Monthly Archives: July 2011

THE GREAT GRANNYISM CAP OFF CONTEST!

Have you checked out the Great Grannyism Cap Off Contest? Share your grannyism for a chance to win sweet concert tickets, a year’s supply of Sweet Leaf Tea and international acclaim by coining grannyism #79. Enter your Grannyism now through October 21. Be one of the top five entries with the most votes. [...]
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Big Light Shines Bright on Wicker Park Fest

Interview By Ted Seifried Big Light is a San Francisco based rock band that has been gaining national attention since their 2010 release of Animals In Bloom.  Their gutsy rock experimentation and outstanding live shows have generated much buzz in the music industry.  Big light formed in 2007 as a way to get frontman Fred Torphy’s [...]
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Curtain Lifter: Previewing Torche, Big Business, and Helms Alee at the Bottom Lounge July 28th

By: John Matthew Simon Whether you call it sludge-rock, stoner-metal, or any other combination of geologically befitting titles, the razzmatazz is real. In an era dominated by decimal pointless nomenclature it is relieving to speak of genre(s) and have the moniker reign true. To often we are clouded by the supposed clairvoyance of bloggers and led astray by the myopia [...]
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Here is this week’s dose from Chicago’s Tastemakers! Each week we check in with our 50+ Chicago movers and shakers to see what’s going on. Stay tuned each week to get each week’s wrap, and next week’s view! Our weekly Tastemaker Spotlight is going to help you lovely people get to know our [...]
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Everest Is Approaching! An Everest Interview

Interview By Ted Seifried L.A. band Everest has taken up a July residency in Chicago with the help of Corona and XRT in support of their latest effort On Approach. I caught up with them at Uncommon Ground just days before their Sunday set at Wicker Park Fest. Everest has recently toured with the likes [...]
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Here is this week’s dose from Chicago’s Tastemakers! Each week we check in with our 50+ Chicago movers and shakers to see what’s going on. Stay tuned each week to get each week’s wrap, and next week’s view! Our weekly Tastemaker Spotlight is going to help you lovely people get to know our [...]
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Here is this week’s dose from Chicago’s Tastemakers! Each week we check in with our 40+ Chicago movers and shakers, to see what’s going on, stay tuned each week to get each week’s wrap, and next week’s view! Starting this week, we’re going to help you lovely people get to know our Tastemakers a [...]
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Bully In The Hideout

By: John Matthew Simon Are you busy this Thursday? If not, come out to the Hideout Inn in Chicago’s Goose Island industrial corridor to support the local post-genre/champagne-rock quintet Bully in the Hallway. After constantly playing shows over the past five years supporting a debut LP “Apples and Sunshine” and 3 song EP “Advice” that [...]
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Happy Fourth of July, everyone! We’re taking it a bit easy this week, what with the festivities of America’s birthday and all. Here is this week’s dose from Chicago’s Tastemakers! Each week we check in with our 40+ Chicago movers and shakers, to see what’s going on, stay tuned each week to get each week’s [...]
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Mash Rules Everything Around Me

By: John Matthew Simon As a youngin’ pounding the concrete of Chicago there were seldom things that could court my youthful concentration… However two such things that captivated my thoughts and provoked conscious progression were Hip Hop and Punk Rock. From freestyle sessions to graffiti bombing runs to mosh pits for Fireside Bowl weekends… These two [...]
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