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Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2018
Violence begets violence on the gig poster of the week

This week's gig poster was designed by local artist John Sant.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, John Sant, Beat Kitchen, Rlyr, Sweet Cobra, Fotocrime, Paletazo

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Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 27, 2018
Emily Jane Powers writes pop songs fit for a Pushcart anthology

Plus: Paul Cherry finally fills a full-length with his sweet yacht rock, and post-Disappears trio Facs drop their debut album.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Emily Jane Powers, Restless, Part of Me, Erik Hall, In Tall Buildings, Beat Kitchen, Half Gringa, Jessica Risker, Fran, Paul Cherry, Olive Garden, FeelTrip, Flavour, Pitchfork, Virgin Hotels, Anna Burch, Divino Niño, Facs, Disappears, Trouble in Mind, Negative Houses, Empty Bottle, Ethers, Dim

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Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 13, 2018
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Chicago shoegaze saviors Panda Riot bring their album Infinity Maps to vinyl

Plus: Dark Matter pairs its monthly limited coffee blend with a cassette of instrumental hip-hop, and psychedelic postpunks Cafe Racer celebrate the new Famous Dust.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Panda Riot, Infinity Maps, shoegaze, Beat Kitchen, vinyl, Night Animation, Silver Liz, Sleepwalk, Dark Matter, Dark Matter Coffee, Intellectual Curiosity, Electronic Buffet Vol. 1, Radius, Fess Grandiose, Shon Dervis, Tewz, ETC Records, Cafe Racer, Empty Bottle, Famous Dust, Maximum Pelt, Ethers, Gosh!, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 12, 2018
St. Vincent at the Chicago Theatre, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

The Rhinoceros Theater Festival and more goings-on January 12-14
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, shark tank, jennifer estlin, faith soloway, annoyance theatre, jesus has two mommies, emma draves, listen, beat kitchen, brian posehn, rhino fest, prop thtr, sketchfest, ex fest, living light, hunter cole, arc gallery, greg ott, chicago theatre, leor galil

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Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2017
Best Labor Day weekend things to do in Chicago

Taste of Polonia, Great American Lobster Fest, and more holiday weekend happenings from September 1-4
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, great american lobster fest, navy pier, herold, io, taste of polonia, wet cash, dark tower comics, prakriti, sing and stomp, beat kitchen, 24-hour fest, berger park cultural center, labor day, congressional church of jefferson park, dance, lobster, barnyard, honky tonk, crustaceans, annual mushroom show, chicago botanical garden

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Music, In Rotation Aug 22, 2017
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Cheer-Accident mastermind Thymme Jones on the upside of Herb Alpert’s nervous breakdown

Plus: Top 40 encyclopedia Tony Young on whether Linkin Park outcharted the Beatles, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on century-old 78s from a survivor of the Armenian genocide, and more
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: In Rotation, Youssou N’Dour, Millennium Park, Yitél, mbalax, Senegal, Muslim, Zabelle Panosian, I Am Servant of Your Voice: April-May, 1917, Bandcamp, Transgender Law Center, Canary Records, Armenian, Hamidian massacres, 78s, Free Salamander Exhibit, Beat Kitchen, Nils Frykdahl, Undestroyed, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Thymme Jones, Cheer-Accident, Michael Mantler, Edward Gorey, The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories, Robert Wyatt, Jack DeJohnette, Terje Rypdal, Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass, Going Places, It Was a Very Good Year, The Shadow of Your Smile, Shades of Blue, Love So Fine, She Touched Me, The Brass Are Comin’, I’ll Be Back, cicadas, Tony Young, Top 40 Tony, Billboard, Hot 100, Hot Rock Songs, Beatles, Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, Pioneer, Fisher Studio Standard, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jul 5, 2017
Guided by Voices knock ’em dead on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was designed by local artist Josh Davis of Dead Meat Design.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, Arts, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Guided by Voices, Beat Kitchen, Josh Davis, Dead Meat Design

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Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2017
Voices Against Violence, Maifest, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Trixie Mattel, the Fourth Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival, and more happenings from May 30-June 1.
- By Emily Wasielewski
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Emily Galati, Zanies, Welcome Home series, The Chicago Reporter, Young Chicago Authors, Public Narrative, Kennedy-King College Theatre, Voices Against Violence, Trixie Mattel, RuPaul's Drag Race, Laugh Factory, Women and Children First, Courage Campaign, Annie Clark, Andrea Pino, We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out, Ada Cheng, No Quite: Asian American by Law, Asian Woman by Desire, Public House Theatre, Healing Corner, Maifest, Lincoln Square, German Festival, Patton Oswalt, Fourth Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival, Xasthur, Beat Kitchen

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Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2017
Switch on with the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was designed by Ratboys guitarist Dave Sagan.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, Arts, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Beat Kitchen, Dave Sagan, Ratboys, Chris Dertz & the River, Arizona Landmine, Retirement Party, Vaya, Coaster

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Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2017
Avoid Saint Patrick’s Day in Chicago this weekend with works by Larry Clark at the MCA and more things to do

Louder Than a Bomb, the We Watch Wrestling podcast, Claudia Pop-Up dinner, and more happenings from March 10-12
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Too Much Fun Too, Quimby's, Strip Joker, Uptown Underground, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 20th anniversary, Bucket o Blood, Murder and Mayhem in Chicago, Roosevelt University, We Watch Wrestling, Beat Kitchen, Full Circle, Auditorium Theatre, Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Louder Than a Bomb, Metro, Young Chicago Authors, Claudia Pop-Up

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Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 7, 2017
Instrumental prog-fusion wizards Monobody celebrate a new split album

Plus: The Co-Prosperity Sphere hosts 32 DJs in 24 hours to benefit Lumpen Radio, and Savage Sister guitarist Michael Tenzer returns with the synth-forward Soft Lashes.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Monobody, prog, Pyramid Scheme, Nnami Ogbonnaya, Slow Mass, Great Deceivers, Beat Kitchen, 32x24, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Logan Bay, Joe Bryl, WLPN, Lumpen Radio, K Sity, Mixtress Annie, Mykol, In-Between, Savage Sister, Michael Tenzer, Wild Patterns, Lazy Legs, Soft Lashes, Hypersensuality, Chain of Pink

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Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 17, 2017
This weekend’s No Walls benefit helps Chicagoans help the people in Trump’s crosshairs

Plus: Bobby Conn answers the inauguration with two sets at the Hideout, and the Whistler launches a free music service.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, No Walls, No Walls: A Benefit for Marginalized Chicago Communities, Beat Kitchen, Geronimno!, Kelly Johnson, Kickstand Productions, John Ugolini, iO Chicago, Jennifer Cumberworth, Troubled Hubble, the Avantist, No Men, Mother Nature, Chicago House, Thresholds, Howard Brown Health, Chicago Women’s Health Center, Bobby Conn, Superband, Inauguration Special, Monica BouBou, Hideout, Billie Howard, Devin Davis, Josh Johannpeter, Jim “Dallas” Cooper, Marvin Tate, the Whistler, the Weekly Free, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Matchess, Elliot Bergman, Wild Belle

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Arts & Culture, Calendar Oct 24, 2016
More than three dozen of the best Halloween 2016 events

A ghoulish brunch, a costume parade, and more spooky things to do.
- Tags: Calendar, Halloween 2016, Another 90s Halloween Party, Beauty Bar, Bowie Night 2: Son of Bowie, Crown Liquors, Bric-a-Brac’s Halloween Brunch, Empty Bottle, Bye Bye Liver: Drink or Treat, Public House theatre, Carmine's Friday Fright Fest, Carmine's, Dia de los Muertos, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, Day of the Dead, Death Toll, Cornservatory, The Fame Monster Mash, Berlin, Glitter Ghoul Halloween, Late Bar, East Room, Beat Kitchen, Rachal Duggan, Comfort Station, Untitled Supper Club, Hallowzine, Chicago Publishers Resource Center, Cafe Brauer, Haunted Hotel, Emporium Arcade Bar, Evanston History Center, Heltrap Nightmare, Hideout, Fabulous Ladies of Fitness, Cole's, Hog-lloween, Frontier, Howl-o-ween, Sit Social, La Casa de Santanas, Little Bash of Horrors, Bottom Lounge, Mama's Boy, A Memory Place of Fear, Silent Funny, Nightmares on Lincoln Ave., Northalsted Halloween Parade, Pay 2 Slay, Peek-A-Boo, Uptown Underground, Porn and Chicken, Halloween Banger, Evil Olive, Race of the Dead 5K, Scare You Very Much, Chicago Art Department, Spooky Zoo Spectacular, Lincoln Park Zoo, Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind, Whores of Horror

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Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2016
A vice-presidential debate party, Joe Swanberg live, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Adam Ruins Everything Live!, Taco vs. Pizza, and more happenings from October 3-6
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Allison Crutchfield, Beat Kitchen, Adam Ruins Everything, Adam Conover, Park West, Vice Presidential Debate Watch, Chicago History Museum, Tuesday Funk, Hopleaf, Baudelaire in a Box, Links Hall, Reading Under the Influence, Sheffield's, The Interview Show, Hideout, Taco vs. Pizza, Empty Bottle

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Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 13, 2016
Beat Kitchen hosts a panel to confront sexual harassment in music

Plus: Avant-weirdo local label No Index celebrates two new releases at the Hideout, and 606 Records books 24 hours of DJs to benefit Lumpen Radio.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Between Friends, Rape Victim Advocates, Our Music My Body, OurMusicMyBody, Beat Kitchen, Corin Tucker, Sleater-Kinney, Jes Skolnik, Britt Julious, Monica Trinidad, For the People Artists Collective, Beat Kitchen, panel, sexual harassment, Kate Grube, Kittyhawk, No Index, El Is a Sound of Joy, Sapropelic Pycnic, Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Michael Zerang, Hideout, Barn Duet, Wei Zhongle, Rob Jacobs, Phillip Sudderberg, Flak, Jake Lingan, ASMR, Upheaval, Good Willsmith, Max Allison, Mukqs, Ben Baker Billington, Mark Shippy, Daniel Wyche, 606 Records, Pilsen, 24x24, Big Once, Shazam Bangles, Boogie Munsters, Exit, Steve Silver, Lumpen Radio

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Music, In Rotation Aug 9, 2016
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Kittyhawk’s Kate Grube on sassy Japanese math-rock

Plus: Peggy Fioretti of Kickstand Productions on the perfect doo-wop group, Reader writer Leor Galil on a mixtape that bottles the magic of summer, and more
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: In Rotation, Noname, Telefone, Noname Gypsy, After School Matters, Generic 2007 Pop Song, Bojack Horseman, Jeremy Enigk, Beat Kitchen, Sunny Day Real Estate, How It Feels to Be Something On, Kate Grube, Kittyhawk, Tricot, Kabuku, Nichijo_Seikatsu, Japan, Mariah Carey, Emotions, MTV Unplugged, #OurMusicMyBody, Between Friends, Rape Victim Advocates, domestic violence, abuse, Peggy Fioretti, Kickstand Productions, Bighand//Bigknife, Winner’s Cup, The Platters, doo-wop, Pinegrove, Audiotree Live, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2016
Heron Oblivion dive into a secret bunker on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was created by local artist Daniel MacAdam of Crosshair Silkscreen Design.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, Arts, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Daniel MacAdam, Crosshair Silkscreen Design, Heron Oblivion, Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, Ryley Walker & Bill MacKay, Beat Kitchen

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Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2016
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No Delusions documents the sprawling history of Chicago hardcore

Director Steven Cergizan has been working on the sprawling, detailed No Delusions since 2010.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Film, Music, hardcore, hardcore punk, No Delusions, No Delusions: A Chicago Hardcore Documentary, Steven Cergizan, Beat Kitchen, Tony Brummel, Victory Records, Brian Peterson, Los Crudos, MK Ultra, Charles Bronson, Fall Out Boy, MP Presents, Brian Peterson, Fireside Bowl, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2016
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The band with the 'worst name ever' play a reunion show Saturday

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start isn't just a Konami cheat code—it's also the name of an emo-influenced indie-rock band reuniting at Beat Kitchen.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, UUDDLRLRBAS, Evan Weiss, Pet Symmetry, Beat Kitchen, emo, 12 O'Clock Track, I'm Growing Out, The Internet EP, Video

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Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2016
Quenchers bookers Phantom Note say good-bye with a three-day festival

The Phantom Note Phinale hits Quenchers this weekend with Rad Payoff, Boss Fight, Dog & Wolf, Blizzard Babies, and lots more.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, Do This, Phantom Note Phinale, Phantom Note, Quenchers Saloon, Logan Square, music, Sam Edgin, Josh Hastert, Space Blood, Malort, Emporium, the Burlington, MP Presents, House Call Entertainment, Fireside Bowl, Beat Kitchen, Subterranean

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