This might go down in history as the year everything got completely fucked forever, but some people will also fondly recall it as the year when Sonic Boom finally released his glorious second LP, All Things Being Equal—three decades after his solo debut. Peter Kember, the multi-instrumentalist better known as Sonic Boom, made Spectrum way […]
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The tallest hat in the afterlife on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by local artist Chema Skandal.
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Two of Chicago’s rising dark rock groups collaborate in the studio and onstage
It would be worth an outing to the Empty Bottle just to see two of the most compelling bands Chicago has produced in recent years on one bill. Dark postrock trio Lume entered the fray last year with their full-length debut, Wrung Out (Equal Vision), a raw, emotional, and cinematically dreary work that examines loss […]
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Ruido Fest announces its 2017 lineup
This year’s Ruido Fest spans genres and generations, with Intocable, Bomba Estéreo, Molotov, Julieta Venegas, Titán, El Guincho, Ruido Rosa, and many more.
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Nashville’s Promised Land Sound expand their country-rock music
The band deftly incorporates psychedelia on its strong new album For Use & Delight.
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12 O’Clock Track: The blanketing psych of Far-Out Fangtooth’s “Mother Nature Fetish”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Mother Nature Fetish” by the psych-heavy Far-Out Fangtooth
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The ambitious, quasi-international, and bloated psych-rock of Seattle’s Rose Windows
The Seattle band, which plays the Empty Bottle on Friday, color their brand of rock with global flourishes that only go skin deep.
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12 O’Clock Track: “I Think of Demons,” a Roky Erickson classic back in print
A Roky Erickson gem from his classic comeback album The Evil One
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Steve Krakow’s magical history tour
Steve Krakow’s Humboldt Park apartment is teeming with records, comics, and an animatronic bear or two.
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Thursday: Woods play at Subterranean
Upstate New York psych-rockers Woods sound sunnier than ever
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: HA
HA’s lone mid-80s EP is long gone, but Andy Mead and Steve Marcotte now play together in the Finnish Charts
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The Now Underground Sound of Drag City
Magik Markers and Sic Alps, two Drag City acts that are old-school underground, play at Ronny’s on Saturday night.
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Tobacco’s Found Video (Which Maybe Should’ve Stayed Lost)
Appropriation, psychedelia, and Russian E.T. knockoff porno