Chicago singer-songwriter Andrew Smith has promoted Jungle Green’s homemade songs mostly by sending them to people who reply to flyers he’s taped to lampposts. Fortunately he’s also made some well-connected fans.
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Nikki Hartel of Audiotree on a new way to fill out your Eurythmics collection
Current musical obsessions of Nikki Hartel of Audiotree, Mike Gebel of the Empty Bottle, and Luca Cimarusti of the Reader
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Psychedelic impresario Steve Krakow returns his eclectic Million Tongues Festival to the Empty Bottle
This year’s Million Tongues includes Munehiro Narita of High Rise, fingerstyle guitarist Mark Fosson, and a few acts that played the first festival in 2004—Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Fursaxa, and Charalambides.
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Reunited late-70s Irish punks Protex hit Chicago for two shows
Reunited late-70s Irish punks Protex hit Chicago for two shows, Redgrave host an ACLU benefit to fight Trump’s Muslim ban, and more.
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An oral history of the Empty Bottle
An excerpt from The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years of Music / Friendly / Dancing