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Tag: Secret History of Chicago Music

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This Week in the Reader’s Music Section

by Miles Raymer July 15, 2010August 19, 2021

So much Pitchfork stuff. And so much non-Pitchfork stuff too.

Posted inBlogs

This Week in the Reader’s Music Section

by Miles Raymer June 17, 2010August 19, 2021

Albini gossip, brutal New Orleans metal, festival goings-on, and what I’m sure will be a controversial music column

Posted inBlogs

This Week in the Reader’s Music Section

by Miles Raymer May 20, 2010August 19, 2021

Thoughts on race and soul, burns on a bridge-burner, and more

Posted inBlogs

This Week in the Reader’s Music Section

by Miles Raymer May 6, 2010August 19, 2021

Sleigh Bells, an electronic weirdo, early Chicago punk, an Albini burn, and more

Posted inBlogs

Getting Less Secret Every Day

by Miles Raymer April 16, 2010August 19, 2021

The Museum of Contemporary Art hosts the Secret History of Chicago Music in May.

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This Week in the Reader’s Music Section

by Miles Raymer March 25, 2010August 19, 2021

My God . . . it’s full of stars.

Posted inMusic

Secret History of Chicago Music: Shel Silverstein

by Chicago Reader February 4, 2010August 19, 2021

The music career of the famous cartoonist

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Almost eclipsed: Sky “Sunlight” Saxon

by Philip Montoro June 26, 2009August 19, 2021

Secret History of Chicago Music artist Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave, doesn’t want the Seeds front man to go to the great beyond entirely in Michael Jackson’s shadow.

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Parking meter radio

by Whet Moser December 8, 2008August 19, 2021

The Reader’s Mick Dumke talks parking meters with WGN’s Nick Digilio.

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10/25 — Plastic Crimewave and Little Howlin’ Wolf

by Reader staff October 23, 2008August 19, 2021

10/25: Plastic Crimewave and Little Howlin’ Wolf

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Plastic Crimewave, finally on the Internets

by Philip Montoro August 25, 2008August 19, 2021

Now you can visit Plastic Crimewave on the Web.

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