Hollering along with Bad Noids’ punk rock is more fun than arguing with COVID deniers—and it’ll probably do more good.
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A new record store somehow opens in Evanston
A new record store somehow opens in Evanston, Spektral Quartet host an online Q&A with composer Du Yun, and more.
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A Juneteenth livestream for Black lives on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago designer Julie Yost, the programming director at Rebuild Foundation.
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On Rebirth by Blasphemy, Cleveland metal miscreants Midnight show they still don’t give a fuck
Midnight are pretty much the nightmare that heartland parents feared during the satanic panic of the 1980s, when metal bands’ imagined lyrical (and moral) transgressions meant they were considered about as family friendly as murderers. Midnight’s music is nihilism with a beat, rudderless and apolitical; they’re as likely to cover 70s midwest punks the Pagans […]
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Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent
Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
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Galcher Lustwerk merges rap and deep house in his spellbinding songs
Cleveland native Galcher Lustwerk (who prefers to leave his birth name unknown) raps and produces deep-house instrumentals, but you can’t properly describe his music as some combination of house and hip-hop (and he absolutely does not make “hip-house”). Now based in New York, Lustwerk primarily appears interested in spellbinding grooves, in which he siphons trancelike […]
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The Hyperloop: The future of travel or a fanciful space-age hamster tube?
Cleveland just inked a $1.2M deal to study vacuum-tube transportation to Chicago, but critics say the idea is just a pipe dream.
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Blues drummer Sam Lay has made five careers’ worth of music
Sharp-dressed drummer Sam Lay has played with Dylan and Howlin’ Wolf, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
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Chicago’s population decline continues for the third year in a row, and other news
Also, the Obama library spurs residential real estate development in South Shore.
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In Jaguar Ride, Brian McMahon of the Electric Eels makes the band’s story as defiantly unmarketable as their music
On Saturday at Bric-a-Brac, Brian McMahon of Cleveland protopunk legends the Electric Eels signs copies of the band memoir Jaguar Ride.
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Scenes from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
Photos of the good, bad, and ugly of the RNC
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Trump’s convention is scary, but unlikely to match the chaos of Chicago in 1968
Are we poised to relive the dark days of ’68 all over again?
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Testing finds lead in the water at 20 more Chicago public schools, and other news
Also, Richard Roeper responds to his Ghostbusters haters.
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Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows
A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week’s theater and performance best bets.
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The hills are alive with the noise of Ortmann
Plus: Varsity tease their new garage-pop tape, and friends say farewell to beloved sound engineer John Emerson.