- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 15, 2013
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The veteran soul voices of Aaron Neville and Shuggie Otis converge on Chicago
Veteran soul singers Aaron Neville and Shuggie Otis play the Chicago area this week behind new recordings.
- Music, Music Feature, Mar 25, 2013
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Getting back to Marcos Valle
This Brazilian singer-songwriter’s best records came out more than 40 years ago and just got their first U.S. release.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 31, 2013
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Benjamin, the R&B alter ego of Chicago Stone Lightning Band's front man, releases an outrageous new single
Cherries Records re-presses "Love Is Gonna Let You Down" b/w "Not a Moment Too Soon."
- Music, Music Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Dave Matta, the educator"I feel a great deal of responsibility as a DJ in this town."
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Lee Fields, "You're the Kind of Girl"
A song from the killer new Lee Fields album
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2012
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My playlist of political soul
Nine of my favorite soul tracks that push for a better world
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Jan 26, 2012
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jimmy Burns
The little brother of Eddie "Guitar" Burns started out singing doo-wop and now plays the blues for Delmark
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2011
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RIP Howard Tate and Hubert Sumlin
Over the weekend soul singer Howard Tate and blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin passed away, at 72 and 80, respectively.
- Music, Artist on Artist, Jul 21, 2011
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Hip-hop artist Peven Everett talks to jazz guitarist Jeff Parker
'I was a lot more of a free spirit than jazz was allowing'
- Blogs, Bleader, May 27, 2010
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To Do Tonight: Hot Smoke & Mini Skirts at Beauty Bar
Garage rock and funk for free at Beauty Bar
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2010
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Today in "Finally"
Mingering Mike finally makes an album cover for a record that's actually being released.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 29, 2009
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A Snapshot—Musical and Visual—of the South Side in the 70s
The Numero Group releases Michael L. Abramson's photographs of south-side blues clubs and lounges from 1975-77 and complements it with a great double LP of rare music from the same millieu.
- Music, Music Feature, Sep 10, 2009
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The Jackson Find
This was supposed to be the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967. But while writing it, Jake Austen picked up the trail of a tape nobody knew existed: the earliest known studio recording of Michael Jackson and his brothers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 8, 2009
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Lightening the mood
Some classic Minnie Riperton--think of it as a palate cleanser after all the black-metal coverage.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 10, 2008
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Reasons to hit the suburbs, plus a pageant of Asian delights in Lincoln Park
Japanese hot pot for one, upscale soul food from Urban Belly's Bill Kim, and a pageant of Asian cuisine under one roof in Lincoln Park.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 30, 2008
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Amped for Erykah
I am so amped for "New Amerykah"
