“I try and make the music for the dancers—like Teklife, Beatdown House, everybody in the footwork community. It’s all for them.”
Tag: Salem
Posted inMusic
Witch-house lightning rods Salem return with newfound purpose
Salem seemed briefly ubiquitous in 2010, but history has been kinder to this midwestern electronic trio than anyone would’ve predicted from their rapid rise and equally rapid dismissal. That’s largely due to timing. The members of Salem—vocalists and producers Jack Donoghue, John Holland, and Heather Marlatt—fused narcotized, chopped-and-screwed hip-hop to even drowsier dance music, and […]
Posted inBlogs
Generous is the word at Albany Park’s Karam Grill
Look beyond the grill at this newish Middle Eastern spot.
Posted inBlogs
Looking back on a more innocent time when we could ask, ‘Are the fights on Jerry Springer staged?’
Yes, yes, they were. That doesn’t make a 1999 behind-the-scenes account—including chair-throwing—any less entertaining.
Posted inMusic
Saxophonist Joe Daley helped pioneer free jazz in the late 50s
Joe Daley cut a live trio album at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963 that became an early entry in the free-jazz canon.
Posted inBlogs
Still under the spell of the Salem witch trials
Stacy Schiff talks about her new book The Witches: Salem, 1692 and why the trials are a seminal American story.
Posted inMusic
Tumblr: threat or menace?
Don’t worry, Tumblr isn’t turning creators into mere regurgitators—it’s injecting new blood into an old remix culture
Posted inMusic
Erectoral Politics
Meet your new mayor, Cynthia Plaster Caster. Plus: Steve Shelley, honorary Chicagoan, Svenonius on Nation of Ulysses reunion rumors, and more.
Posted inMusic
The Bad Bitches of South by Southwest
From the “return” of Hole to the paradigm-busting hip-hop of Thee Satisfaction