Chicago indie rockers Ratboys recently released their best album yet, and though they can’t tour, they’re finding ways to stay connected to their fans.
Tag: Dowsing
Posted inMusic
Drone artist Nicholas Szczepanik returns with a new surname and a new project
Drone artist Nicholas Szczepanik returns with a new surname and a new project, underground emo supergroup What Gives finally release an album, and more.
Posted inBlogs
Punk Talks works to change the conversation about musicians and mental health
Social worker Sheridan Allen and her organization Punk Talks hold a fund-raising concert in Chicago this month to help connect DIY musicians with mental-health care.
Posted inBlogs
A grizzly floats by on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by Barcelona-based artist Xavi Forne.
Posted inBlogs
Empire! Empire! front man Keith Latinen talks about his band’s forthcoming album, emo, and graphic novels
Before Michigan emo outfit Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) play Chicago tomorrow night read this lengthy Q&A with front man Keith Latinen—he talks about poetry, Michigan, and, yes, “emo revival.”
Posted inBlogs
Gig poster of the week: Spraynard on a dumpster
This week’s gig poster was designed by local printer Chris Paxton.
Posted inMusic
Gossip Wolf: BLVD books its first CNCRT
Gossip Wolf: BLVD books its first CNCRT, Dowsing shakes up its roster, rapper Milo moves to town, and more.
Posted inMusic
Sunday: Eight Riot Fest acts to see
Day three of Riot Fest features AFI, Suicidal Tendencies, Pixies, and some band called the Replacements.
Posted inMusic
Midwestern emo catches its second wind
Midwestern underground emo is coming back—and it’s turning up overseas and on the charts.
Posted inBlogs
Riot Fest adds local emo three-piece Pet Symmetry to its lineup
The Pixies and Joan Jett recently jumped on the bill for the three-day punk blowout, but one Reader writer is more excited to see a newish local underground emo band at the bottom of the lineup.
Posted inMusic
Three Beats: Jazz great Eddie Johnson gets a posthumous CD release; experimental duo Cleared celebrates the cassette; Rockford emo band Joie de Vivre says au revoir
A posthumous CD release for the great Eddie Johnson Tenor saxophonist Eddie Johnson, who died last year on April 7 at age 89, was one of Chicago’s greatest jazz musicians, a pure embodiment of the classic swing he’d grown up playing. He only made two albums under his own name, and the better of the […]