Shelby Davis: from the Little Mountain Sweetheart to Bill Russo’s vocalist.
Tag: Vol. 39 No. 31
Issue of Apr. 22 – 28, 2010
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The HighLife Wrap Up Their Tour Tonight at Skylark
The new album from Jason Ajemian’s HighLife doesn’t stick to one style any more consistently than the band does live.
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The Reader’s “Shadow Budget” Coverage Wins a Lisagor
Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke take home the Peter Lisagor award for in-depth reporting for their coverage of the city’s Shadow Budget—arising from the city’s tax increment financing program.
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“Bloody Hell, Glen Matlock Doesn’t Understand Fundamentally What Johnny Rotten Did”
It was Tommy Steele, not the Beatles, who got Glen Matlock fired from the Sex Pistols.
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M.I.A.’s made her name off of spiking her considerable talents for putting together massively catchy tunes with broad streaks of aesthetic and political transgression, ie. promoting Dramamine-worthy fabric prints, siding with terr’ists, et cetera. Broad, but frequently shallow. For every legitimately thought-provoking action she engages in, like
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Reader Advertising: Working For You*
The Reader – well, American Science and Surplus at least – makes the Late Show.
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John Berberian and His Oud at the Old Town School
One of the world’s few true masters of the oud plays Wednesday night and Thursday morning at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
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Rock History Is Written by the Victors
Jackie Leven’s take on rock history from the losing side
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Morning Art: Eric Ashcraft
Part of “Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain,” on display at Pilsen Vintage and Thrift
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New Bags at African Sanctuary
Checking in with African Sanctuary, a vendor of accessories and home accents by African artisans and designers.
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Monotonix to Play Dark Lord Day
The special secret unannounced band at Dark Lord Day 2010 in Munster is Monotonix.