In-person gatherings are still a possibility, so the Gig Poster of the Week continues to publish artwork for upcoming concerts. We at the Reader generally support you in your choice to give local bands your love by going to shows, but please keep safety guidelines in mind as you do so—especially now that it’s painfully […]
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Homeroom’s Physics for Listeners series connects local trio ZRL with four disparate composers
Homeroom’s Physics for Listeners series connects local trio ZRL with four disparate composers, the Plastic (Crimewave) Ono Band releases its fourth tape-only split, and more.
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Remembering Glenn Branca, or at least his sound
Finding enlightenment and banishing evil with the Plastic Crimewave Vision Celestial Guitarkestra.
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When your third eye is your only eye on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist, musician, and Reader contributor Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave.
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Plastic Crimewave Syndicate knows a Hawkwind from a handsaw
Chicago would have been a much more mundane place over the last two decades without the tireless efforts of musician, artist, promoter, historian (and Reader contributor) Plastic Crimewave, aka Steve Krakow. Sometimes his music can seem overshadowed by his work organizing and promoting shows of great psychedelic trip-meisters from all over the world, but a […]
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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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The Hideout family celebrate 20 years on Saturday with a relaxed, neighborly reunion party
The Hideout isn’t having a full-blown Block Party this year, but you can still see Eleventh Dream Day, Kelly Hogan, the Lawrence Peters Outfit, Robbie Fulks, the JC Brooks Band, Devil in a Woodpile, the reunited Mr. Rudy Day, and many more.
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Paris’s spry Umlaut Big Band celebrates the early days of jazz in Europe
The Umlaut Big Band’s Euro Swing Vol. 2 examines the work of American composers and musicians working in Europe in the 20s and 30s—and Dusty Groove celebrates its 20th anniversary with a block party.
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Getting far-out with Dead Meadow on the psyched-out gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist and musician Steve “Plastic Crimewave” Krakow.
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Steve Krakow celebrates the release of his Secret History of Chicago Music book
Bobby Conn, Ono, Athanor, and VCSR play a launch party tonight for a book collecting the long-running Reader feature the Secret History of Chicago Music.
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Here are 28 books we can’t wait to read in 2015
New stuff to read from Sandra Cisneros, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Patti Smith, and more.
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Local art-rockers Ono reissue more of their long-lost catalog
Priority Male and Galactic Archive team up once again for a reissue.
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Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs talks to Steve Krakow about guitar geekdom and surprising yourself onstage
Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs talks to Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave: “I just want every show to blow my fucking mind.”
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 4/19: Chicago Zines, 20×2 Chicago, and Record Store Day
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, April 19
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Ono and Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan collaborate again
Three of Chicago’s experimental giants combine forces on Monday night.