Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is the scorching “Sick Feeling” from the Obliterations EP The Hole.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 32
Issue of May. 1 – 7, 2014
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Here’s the 2014 North Coast Music Festival lineup
The end-of-summer bash enters its fifth year, and here’s the lineup announcement.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 5/1: Home Theater Festival, Found Footage Festival, and M.I.A.
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, May 1
Posted inColumns & Opinion
I’m a boner hobbyist—does that mean I’m bi?
Dan advises guys who wonder if they’re really bi/gay/reformed.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Rob Riley & Domenic Bucci
SNL alumnus Rob Riley and coconspirator Domenic Bucci cut a novelty record about the 1979 blizzard.
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Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Fest 2014
The sixth annual Chicago International Movies & Music Fest rocks on at Logan Theater and Society for Arts
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Karen Lewis at the Hideout!
On Tuesday, May 6, CTU president Karen Lewis comes to the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, for First Tuesdays, the new Mick and Ben show!
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The community behind La Collection, a new mixtape produced by C-Sick
Tracing the lines between Questlove’s theory on Einstein and society and the new mixtape from Columbia College’s student-run label, AEMMP Records.
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Hustled by Freddy ‘the Beard’ Bentivegna
Mayor Rahm could learn a thing or two from the great pool hustler Freddy “the Beard” Bentivegna—if he hasn’t already.
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12 O’Clock Track: Driving, organ-stoked cool from Klaus Johann Grobe
The infectious opening track from the Swiss duo’s new album
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The twilight of Freddy the Beard
Pool legend Freddy the Beard is banking on a new hustle: selling himself.
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Did you read about Silvio Berlusconi, DJ Rashad, and Frank Lloyd Wright?
Also Chicago’s convicted former comptroller, BASIC, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, a botched execution, chickfactor, narcissism, and stuffed Moonmin toys with dinner?
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 4/30: Othello, the Encyclopedia Show, and Peter Wolf
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, April 30
Posted inArts & Culture
Lookingglass’s In the Garden is more diorama than drama
Lookingglass Theatre’s In the Garden has impressive acting and a terrific staging and that’s it.
Posted inMusic
Diode Milliampere does chiptune the hard way
Chicago chiptune wizard Diode Milliampere wrings music out of obsolete hardware one command line at a time.