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Mike North: A Man in Full, Maybe a Movie
The slow and fast times of sports radio legend Mike North.
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Digging through Lin’s Bin
Embarrassingly late to Lin Brehmer’s brilliant WXRT belles lettres.
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3/12 — Win a chance to dye the Chicago River green
3/12 — Win a chance to dye the Chicago River green
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Rock of ages: talkin’ bout two generations
The phenomenal and unexpected success of Eric Clapton’s Unplugged record has instigated a muted revolution in the record industry. The music marketplace is currently saturating with a soporific tide of rock and roll at its most laid back. Paul McCartney, Neil Young, and Rod Stewart, among others, have all mothballed their amps, buffed their acoustic […]
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New pop order
Recently metal has become infused with the spirit of punk. What had been a stagnant genre full of empty pomp and vapid posturing has become a valid form for populist statements of alienation. Young bands with something to say began to look to Black Sabbath instead of the Sex Pistols for musical inspiration, and gradually, […]
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Misery loves Morrissey
Johnny Marr discovered Morrissey—sometime after, one assumes, Morrissey invented himself—in 1982. Within a couple of years, Morrissey’s strangled romanticism and Marr’s extremely pragmatic guitar playing made the Smiths one of England’s most celebrated bands. Besides the press’s absolute infatuation with the enigmatic Morrissey—heightened by his refusal to cop to being either gay or straight, claiming, […]
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So Many Records, So Little Time?
The WXRT Question: How Do You Grow Up Without Selling Out?