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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 – The Sounds
By: John Matthew Simon
The first time I saw The Sounds grace a Chicago stage was at the Metro in February of 2004 with Kill Hannah. My girlfriends insisted that I tuck away any skepticism or cynicism to come check out this post-punk/new-wave band from Sweden. I was repeatedly told that I would be head [...]
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The Chicago Theatre Turns 90!
By: John Matthew Simon
On October 26th 1921 the venerable Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Theatre, first opened its doors to the public. Since that very first night when the theatre pronounced itself as the “Wonder Theatre of the World”, it has become a Chicago staple; a must for any tourist visiting the cities [...]
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A Melodious Journey: Cymbals Eat Guitars
By: John Matthew Simon
Cymbals Eat Guitars first appeared on my radar in mid 2009, an unforgettable blip that keeps pinging. At the very first glance the lyrics were intellectually stimulating and the album art was simply mesmerizing, all befitting of a band born of a Lou Reed quote. As I listened to Why There [...]
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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The Good, The Bad, and The Fun: 40 Years of the Chicago Reader.
By: John Matthew Simon
A lot has happened in the 40 years since the Chicago Reader first rolled off the presses 51,000 strong. What lingered and looked to languish in its immaculate distribution has become the voice of the “Butcher of the Guild”. It has been providing a unique perspective on everything from the urban serene, [...]
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Curtain Lifter: Rubblebucket Preview
By: John Matthew Simon
If the beauty of The Blow, an eyedropper of LSD, and Fela Kuti’s band got together to translate the transmissions of Tom Tom Club then you would have Rubblebucket. The band brings the punctual patterns of up-tempo dancehall, the relaxed formula of fun, the ever-absorbing guise of Afrobeat, and the ardent [...]
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Curtain Lifter: A Portugal. The Man Preview
By: John Matthew Simon
In the early days of social networking when MySpace mattered, it held a redeeming quality similar to the characteristic that made paying twenty-dollars for a compact disc at Tower Records acceptable. Via its music search interface, one could dive into the undergrowth of indie “Do It Yourself” artists and fine pure gems [...]
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Curtain Lifter: A Fucked Up Show Review (09-28-2011).
By: John Matthew Simon
It was a sun-drenched New York City Sunday about 3 or 4 years ago when I first heard the band name Fucked Up. There was a buzz in the air of the Bohemian Beer Hall and it wasn’t the hum of the Q-train streaming by. Nor was it the hamster-wheel of a [...]
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A Melodious Journey: We Were Promised Jetpacks.