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This Week in Reader Music
The big news in this week’s music coverage: the Reader has an exclusive clip of a long-lost Jackson Five track that also happens to be Michael’s first professional recording.
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“Big Boy”: Michael Jackson’s First Recording, Found After 42 Years
The Jackson Five’s Steeltown and One-derful versions of “Big Boy”: a showdown.
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The Goblins Return to Play Caveman-a-Go-Go Tonight
The Goblins play Caveman-a-Go-Go tonight at Bottom Lounge, performing a set of their own material for the first time in nearly ten years.
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The Woman on the Right and the Godfather of King Drive
Two great Reader stories inspired by Numero Group releases
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Jake Austen discusses “The Jackson Find” on 848
Reader contributor Jake Austen, whose research led to the recent discovery of Michael Jackson’s first studio recording, discusses this week’s cover story on WBEZ’s 848. Also on 848: Geoff Dougherty on what’s going on at the Chi-Town Daily News.
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Jackson Five story led to more than one discovery
In the process of shooting photos for the Reader’s Jackson Five cover story, he discovered something else.
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Earliest Known Jackson Five Studio Recording Found
Jake Austen set out to tell the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967, and picked up a trail that led to the discovery of their earliest known studio recording.
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The Jackson Find
This was supposed to be the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967. But while he was writing it, Jake Austen picked up a trail leading to a tape nobody knew existed: the earliest known studio recording of Michael Jackson and his brothers.
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Jake Austen talks about Chicago “Soul Train” on WGN radio
Jake Austen discusses Chicago’s version of “Soul Train” with WGN Radio’s Nick Digilio on Friday at midnight.