Guitarist and drummer Weasel Walter, the “brutal prog” purveyor best known as longtime leader of the Flying Luttenbachers, left Chicago in 2003 for San Francisco and later moved to New York—but he sure has been popping up around here an awful lot lately. This wolf is starting to suspect he’s living in our town once […]
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Sacha Mullin, singer-songwriter and backup vocalist extraordinaire
“I want to assemble things as if I’m storyboarding in my head. In a way, I feel like a casting director for sound.”
Chicago filmmaker Jim Sikora screens a rarely seen love letter to Saccharine Trust
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.
Cheer-Accident celebrate 20 albums as a beacon of prog-rock absurdity
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.
Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl play with 30 cellos in a swimming pool
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.
Twisted fantasies are alive on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist and Lovely Little Girls member Gregory Jacobsen.
Sacha Mullin of Cheer-Accident celebrates a new album of avant-garde pop
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.
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.
District 97 celebrate a gleaming new album of top-shelf prog at Martyrs’ on Friday
Next week Chicago prog-rock five-piece District 97 release their third studio album, In Vaults, and they’ve just shared its first single.
Haki get as punk as they ever will on a new EP
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
Arty local postpunk trio Bomb Banks ready their debut
The local trio’s forthcoming Not People sounds pretty creepy
A Duran Duran-loving metalhead, a debut album almost 20 years in the making, and more on the B Side
A long-in-the-making jazz career, experimental music at the MCA, obscure radio-friendly rock, and more
In Rotation: Arriver guitarist Dan Sullivan on Duran Duran
Current obsessions of Lovely Little Girls bassist Alex Perkolup and Arriver guitarist and vocalist Dan Sullivan
This week on the B Side
Overlooked releases from 2011, tons of local music news, and a chat with one of the Wilco dudes
Three Beats: The Old Town School preps new digs and digs into its past
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