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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 16, 2011
This week on the B Side

Glam garage, Hopper's current jams, Tyler Jon Tyler meets Screaming Females, picks from local scenesters, and more
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Mickey, Purple and Green, Jessica Hopper, Artist on Artist, In Rotation, Secret History of Chicago Music, Soundboard, Chicago

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Music, Music Column, Jun 16, 2011
Mickey polish their nasty glam till it shines
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music Column, Mickey, Smith Westerns, HoZac, Electric Dreams, Rock 'n' Roll Dreamer, Blackout Fest, Troy Canaday, Mick Swagger, Mark McKeniie, Mac Blackout, Dirty D, Christmas Woods, Brent Zmrhal, Marc Bolan, Mark Freitas, Rotten Fruits

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Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2011
Scenes from the HoZac Blackout

A recap of last weekend's HoZac Blackout at the Velvet Perineum in Logan Square, with photos by Rob Karlic.
- by Brian Costello
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Blackout, HoZac, Velvet Perineum, Christmas Woods, Mickey, Spits, Nobunny, TV Ghost, Eric and the Happy Thoughts, Squish, Agony Bag, Rabies Is a Killer, Nones, ET Habit, Timmy's Organism

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Music, Three Beats, May 19, 2011
Three Beats: Local MC Vic Spencer goes in on Odd Future; Jeanine O'Toole leaves the Hideout; My Silence borrows Sharon Van Etten
- by Miles Raymer, Brian Costello, and Peter Margasak
- Tags: Three Beats, MC Vic Spencer, Tyler, the Creator, Odd Future, XL Recordings, Brainiac Society, Jeanine O'Toole, 1900s, Bare Mutants, Hideout, Mickey, Radar Eyes, Chances Dances, People Under the Stares, My Silence, Sharon Van Etten, Nick Butcher, Jason Stein, Scissor Girls, Kelly Kuvo, Azita Youssefi, Sue Anne Zollinger, Heather Melowic

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Music, Gossip Wolf, Mar 30, 2011
Gossip Wolf: The Blackout’s Back

A first look at HoZac’s lineup for the party you won’t remember. Plus: Tyler Jon Tyler on Shameless, David Daniell’s comp for Japan, and more
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Horizontal Action, Blackout, Hozac Records, Nobunny, The Spits, Idle Times, K-Holes, Reading Rainbow, Brides, Mickey, Heavy Times, Outer Minds, Radar Eyes, Super Wild Horses, Tyler Jon Tyler, David Daniel, Antiopic, The Ex, Fennesz, ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, Grouper, Prefuse 73, Sam Prekop, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Twilight Singers, Big Star, Lungfish, Skull Defekts, Zomes, Millennium Park, Downtown Sound, Iron & Wine, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, Low, Seefeel

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2011
Saturday: the Hideout's All-Day SXSW Sendoff Party

The Hideout throws a South by Southwest sendoff party with Outer Minds, Tiger Bones, Mickey, Radar Eyes, Rabble Rabble, the Waco Brothers, Joan of Arc, and more.
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Crickets, Music, South by Southwest, Hideout, Joan of Arc, Tiger Bones, Outer Minds, Mickey, Austin, Radar Eyes, Rabble Rabble, Waco Brothers

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 12, 2010
The Hideout's SXSW Bon Voyage

This Saturday the Hideout is throwing its fourth annual SXSW send-off to help benefit local bands on their journeys to Austin.
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Crickets, Music, South by Southwest, Hideout, SXSW, music festival, Mickey, Hollows, Via Tania, Mittens on Strings, Love of Everything, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Waco Brothers, Tyler Jon Tyler, Hood Internet

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 17, 2010
Sharp Darts Radio #3

In this podcast: cigar-box guitars, garage legends, new local music, and more
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Mikkey Halsted, Mickey, Golden Triangle, Sleigh Bells, Golden Earring, Cold Cave, Screaming Females, Pierced Arrows, Alex White, White Mystery, Witchcraft, the Laureates, Red Pens, Chicago, Sharp Darts, garage rock, hip-hop, electro, goth, glam rock, Sharp Darts Radio, podcast, cigar-box guitar

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 15, 2010
You Shoot: Mickey at the WHPK Prom

A moment with Mickey at a glam-scuzz prom
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, You Shoot, Mickey, Chicago, garage rock, WHPK Prom, Rob Karlick

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Music, Music Review, Jan 7, 2010
Never Mind the Critics

Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.
- by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, and Jessica Hopper
- Tags: Music Review, Robbie Fulks, Bruce Lamont, Latham Zearfoss, Ken Vandermark, Alex White, Gant-Man, Curt Cameruci, Josh Young, Chuck Inglish, Josh Berman, Howard Greynolds, Yakuza, Chances Dances, Sonore, Frame Quartet, White Mystery, Flosstradamus, Cool Kids, Old Idea, Overcoat Management, Bad Plus, For All I Care, Nellie McKay, Normal as Blueberry Pie, Doris Day, Levon Helm, Electric Dirt, Danny Barnes, Pizza Box, Geraint Watkins, In a Bad Mood, Helen Money, In Tune, Mastodon, Crack the Skye, Keelhaul, Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity, Yoko Ono, Between My Head and the Sky, Shakira, She Wolf, Whitney Houston, Million Dollar Bill, Le Loup, Le Loup Family, Johannes Bauer, Clayton Thomas, Tony Buck, Aus: Live in Nickelsdorf, Peter Brotzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love, Hairy Bones, Legends of Benin, Analog Africa, Andy Moor and Anne-James Chaton, Le Journaliste, Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music, Terrie Hessels, Terp, The Ex, Nobunny, Love Visions, Mickey, HoZac, She's So Crazy, I Am Your Trash, Mic Terror and Million Dollar Mano, Juke Them Hoes, Miike Snow, JJ No. 2, Mannequin Men, Lose Your Illusion, Too, Discovery, Mayer Hawthorne, A Strange Arrangement, The XX, Henry Threadgill Zooid, This Brings Us To, Vol. 1, Chad Taylor, Circle Down, Han Bennink Trio, Parken, Disappears, Lux, Katie Stelmanis, Believe Me, Crying, Doug Paisley

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Music, Soundboard, Sep 17, 2009
The List, September 17-23, 2009

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Laura Barrett, Circulatory System, Health, the Fruit Bats, Obituary, and more
- by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Monica Kendrick, Ann Sterzinger, Kevin Warwick, Bill Meyer, Jessica Hopper, and Brian Costello
- Tags: Soundboard, Laura Barrett, Circulatory System, Health, Owen, The Fall Tribute, Lawrence Peters Benefit, The Thin Man, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Grimble Grumble, Bleary, Blasted Diplomats, Paul Hartsaw, Damon Smith, Jerome Bryerton, Kristian Aspelin, Ida Maria, Fruit Bats, Iran, Mickey, Chairlift, James Falzone's Klang, Klang, Obituary

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Village on a downtown rooftop, backstage with Tyler, the Creator, and ten more

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Miles Raymer's favorite local albums of 2011

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Glam garage, Hopper's current jams, Tyler Jon Tyler meets Screaming Females, picks from local scenesters, and more

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A recap of last weekend's HoZac Blackout at the Velvet Perineum in Logan Square, with photos by Rob Karlic.

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A first look at HoZac’s lineup for the party you won’t remember. Plus: Tyler Jon Tyler on Shameless, David Daniell’s comp for Japan, and more

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The Hideout throws a South by Southwest sendoff party with Outer Minds, Tiger Bones, Mickey, Radar Eyes, Rabble Rabble, the Waco Brothers, Joan of Arc, and more.

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This Saturday the Hideout is throwing its fourth annual SXSW send-off to help benefit local bands on their journeys to Austin.

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In this podcast: cigar-box guitars, garage legends, new local music, and more

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A moment with Mickey at a glam-scuzz prom

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Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.

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Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Laura Barrett, Circulatory System, Health, the Fruit Bats, Obituary, and more