A couple weeks before Lifeguard played Horsegirl’s record-release show at Thalia Hall in June, I ran into drummer Isaac Lowenstein and bassist Asher Case while walking through the Logan Square Farmers Market with my family. My parents asked what kind of music they make, and we all had a little trouble coming up with a […]
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Lykanthea’s Dawn Birds welcome the autumnal equinox with song
Update: Due to a stormy forecast for Tuesday morning, the performance of Lykanthea’s Dawn Birds has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 22, at 6:30 AM. Lakshmi Ramgopal, who makes music as Lykanthea, moved to the east coast in 2016 (she’s an assistant professor of history at Columbia University in New York), but she still considers Chicago […]
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Born Yesterday Records had a better 2020 than you
Chicago underground rock stayed great through a terrible year, and Born Yesterday released some of the best.
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Chicago indie rockers Cafe Racer meld psych, shoegaze, and Krautrock to summon hypnotic bliss
Psychedelic Chicago indie rockers Cafe Racer emerged from a young north-side scene obsessed with garage; in fact, guitarist-vocalist Michael Santana previously played rugged, bratty garage pop in the three-piece Grosse Pointe. When he burned out on that band’s sound in 2015, he started working with guitarist-vocalist Adam Schubert—a prolific musician with a lo-fi solo project […]
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Chicago postpunk four-piece Stuck deliver an uppercut with Change Is Bad
Workaholic Chicago rocker and audio engineer Greg Obis has suffered through a challenging five years. Both of his parents died (his mother in 2015, his father in 2018), and his ferocious but underrated punk band Yeesh broke up in 2017. That same year, Obis spent time on the road playing bass in indie-rock outfit Clearance; […]
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Born Yesterday, The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, and seven more new theater and comedy reviews
A classic from Remy Bumppo and a revival from the House Theatre of Chicago are among this week’s best bets.
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Money changes everything in Andrew Bujalski’s Results
But a bigger budget doesn’t diminish the director’s talent.
