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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!
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A Melodious Journey: An interview with Aficionado.
By: John Matthew Simon
There is a moment when a record starts spinning for the first time that your anticipation is offset by the preponderance of those first few guitar chords. Or maybe it’s the resounding percussion that hooks you… Either way we pronounce, with immediacy, our loosely founded subjectivity, “This is my (new found) favorite [...]
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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!
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Curtain Lifter: Tim Kasher at Schubas W/ Aficionado and Geoff Dolce
By: John Matthew Simon
From kinship to liaisons, Tim Kasher has painted a picture of modern adoration that would make Oscar Wilde proud. With his undeniable wit he has conscripted an army of adherents from coast to coast. A following devoted to his hip stirring language and pouncing indie tones. When the first Cursive full-length Such [...]
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A Melodious Journey: Umbra and the Volcan Siege.
By: John Matthew Simon
Psychedelic rock is making a push back into the psyche of this here United States. A burgeoning scene is pouring forth from within the Midwestern Garage Rock “movement”. From the flush tinge of guitar tones to the rattling reflection of vocal approach, the genre is in the upswing of things. Umbra and [...]
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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 Tastemakers a [...]
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A Melodious Journey: Art Vs. Science Interview
By: John Matthew Simon
Too often musicians find themselves imitating the Nine-to-Five demeanor. Whether it is the enervating task of touring or the split personality of stage versus off-stage, we often are consumed by the minutia we proselytize against. Nonetheless, what I have found from experience and mingling is that one cannot fall into a [...]
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A Melodious Journey: An Interview with Digitalism.
Tonight at the Congress Theatre on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, the Hamburg duo Digitalism will be ripping up the stage and making the dance floor bounce. In a modern music industry ensconced in “Dance” and “Rave” music one seldom comes across a live show that is as riveting as the audience. Digitalism [...]
Hangovers & Hand Grenades
by John Matthew Simon
photos by Darkroom Demons
For the 2nd year running we got out the big guns for some kickball fun at Lollapalooza before the festivities began on Saturday. Overnight and into the morning the field had become pockmarked with goose droppings, mud pits, shallow ponds, and an overall scarring from the previous nights headliner, [...]
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