Chicago artist Nesbitt “Nez” Wesonga broke out in the early 2010s with hip-hop production crew Nez & Rio. By 2014, they’d helped make a bona fide hit album: Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron features three Nez & Rio tracks, including the triumphant single “Man of the Year.” Q had previously enlisted the duo for 2012’s “Druggys Wit […]
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Life was just a party: Prince’s 1999 and Chicago house music
Prince could hardly have avoided influencing Chicago house, whose earliest, most ardent fans were queer Black and Brown kids.
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The North Coast Music Festival returns for round three
Four stages and a “silent disco” host loads of dance music, hip-hop, jam bands, and indie rock at the North Coast Music Festival
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The List, September 10-16, 2009
Critics’ Choices and other notable concerts: the Cave Singers, DJ Sega, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Moonshine Willy, Felix da Housecat, and more
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Diddy and Felix: Lectro Black
Over the weekend I tore through Thomas Pynchon’s new Inherent Vice, which is excellent and, like all good Pynchon books, frequently hilarious. Given its late-60s LA-hippie setting and Pynchon’s affection for rock music, it’s not surprising to encounter talk throughout about acts like the Trashmen, Thunderclap Newman, and Wild Man Fischer. Less expected—and thus more […]