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How Homocore Chicago propped open the gate for queer punks

by Micco Caporale June 19, 2019August 18, 2021

Nineties concert series Homocore Chicago gave today’s queer punks a running start at the dramatically different hurdles they face.

Posted inMusic

Chicago no wave celebrates itself

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil May 1, 2019August 18, 2021

The Co-Prosperity Sphere devotes a concert and exhibit to 90s Chicago no wave, and the CHIRP Record Fair returns for year 17.

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The Third Coming of the Jesus Lizard

by Kevin Warwick December 6, 2017August 18, 2021

On the eve of their latest return home, the Jesus Lizard talk about why they chose Chicago—and how they became its most beautiful noise-rock monsters.

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Time traveling with Martin Sorrondeguy of Los Crudos

by Leor Galil March 24, 2016August 18, 2021

Revisiting the old haunts of legendary 90s hardcore band Los Crudos provides a miniature history of gentrification and activism in Chicago.

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Best Outcall Soundman

by Philip Montoro June 19, 2013August 19, 2021

At a Yob show in February he turned the Flat Iron into a white-hot doom-­metal blast furnace, and at this year’s Dark Lord Day he made High on Fire’s stampeding barbarian metal sound as overwhelming outside as I’ve ever heard it indoors.

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PJ Harvey’s Astonishing Debut/Music to Get Naked By

by Bill Wyman October 8, 1992August 20, 2021

PJ Harvey: Women on the verge of total collapse

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