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The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP
The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP, an all-star Chicago crew plays Black Sabbath and Abba at the same Halloween show, and more.
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Psych-pop group Roommate play their first Chicago show in more than two years
Psych-pop group Roommate play their first Chicago show in more than two years, DJ Clent spins at another giant juke, footwork, and ghetto-house blowout, and more.
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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House
Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.
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RIP Trey Gruber of promising young Chicago band Parent
Trey Gruber of up-and-coming Laurel Canyon-style rockers Parent has died at age 26.
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Shorts, sharp and shocking, at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
Five days’ worth of features and short subjects screen in the festival’s 24th edition.
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Logan Bay loses half a leg to a driver, keeps programming WLPN from his hospital bed
A badly injured Logan Bay keeps running WLPN from the hospital, Seth Vanek moves throws The Therapy Sessions a birthday party, and more.
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As Roommate, Kent Lambert refracts anxiety into wide-eyed psychedelia
The songwriter dives into the psychology behind his 15-year-old psych-pop project.
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Experiencing the Carpenters in a whole new way at Chicago Film Archives
A mind-blowing homemade 1971 music video for “Close to You” is among the treasures streaming on the Chicago Film Archives website
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Kent Lambert’s Magical Balance
“Using found footage collected from mysterious and amazing sources, Lambert’s work achieves a magical balance between respecting truly unbelievable source material and twisting it into something hilarious and touching.” That’s how curator Alexander Stewart describes the video mixtape by Kent Lambert of art-pop band Roommate, screening tonight, Sunday 8/30 at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art […]