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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Post Office Winter share the world of fun in Chicago’s teen DIY scene
Chicago DIY rock duo Post Office Winter take an audible joy in playing scruffy, comfortable indie rock whose charming shabbiness feels like an accident they wouldn’t have any other way. The band’s founders, Johnston and Huffman (Jones College Prep juniors who prefer to go by their last names), belong to a local teenage DIY rock […]
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Jason Molina’s long dark blues
Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. front man Jason Molina produced a prodigious catalog of stark and heartbreaking music. Then he disappeared.
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Jason Molina of Magnolia Electric Company and Songs: Ohia dead at 39
Jason Molina, leader of Magnolia Electric Company, died on Saturday in Indianapolis at age 39.
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Reliving Fear’s SNL riot
The full version of SNL‘s most notorious musical guests is finally easily viewable online.
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Indie Rock’s Don Rickleses Release Their Hello Dummy!
A double album of the comedy stylings of Shellac from Chunklet’s Henry Owings
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Rarities for Charity
Henry Owings auctions off records to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
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Deeper Into the Chris Thomson Tapes: Getaway Car
Discovering early-90s D.C. punk supergroup Getaway Car
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“The Institutional Memory for Punk Rock”
Sharp Darts on the growing tape archive of Chunklet’s Henry Owings
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The Keeper of the Cassettes
What to do with those old practice tapes? Chunklet’s Henry Owings is digitizing and posting rarities from the 80s and 90s.
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Thank God for Cheap Hard Drives
Highly recommended set-length MP3s of Ron Hardy and Lungfish for free download