The Chicago Reader debuted October 1, 1971—almost two years before DJ Kool Herc threw the very first hip-hop party in the Bronx in August 1973, nearly three years before the Ramones made their first appearance onstage at CBGB in August 1974, and more than five years before Frankie Knuckles first spun at the Warehouse in […]
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Chicago prog weirdos Lovely Little Girls premiere the gorgeous monstrosity Glistening Vivid Splash
Fronted by artist Gregory Jacobsen, Lovely Little Girls combine alien prog from the likes of Magma and Art Bears with abject histrionics and body horror.
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Jane Pratt’s Website Debuts
Checking out the eagerly awaited new media offering from the founding editor of Sassy.
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Time Out Shines a Light on the Underground; the Underground Does Not Approve
On the blowing up of spots, aka What Not to Publicize
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Almost eclipsed: Sky “Sunlight” Saxon
Secret History of Chicago Music artist Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave, doesn’t want the Seeds front man to go to the great beyond entirely in Michael Jackson’s shadow.
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Matchitehew interview
Nicole Chambers and Mark Solotroff talk with Vice about this weekend’s black-metal and noise festival.
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The return of Liz Armstrong Sucks threads and my plea for sanity
My periodic defense of Liz Armstrong and a jeremiad about literary journalism.
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Liz Armstrong, now at Vice
Liz Armstrong, the Chicago Reader’s former Chicago Antisocial columnist, now writes for Vice magazine.
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RIP Tim Aher
Former WHPK program director and music promoter Tim Aher has died in London.
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The further adventures of Liz Armstrong
Liz Armstrong lands in Las Vegas with a bang.