Tufting their way through the pandemic
Tag: Nostalgia
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The Chicago Underground Quartet bottle their lightning again
For 19 years, the Chicago Underground Quartet’s first album was their only album—but now longtime collaborators Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, and Chad Taylor have recaptured the group’s freewheeling jazz spirit.
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Boy Band Review help their fans turn off adulthood for a few hours
You can’t count on a Jonas Brothers reunion every week—and in the meantime, this Chicago group brings nostalgic boy-band favorites to life onstage all over the midwest.
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Incubus hated nu-metal before hating nu-metal was cool
Nu-metal is enjoying a rosy reappraisal in the media, but Incubus cut their ties to the much-maligned subgenre even before its early-2000s fall from grace.
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Can Riot Fest turn nostalgia into a renewable resource?
Maybe Riot Fest can book amazing reunions forever—but only by building current bands into tomorrow’s back-from-the-dead headliners.
Posted inBlogs
The new It is an R-rated Disney movie
A new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel is a shrewd mix of nostalgia and horror.
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Drink in the nostalgia at the Reader’s Cocktail Challenge event on September 15
Nearly 20 local bartenders compete Thursday at Salvage One to create cocktails that evoke simpler times.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Long live the 1990s Bulls
Deathless memories of Jordan’s team help us cope with Chicago basketball’s dysfunctional present.
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Check out our photos of Cheap Trick’s Metro show
Cheap Trick performed at the Metro, one week ahead of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Alt-rock revivalists Post Child brings more 90s nostalgia to town this weekend
The band’s new single sounds right out of the 90s.
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12 O’Clock Track: Trail of Dead’s ‘It Was There That I Saw You,’ the opener to its seminal album
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “It Was There That I Saw You” from Trail of Dead’s 2002 abum Source Tags & Codes, which the band will be playing in full at the Empty Bottle on Tue 4/1.
Posted inBlogs
Remembering Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills
Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia
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The Shining at midnight: am I Blu?
Thoughts on a recent midnight show at the Logan Theater
Posted inCity Life
Mike Lust’s den of vintage toys
Phantom Manor engineer Mike Lust fills his Logan Square abode with 80s nostalgia