The past decade of Chicago hip-hop would be entirely different without Young Chicago Authors and the Harold Washington Library’s YouMedia lab. Both have served as creative hubs for local teens, and their storied weekly open mikes—YouMedia’s Lyricist Loft and YCA’s WordPlay—have given many beloved Chicago rappers their starts. In the 2020s, a new generation of […]
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Why to get to Riot Fest early
If your lunch runs late, you’ll miss some of Riot Fest’s most exciting acts—including Mongolian metal warriors the Hu, garage monsters Drakulas, and folk-pop wild card Caroline Rose.
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Cursive makes a resounding return on the dark, stark, nihilistic Vitriola
Twenty-one years after releasing their debut album, Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes, emotional posthardcore sextet Cursive resurfaced in 2018 with their first LP in six years. Vitriola (15 Passenger), which came out in October, isn’t just a collection of their catchiest and most cutting songs in a decade; it’s a callback to the sound […]
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Gossip Wolf: Remembering musician Stephanie Morris at the Hideout
Friends and colleages remember musician Stephanie Morris at the Hideout, White/Light scores a new sci-fi short film, and more.
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Show us your . . . framed Velveeta record
Cursive’s Tim Kasher showed us an album—his album, actually—made entirely of Velveeta cheese (really).
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Riot Fest: You can’t go wrong with a Ferris wheel and Gwar
This year’s Riot Fest owes its success to a Ferris wheel and Gwar
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Shows to See: Off!, Blues Control, Rebecca Gates, and more
Off!, Blues Control, Aesop Rock, and Rebecca Gates are among this weekend’s Soundboard offerings
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include Cursive, Deicide, Cloud Cult, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Cheap Time, Warpaint, and Matt Skiba.
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Do-Division Street Fest
The Night Marchers, Pelican, the Ponys, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Warpaint, and the Good Life are just a handful of the bands invading an expansive stretch of Division this Saturday and Sunday.
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include Alkaline Trio, Cursive, Vampire Weekend, Japandroids, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, and Air.
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The List: December 24-30, 2009
Critics’ Choices and other notable concerts: Robbie Fulks, Roy Hargrove, Josh Berman’s Old Idea, Fiery Furnaces, and more
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Monday-afternoon almost-spring playlist
Today’s playlist: alt-pop, gore grind, ambient hardcore, and more