Multi-instrumentalist Liam Kazar has been so crucial to my evolving understanding of Chicago’s bustling, magnanimous music scene that I felt a little heartbroken when he moved to Kansas City in 2019. He’d risen to national fame in the early 2010s as part of the youthful fusion ensemble Kids These Days, whose idealistic collision of jazz, […]
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Silicone Prairie sound like new wave played at the wrong speed
Hyperactive Kansas City punk act Silicone Prairie recently released an EP that includes a cover of notorious Chicago band the Mentally Ill.
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Whiplash: A jazz movie that has nothing to do with jazz
You’ve heard about Damien Chazelle’s much-praised Whiplash—now here’s the backlash.
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The Robert Altman film Altman never wanted you to see
A crew of cinephiles tracked down a rare print of Corn’s-a-Poppin’ and set about restoring Robert Altman’s 1955 musical comedy.
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12 O’Clock Track: An emphatic salute to 90s-era noise rock on Bummer’s “Infinite Witches”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Infinite Witches” from Kansas City’s Bummer.
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As pecking orders go among cities, what’s the place of Chicago?
Comments on Rachel Shteir’s New York Times book review suggest a complex sort of civic assessment.
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Gimme back the pure stuff
Theater Wit stages Trainspotting U.S.A., based on Irvine Welsh’s novel about heroin addicts
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Expo 70 returns to Chicago on Friday
Justin Wright’s propulsive ambient-psych project shares a bill with Cleared at the Burlington.
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An Artist’s Homecoming
Chicago painter Calvin Jones stored work at the South Side Community Arts Center for a decade. Now that he’s getting a memorial show there, they can’t show any of it.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
An African luncheon, a warehouse sale, a whiskey tasting, and more.
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Society of Midland Authors Best Books Award Winners
Society of Midland Authors 2010 Award Winners
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Chrissy Murderbot Has Dance Music in His DNA
Christopher Shively, aka Chrissy Murderbot, is one of the midwest’s sharpest dance-music vectors.
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Jay McShann, R.I.P.
Legendary Kansas City jazz pianist Jay McShann died yesterday at 90.