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- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
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Sabertooth celebrate 25 years of nocturnal renditions
The Jazz Festival honors the Green Mill’s resident wee-hours organ quartet in broad daylight.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2018
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Grateful Dead alumni Bob Weir and Phil Lesh closed out a tour last night at the Chicago Theatre
On the Bobby & Phil duo tour, the two founding Grateful Dead members stripped the band's songbook down to acoustic simplicity.
- Music, In Rotation Dec 12, 2017
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Nikki Hartel of Audiotree on a new way to fill out your Eurythmics collection
Plus: Mike Gebel of the Empty Bottle on Gyda Valtysdottir’s 2,000-year repertoire, Luca Cimarusti of the Reader on the best solo album from the Grateful Dead family, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2017
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Decades after Stumpwater put out their only single, the Aurora folk-pop group ride again
Dan Berg, Dan Haligas, and Joe Gloor released two songs in 1975 and split up in '80, but now they're back to writing, recording, and gigging.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2017
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Catching the game-winning rose on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by Austin-based artist Derek Hatfield.
- Music, In Rotation Jun 26, 2017
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Meat Wave drummer Ryan Wizniak on a deranged 1978 synth-pop masterpiece
Plus: Meg MacDuff of Bleach Party on a record so danceable it has its own energy drink, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on a long, strange film about the Grateful Dead, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2017
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Seventies wizard rockers Bad Axe made their posthumous recorded debut in 2014
Bad Axe got a regular gig thanks to Rahm Emanuel's mom and a belated vinyl release thanks to Permanent Records.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2016
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Logan Square Food Truck Social, Grace Bonney, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Grateful Dead Brunch, Open house Chicago, and other happenings from October 14-16.
- Music, In Rotation Sep 21, 2016
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Trevor de Brauw of Pelican on Nick Cave’s journey through grief
Plus: Anatomy of Habit’s Kenny Rasmussen on the addictiveness of vintage rap music, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on touring like a grown-up, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2016
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A 75-year-old’s fountain of youth? Skull rings, Grateful Dead T-shirts, and hair dye
“I‘m still 35, as far as I'm concerned,” Barb Jonesi says.
- Music, In Rotation Mar 8, 2016
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Jordan Reyes of Moniker Records on an album you’ll love to feel awful to
Plus: Pressure Group co-owner Tom Kenneally on music that sounds like the future in The Terminator, the Reader’s Luca Cimarusti on postpunk’s high-water mark, and more
- Music, In Rotation Dec 1, 2015
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Mike Weis of Zelienople on the perfect musical pain relievers
Plus: Steven Hess of Locrian on mind-bending death metal, the Reader's Luca Cimarusti on Jandek and John Mayer, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2015
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It's Bob Weir's birthday: Listen to some Grateful Dead
Check out one of the singer-guitarist's finest moments, "Jack Straw."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 12, 2015
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A lifetime of the Grateful Dead's skulls and roses on the gig poster of the week
This week's gig poster was created by renowned poster artist Emek.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 15, 2015
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Fare Thee Well to the gig poster of the week
This week's gig poster was designed by Alan Forbes and Camille Johnson for the Grateful Dead's final shows at Soldier Field.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2015
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See our photos of the Grateful Dead's Friday farewell show
Get a full look at the band's "Fare Thee Well" show without rubbing shoulders with strange Deadheads.
- Music, Music Feature May 7, 2015
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Chicago's underground rock scene remembers inspirational superfan Ray Ellingsen
He went to more shows than most folks half his age, and the people he supported and befriended honor his memory this month at the Empty Bottle.
- Arts & Culture, On Culture Dec 16, 2014
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The Auditorium Theatre: From wonder of the world to bowling alley and back
As Roosevelt University reduces its suburban campus, one of its prize assets celebrates 125 years.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 1, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Thu 8/1: Sunshine Daydream, Marc Maron, and Circles
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 1
- Music, Music Sidebar Jul 10, 2013
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Lincoln Square + roots music = the Square Roots festival
Fatoumata Diawara, Glenn Jones, Sallie Ford, Alasdair Roberts, Beto Jamaica, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2012
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A monthly Grateful Dead night, because why not?
Matt Kimmel and Joe Wetteroth host the Burlington's new monthly Grateful Dead night
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 25, 2011
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Back to school with Tim Kinsella, class of '93
"Sam stealing Owsley Stanley's car seemed like just the next logical thing"
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2011
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Legal Blues
Steven Lattimore explores the musical legacy and business struggles of the bluesman behind "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Big Boss Man" in his documentary "The Jimmy Reed Experience." It screens Tuesday 2/15 at Dominican University, along with a legal panel and jam session.
- Reader, Matches blog Mar 4, 2010
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I Used to Pass Him in the Halls
The self-portrait of the artist as a bad date
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2008
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Twenty-first century virtual chooglin'
The Dead come to Rock Band