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Tag: JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 7/20: Paul Mooney, Sheffield Garden Walk, and art by John Lennon
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, July 20
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Taste of Randolph 2013
Taste of Randolph 2013: Try a bit of the Joy Formidable with your Publican Quality Meats.
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Reader readers built their very own jukebox
Reader readers build their very own jukebox.
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How to make it through Lollapalooza: Saturday
The acts that will get you through Saturday of Lollapalooza with a minimum of regrets
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FitzGerald’s American Music Festival
C.J. Chenier, Brave Combo, Robbie Fulks as the Everly Brothers, and more at FitzGerald’s American Music Festival
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What to do at Do-Division Street Fest
Highlights of the Do-Division Street Fest include Peanut Butter Wolf, Le Butcherettes, and Pinebender
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The return of Pinebender and more at this year’s Do-Division Street Fest
Pinebender plays its first show in two years at Do-Division—and a big chunk of the rest of the lineup has been announced too.
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The Hood Internet, Netherfriends, the Eternals, and more great local music at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival
The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival returns to Logan Square this weekend (Fri-Sun 7/29-7/31), presenting a dazzling variety of art and music to showcase the neighborhood’s diversity. The fest’s three music stages feature lots of local heavy hitters: performers on the main stage, located at the Illinois Centennial Monument (2595 N. Milwaukee), include JC Brooks & the Uptown […]
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Try some Swervedriver with your Wishbone at Taste of Randolph Street
Taking place along the six-block corridor of Randolph between Peoria and Racine, the Taste of Randolph Street features lots of food and three days of live music on two stages, Fri-Sun 6/17-6/19. Friday the music starts at 5 PM and includes the Heavy and Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers on the west stage (Randolph […]
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Record Store Day
Falling as usual on the third Saturday in April (4/16), the vinyl nerd’s favorite made-up holiday is celebrating its fifth year of celebrating independently owned record stores. This year’s Record Store Day attempts a coup d’etat against what the organizers call “online retailers or corporate behemoths” with the help of more than 700 stores in […]
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Peter Margasak at the Shrine Tonight; DJ Premier in June
Peter Margasak DJs at the Shrine, putting him in league with DJ Premier.
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Columbia College’s Story Week gives us Literary Rock & Roll
Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers presents Literary Rock & Roll tonight at the Metro with Richard Price, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, and more.