curated, produced, and organized concerts since 2013. His upcoming show at the Logan Square venue, where he’ll perform alongside frequent collaborator and fellow guitarist Mark Shippy, celebrates his 40th birthday and his […]
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Xtal Fsck play a noise show that you can put your face in
Xtal Fsck play a noise show that you can put your face in, Babes Only teams up with Chicago Votes for a smooth preelection party, and more.
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Mike Love and the Dizz on the rise and fall of WGCI’s Bad Boy Radio and the birth of the Birthday Line
Mike Love and the Dizz launched Bad Boy Radio on WGCI in 1997, and their show’s decade-long run created cultural touchstones that still bring black Chicagoans together.
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Dan Whitaker & the Shinebenders work hard for hard-working country fans
Dan Whitaker & the Shinebenders work hard for hard-working country fans, Myth Fest debuts with an ambitious bill of international electronic music, and more.
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Listen to ‘Birthday,’ dreamy shoegaze pop from Bay Area trio Night School
A brand new Whirr offshoot, and this is their debut song.
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12 O’Clock Track: The video premiere of Netherfriends’ melancholic psych number, ‘Birthday’
We’ve got the exclusive premiere of the fourth part of Netherfriends’ video project—it’s a music video for one of the many great songs off the recent P3ACE.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Dive” in honor of Kurt’s birthday
Kurt Cobain would have been 47 yesterday. Let’s listen to Nirvana.
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Holy crap Kool Moe Dee is 50
Give the hip-hop icon some of the love he deserves on his special day
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Six short plays expose private lives to public places
The chief advantage to staging a play in a nontheatrical public place—a restaurant, a parking garage, in front of a urinal trough at Wrigley Field—is the place’s ready-made sense of atmosphere. To state the obvious, directors, designers, and actors don’t have to create the illusion of being at a restaurant if they’re actually, you know, […]
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Free Salon Add-ons at Halo
Halo [for Men] offers free birthday-month goodies with the purchase of salon or spa service.
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Bloodshot Records celebrates 15 years
The Hideout‘s annual block party has rapidly become one of the most anticipated music events on Chicago’s summer calendar, but this year it’s scaling back dramatically. In fact they’re not even calling it a block party. On Saturday, September 12, the club will help the local Bloodshot label—long a close collaborator with the Hideout—celebrate its […]