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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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Stay Kids, and check ANR out: An Interview with Awesome New Repubic
By Ted Seifried
Miami duo ANR (Awesome New Republic) came blazing through the Empty Bottle last Wednesday in support of their newly released Stay Kids deluxe edition and their ‘It’s Around You’ seven inch. The pair consists of Michael John Hancock on drums/vocals and Brian Robertson on keys/vocals. Their sound has been described as synth, psychedelic, and post-punk [...]
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A Melodious Journey: An interview with O’Death.
By: John Matthew Simon
Over the past decade we have witnessed the reemergence of Americana, everything from the frolicsome resonance of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros to the guttural tipsiness of The Black Keys to the cheese-whiz airiness of Wisconsinite Bon Iver… The artists of this generation have set out to reassemble and reinvigorate the [...]
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Happy Labor Day! Hope you all enjoyed the last bit of summer weather this weekend!
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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Grassroots California: It’s a Movement.
By: John Matthew Simon
I was a spry, maturating twenty-something with the undeniable wit of a drunk and scrapping charm of a “told-ya-so” when I first met Ruga and Robaire, the two Michiganders behind Grassroots California. It was 2006 around the same time that most of our peers were planning great escapes to law schools, medical [...]
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