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Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jan 14, 2021
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A memorial to Alejandro Morales

His death doesn’t just leave a hole in Chicago’s DIY music scene—it’s a loss to community activists, to affordable housing advocates, and to countless friendships.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Alejandro Morales, Alex Morales, Alejandro José Morales-Aponte, RIP, memorial, tribute, obituary, Malagüez, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Running, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan, PPPMMM, Cookie, Rories, Yagalith, Falta de Juicio, Ono, Willo, Dianid, Spitshine, Muncie, Ball State University, Keith Helt, Pan y Rosas Discos, Defeat the Hydra, Josue Aguilar, Nicole Miller, Catholic Tapes, Dream Root Recordings, Kim Gordon, The Noise Paintings, P. Michael Grego, Travis, Arvo Zylo, Mister Fuckhead, Dawei Wang, Matthew Hord, Jeff Tucholski, Brett Naucke, Ben Billington, Parsley Flakes, Maria Jenkins, Reversible Eye Gallery, Loto Ball, Brandon Davis, Indian Jewelry, Vaguely Ethnic, Wake Up Applauding, Permanent Records, Castle Face Records, John Dwyer, Thee Oh Sees, Marian Tsikalas, Matt Urban, John Clark, Bobby Burg, Smith’s Night, Mark E. Smith’s Night, the Fall, Guided by Voices, Que4 Radio, Alien Lanes, Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation, Resurrection Project, Whitney Johnson, Matchess, Ryley Walker, Luca Cimarusti, Luggage, Annihilus, Zack Weil, Oozing Wound, Lawrence Peters, Haley Fohr, Circuit des Yeux, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, San Jose Obrero Mission, affordable housing, Josh Condon, Glyders, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 5, 2021
Chicago’s DIY rock scene mourns Alejandro Morales

With his generous spirit and boundless enthusiasm, Running’s drummer was the beating heart of a vibrant community.
- By J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Alejandro Morales, Running, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan, Ono, the Fall, Puerto Rico, obituary, memorial, RIP, died, American Dreams Records, Jordan Reyes, Matthew Hord, Resurrection Project, Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation, Bickerdike, Ryley Walker, Luca Cimarusti, Brett Naucke, Empty Bottle

Blogs, Bleader Jan 25, 2018
This guy loved Mark E. Smith more than you ever did because he got a Mark E. Smith tattoo

And he lived in Berwyn.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Archive Dive, Music, RIP, Mark E. Smith, The Fall, tattoo, Berwyn, Cliff Doerksen, Patrick Cornolo, Speakeasy Custom Tattoo

Blogs, Bleader Jan 24, 2018
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Mark E. Smith, the acerbic voice of influential Manchester postpunks the Fall, dead at 60

Mark E. Smith's inimitable sneer was a lacerating antidote to mediocrity for more than four decades.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, RIP, Mark E. Smith, the Fall, punk rock, Rowche Rumble, Cruiser's Creek, Brix Smith Start, How I Wrote 'Elastic Man', A-Sides 1978-2016, RIP, obituary, died, postpunk, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 20, 2017
Postpunk oddballs the Bonemen of Barumba played ‘barbecue music from hell’

Early-80s weirdos the Bonemen of Barumba attacked pigs' heads with axes onstage and shared a label with Big Black and the Dead Milkmen.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Bonemen of Barumba, Pop Group, Birthday Party, postpunk, Mark Panick, Jeff Jordie, Magnetic Dogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 64th St. Wild Things, Tom Jonusaitis, Zorro DuPont, Club 950 Lucky Number, Fever Records, Big Black, Dead Milkmen, Tuts, Exit, Metro, Alien Sex Fiend, the Fall, the Cramps, Jello Biafra, John Peel, Steve Albini, Driving the Bats Thru Jerusalem, Hedden West, Iain Burgess, Sub Pop 7, Icons, Marty Busca, Tom “Scarecrow” McNamara, Sex Kittens, Spies Who Surf, Chac Mool, Black Friars Social Club, Razorhouse

Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2015
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Listen to one of British postpunk's greatest moments

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is an underground classic by Manchester's Blue Orchids.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Blue Orchids, The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain), "Bad Education, " Martin Bramah, Una Baines, the Fates, 12 O'Clock Track, the Fall, Video

Music, In Rotation Jul 29, 2015
Oozing Wound drummer Kyle Reynolds on the perfect balance of noise and techno

Plus: Running drummer Alejandro Morales on his favorite Spanish noise-pop band, Reader drummer Luca Cimarusti on a forgotten local power-pop treasure, and more
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: In Rotation, Molly, Peach Melba, The Kind, Permanent Records, Cheap Trick, Minbal, Alejandro Morales, The Running, Rev//Rev, Triangulo de Amor Bizarro, Victoria Mistica, The Fall, Sub-Lingual Tablet, Kyle Reynolds, Oozing Wound, Dome, Wire, Container, Ren Schofield, Sam Nigrosh

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2015
Discover the spooky underground folk rock of the Fates

An obscure tune from the solo album by a group led by Una Baines, a founding member of the Fall and the Blue Orchids
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Fates, Furia, Uma Baines, Martin Bramah, the Fall, Blue Orchids, British post-punk, "Sheila/She Beats in My Heart, " 12 O'Clock Track

Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2015
Guy detectives continue to have all the fun on Backstrom

Two ambiguous detective types lead two very different shows.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, backstrom, the fall, Jamie Dornan, bbc2, fox, rainn wilson, house md, hugh laurie, gillian anderson, fifty shades of grey, detective, murder, crime, law & order

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2014
True Detective is criminally great

HBO's new series is not a typical crime show (not that you'd care if it were).
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, HBO, True Detective, Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, The Fall, The Killing, AMC, BBC Two, crime, murder, thriller, serial killer, Nic Pizzolatto

Music, In Rotation Dec 30, 2013
In Rotation: Rebecca Valeriano-Flores of Negative Scanner on time traveling with the Fall

Plus: Composer Estlin Usher on Spektral Quartet's classical cassette, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on Speedy Ortiz, and more
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: In Rotation, Constellation, Kevin Warwick, Thee Oops, Slovenly, Speedy Ortiz, Kluster, records, 45s, singles, punk, indie rock, Conrad Schnitzler, albums, Rebecca Flores, Rebecca Valeriano-Flores, Negative Scanner, Video, The Fall, Total Punk, sonatas, Sergei Prokofiev, Estlin Usher, WFMT, Spektral Quartet, Constellation, John Zorn, Mike Reed

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2013
BBC2's The Fall delves into double lives

Everyone leads double lives, but especially serial killers.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Film, Small Screen, bbc2, bbc, the fall, gilian anderson, jamie dornan, small screen, television, belfast, northern ireland, serial killers, murder

Film, Artist on Artist Mar 12, 2013
Artist on Artist: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants nerds out with Abraham Levitan of Shame That Tune

"For somebody who grew up on a healthy diet of five hours of TV a day, it’s just an interesting show."
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Artist on Artist, John Flansburgh, Adele, the Fall, Stephen Malkmus, Glee, Kalamazoo, Iowa City, Lansing, East Village, The New Yorker, The New York Times, MySpace, GarageBand, John Linnell, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Pyramid Club, Mick Jagger, They Might Be Giants, Canada, Grimes, I've Got a Match, They'll Need a Crane, Nanobots, Idlewild, Megaforce, Abraham Levitan, Yale Whiffenpoof, Baby Teeth, The Last Waltz, Shame That Tune, Brian Costello, Hideout, Piano Power, Barbara Bush, Lebanon, Lindsay Lohan, Public Enemy, Flavor Flav, Australia, Flavor Flav, New Kids on the Block, Fear of a Black Planet, John Linnell, The S1Ws, New York City, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Bomb Squad, Apollo 18, Milli Vanilli, East Village, Mary Boone, Tony Shafrazi, Steve Buscemi, CBGB, Danceteria, Violent Femmes, R.E.M., 10,000 Maniacs, Replacements, Husker Du, Our Band Could Be Your Life, the Polyphonic Spree, Spin, Louisville, Kentucky, Almost Famous, Kim's Video, Car and Driver, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, No Regrets, Eartha Kitt, Jonathan Coulton, Midnight Train to Georgia, the Vic

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2011
Now playing: Immortals

Indian director Tarsem Singh flounders badly with his follow-up to The Fall.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Tarsem Singh, The Fall, 300 movie, Henry Cavill, Theseus, Mickey Rourke, King Hyperion, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Joseph Morgan, Stephen Dorff, John Hurt, Greek mythology, action movies

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2010
Is That Mark E. Smith on Your Trapezius?

Spotted in Berwyn.
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Style, Chicagoland, Music, Mark E. Smith, tattoo, tattoos, The Fall, Berwyn

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Brixton Academy (and London Coffee Quest)

Pavement plays four nights at the Brixton Academy, and Jeremy tries to complete his disloyalty card.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Food & Drink, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Disloyalty Card, London, Brixton Academy, Gwilym Davies, Flat White, Monmouth, St. John's Bread and Wine, Nude Espresso, Taylor Street Baristas, Stinking Bishop & Jersey Royals, Pitch 42, Espresso Room, Maroush Lebanese, Monocole Magazine, Oliver Spencer, Universal Works, Tina, We Salute You, Climson and Sons, All Tomorrow's Parties, Monotonix, Whiskey, the Fall, Faust, Chainsaws, Omar Soliman, Venom P. Stinger, good times

Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2010
Derek Erdman's Music Fest Anthropology

Derek Erdman compares hipsters and juggalos. Guess which side he comes down on?
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Pitchfork Music Festival, Gathering of the Juggalos, MTV, the Fall, hipsters, indie rock, juggalos

Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2009
Worlds Collide

Rick Moody on Led Zeppelin
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Led Zeppelin, Rick Moody, Mick Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth, Dave Simpson, the Fall, The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of the Fall, classic rock, criticism

Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2009
This week's movie action

New films by Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven), Francois Ozon (Under the Sand), Christian Petzold (Yella), Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book), and Max Farberbock (Aimee & Jaguar).
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Movies, Film Festivals, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box, Silent Light, the Fall, Facets Cinematheque, John Malkovich, The Great Buck Howard, Silent Light Reygadas, Silent Light Carlos Reygadas, Japon, Battle in Heaven, Sunshine Cleaning, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Duplicity, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Knowing Nicolas Cage, Knowing, Knowing movie, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, I Love You, Man, European Union Film Festival, Serbis, Angel Francois Ozon, Angel, Francois Ozon, Kristian Levring, Fear Me Not, Christian Petzold, Jerichow, Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching, Max Farberbock, A Woman in Berlin, Tarsem, The Fall Tarsem, The Fall movie

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2008
Mark E. Smith, Blake and the Auto-Didactic Opposition to Scientific Materialism

Would you believe an academic conference on the Fall?
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Academia, the Fall

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His death doesn’t just leave a hole in Chicago’s DIY music scene—it’s a loss to community activists, to affordable housing advocates, and to countless friendships.

With his generous spirit and boundless enthusiasm, Running’s drummer was the beating heart of a vibrant community.

And he lived in Berwyn.

Mark E. Smith's inimitable sneer was a lacerating antidote to mediocrity for more than four decades.

Early-80s weirdos the Bonemen of Barumba attacked pigs' heads with axes onstage and shared a label with Big Black and the Dead Milkmen.

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is an underground classic by Manchester's Blue Orchids.

Plus: Running drummer Alejandro Morales on his favorite Spanish noise-pop band, Reader drummer Luca Cimarusti on a forgotten local power-pop treasure, and more

An obscure tune from the solo album by a group led by Una Baines, a founding member of the Fall and the Blue Orchids

Two ambiguous detective types lead two very different shows.

HBO's new series is not a typical crime show (not that you'd care if it were).

Plus: Composer Estlin Usher on Spektral Quartet's classical cassette, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on Speedy Ortiz, and more

Everyone leads double lives, but especially serial killers.

"For somebody who grew up on a healthy diet of five hours of TV a day, it’s just an interesting show."

Indian director Tarsem Singh flounders badly with his follow-up to The Fall.

Spotted in Berwyn.

Pavement plays four nights at the Brixton Academy, and Jeremy tries to complete his disloyalty card.

Derek Erdman compares hipsters and juggalos. Guess which side he comes down on?

Rick Moody on Led Zeppelin

New films by Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven), Francois Ozon (Under the Sand), Christian Petzold (Yella), Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book), and Max Farberbock (Aimee & Jaguar).

Would you believe an academic conference on the Fall?

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