Plus: Hujo make dance music with “a mosaic of organic and digital tactics,” and Autonomy guitarist Ray Suburbia returns to Chicago with a new DIY print zine.
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Gossip Wolf: Red Scare Industries celebrates ten years
Red Scare Industries celebrates ten years, and The-Drum launches the Lo Motion label
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Gossip Wolf: Not Normal Tapes celebrates five antisocial years
Five antisocial years of Not Normal Tapes, a new pansexual dance party at East Room, and more
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Gossip Wolf: Friends help Scoundrel bounce back from a van crash
Friends help Scoundrel bounce back from a van crash, Hunter Husar books a schizo bill in Bridgeport, and more
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John Carpenter, Lollapalooza celebrities, old-school death metal, and more on the B Side
Horror music, Lolla sightings, old-school death metal, and more
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Gossip Wolf: Filth and fame at Lollapalooza
“Celebrity” sightings at Lollapalooza, plus new chapters for the revived Broken Hope and the band formerly known as Mahjongg
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Getting an eyeful at Lollapalooza
Frodo’s floor-clearing DJ set, Costner on a cart, and more celeb sightings at the fest. Plus: Kesha checks out Disappears, Paleo moves to the Chi, and Mahjongg’s Hunter Husar goes solo
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Get Better, Buddy
One of the guys who ran the beloved loft space recovers from a shooting. Plus: Canadian Girlfriends in the flesh and nerds in the club
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Version 11
Version 11 The 11th go-round of the annual artist-run festival Version begins Friday 4/22, with parties, art shows, and other affiliated events continuing through 5/1. This week’s schedule is listed in brief below, and in greater detail at versionfest.org; events are free unless otherwise noted. The festival opens with The New New Chicagoans, a show […]
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This Week in the Reader’s Music Section
Dance-punk weirdos, a bluegrass institution, a well-deserved box set for a soul icon, and much more
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A Rave for Lazer Crystal
Krautrock, Italo-disco, prog, noise, electro, and house come together in genuine body-moving music.
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Dinner and a Show: Saturday 12/12
Music Show: “White Car were perfectly menacing, complete with a creepy, shirtless singer in a cowboy hat and a Trenchcoat Mafia longhair on keys—they’re the best new local band I’ve seen all year,” writes Jessica Hopper. Mahjongg headlines. 9 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401, $10. Dinner: Jane’s Raters feel at home in […]
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7/18 — Health, Mahjongg play Pitchfork afterparty
Health, Mahjongg play a free Pitchfork afterparty at the Hideout.
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Local Release Roundup
RHYMEFEST Man in the Mirror (Free download at rhymefeststore.com) Legacy Recordings must have thought it would make for good music—or at least a good marketing gimmick—to have Will.i.am, Akon, and Kanye West remix some of Michael Jackson’s songs for the 25th-anniversary edition of Thriller that’s coming out next month. But faced with material that’s so […]