Current musical obsessions of Western Publicity founder Heather West, music critic Jim Kopeny (aka Tankboy), and Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig
Tag: the Kickback
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On Weddings & Funerals, Chicago indie rockers the Kickback make ugliness sound sweet
This show has been canceled. In May, Kickback front man Billy Yost told Billboard that he wrote part of “Will T,” the first single from the band’s recent Weddings & Funerals (Jullian), at age 18; Yost wound up completing the tune, which explores romantic friction and relationship anxiety, on the verge of 30, when he […]
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Chicago’s dance-music community says good-bye to Phil Free Art
Plus: Jack Black drops in on Mikal Cronin at the Bottle, Marc Arcuri makes “disco grunge” as Orphan Schlitz, and more.