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Home » Chunklet

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Lifeguard
Posted inMusic

Lifeguard grow into their next underground rock vision on Crowd Can Talk

by Leor Galil August 2, 2022August 1, 2022

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 […]

Fuzzy distorted image of teen duo Post Office Winter
Posted inMusic

Post Office Winter share the world of fun in Chicago’s teen DIY scene

by Leor Galil February 17, 2022February 25, 2022

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 […]

Jason Molina performs at the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana, circa 2000.
Posted inMusic

Jason Molina’s long dark blues

by Max Blau October 1, 2014August 18, 2021

Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. front man Jason Molina produced a prodigious catalog of stark and heartbreaking music. Then he disappeared.

Posted inBlogs

Jason Molina of Magnolia Electric Company and Songs: Ohia dead at 39

by Peter Margasak March 18, 2013August 19, 2021

Jason Molina, leader of Magnolia Electric Company, died on Saturday in Indianapolis at age 39.

Posted inBlogs

Reliving Fear’s SNL riot

by Miles Raymer January 28, 2013August 18, 2021

The full version of SNL‘s most notorious musical guests is finally easily viewable online.

Posted inBlogs

SXSW day one: Oh the insanity

by Miles Raymer March 14, 2012August 19, 2021

The festival is bigger and crazier than ever before.

Posted inBlogs

Indie Rock’s Don Rickleses Release Their Hello Dummy!

by Miles Raymer June 29, 2010August 19, 2021

A double album of the comedy stylings of Shellac from Chunklet’s Henry Owings

Posted inBlogs

Rarities for Charity

by Miles Raymer January 18, 2010August 19, 2021

Henry Owings auctions off records to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

Posted inBlogs

Deeper Into the Chris Thomson Tapes: Getaway Car

by Miles Raymer January 6, 2010August 19, 2021

Discovering early-90s D.C. punk supergroup Getaway Car

Posted inBlogs

“The Institutional Memory for Punk Rock”

by Miles Raymer December 24, 2009August 19, 2021

Sharp Darts on the growing tape archive of Chunklet’s Henry Owings

Henry Owings
Posted inMusic

The Keeper of the Cassettes

by Miles Raymer December 24, 2009August 19, 2021

What to do with those old practice tapes? Chunklet’s Henry Owings is digitizing and posting rarities from the 80s and 90s.

Posted inBlogs

Thank God for Cheap Hard Drives

by Miles Raymer December 16, 2009August 19, 2021

Highly recommended set-length MP3s of Ron Hardy and Lungfish for free download

Posted inBlogs

Kidzowar

by Miles Raymer September 23, 2009August 19, 2021

Manowar do it for the children.

Posted inBlogs

Get some snark at Quimby’s

by Miles Raymer October 24, 2008August 19, 2021

Chunklet’s Henry Owings comes to town Saturday.

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