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Home » Lovely Little Girls

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Posted inMusic

Sacha Mullin, singer-songwriter and backup vocalist extraordinaire

by Salem Collo-Julin July 8, 2021March 10, 2022

“I want to assemble things as if I’m storyboarding in my head. In a way, I feel like a casting director for sound.”

Posted inMusic

Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil October 8, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust, Sacha Mullin celebrates an earnest, silly new video for an old song, and more.

Posted inMusic

Cheer-Accident celebrate 20 albums as a beacon of prog-rock absurdity

by Monica Kendrick August 15, 2019August 18, 2021

With the new Chicago XX, their third full-length in three years, the indefatigable weirdos in Cheer-Accident have hit a hot streak late in the fourth decade of their career.

Posted inMusic

Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl play with 30 cellos in a swimming pool

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil March 13, 2019August 18, 2021

Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl play with 30 cellos in a swimming pool, the rejuvenated Skin Graft Records drops a Chicago vs. New York compilation, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Twisted fantasies are alive on the gig poster of the week

by Luca Cimarusti September 20, 2017August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist and Lovely Little Girls member Gregory Jacobsen.

Posted inMusic

Sacha Mullin of Cheer-Accident celebrates a new album of avant-garde pop

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil July 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Sacha Mullin of Cheer-Accident celebrates a new album of avant-garde pop, Featherproof and Moniker publish a memoir by outsider punk J.T. IV, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago prog weirdos Lovely Little Girls premiere the gorgeous monstrosity Glistening Vivid Splash

by Philip Montoro July 8, 2016August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

District 97 celebrate a gleaming new album of top-shelf prog at Martyrs’ on Friday

by Philip Montoro June 18, 2015August 18, 2021

Next week Chicago prog-rock five-piece District 97 release their third studio album, In Vaults, and they’ve just shared its first single.

Posted inMusic

Haki get as punk as they ever will on a new EP

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil January 7, 2015August 18, 2021

Gossip Wolf: Haki get as punk as they ever will on a new EP, the Deep Kutz series signs off with one last outlandish covers show, and more

Posted inBlogs

Arty local postpunk trio Bomb Banks ready their debut

by Leor Galil November 9, 2012August 19, 2021

The local trio’s forthcoming Not People sounds pretty creepy

Posted inBlogs

A Duran Duran-loving metalhead, a debut album almost 20 years in the making, and more on the B Side

by Miles Raymer October 18, 2012August 19, 2021

A long-in-the-making jazz career, experimental music at the MCA, obscure radio-friendly rock, and more

Staff Benda Bilili
Posted inMusic

In Rotation: Arriver guitarist Dan Sullivan on Duran Duran

by Philip Montoro October 17, 2012August 19, 2021

Current obsessions of Lovely Little Girls bassist Alex Perkolup and Arriver guitarist and vocalist Dan Sullivan

Posted inBlogs

This week on the B Side

by Miles Raymer December 15, 2011August 19, 2021

Overlooked releases from 2011, tons of local music news, and a chat with one of the Wilco dudes

Posted inMusic

Three Beats: The Old Town School preps new digs and digs into its past

by Kevin Warwick, Philip Montoro and Monica Kendrick December 15, 2011August 19, 2021

Three Beats: Old Town School preps digs and digs deep, Chrome Waves roll in, Vic’s Drum Shop invents a holiday, and Lovely Little Girls reemerge with a new lineup

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