Everybody in the club stop getting tipsy for two seconds because we're talking about yet another busy weekend for Chicago music. Buzzing all over our radar screens are the 10th Annual CHIRP Record Fair, Distractions/Distortions Fest, a free show by JC BROOKS & The Uptown Sound plus so much more. As Gwen Stefani once said, what (are) you waiting for? FRIDAY DASTARDLY It's rock and roll happy hour over [...]
There's a limit to how much you can cram into an unexpected work trip to Berlin, but I managed an " alternative Berlin " walk, 45minutes in the Modern Art Gallery, a record shop, a few aimless meanders and mass Karaoke session in Mauerpark. Or rather I missed a mass Karaoke session as I had a flight to catch. Going by Youtube it's a sight to behold, the full bearpit packed with a raucous crowd urging on the amateurs as they murder the popular classics (check out Prince "Kiss" & Sir Mixalot "Big Butts [...]
When we were writing out Top 10 Open Mics in Chicago feature last month, one that were planning to include was the 20hzx20kHz open mic held by West side Chicago independently run art space Quennect4 . Unfortunately, shortly before the post was to go up, we learned that Quennect4 had been forced to shutter its doors in January by the city after four years of being a performance venue for local artists. Well, the fine folks who run Quennect4 are not going away so easily. They've started a massive fund raising effort to [...]
Originally we had included Quennect4 's open mic, 20hzx20kHz, in our list of Chicago's finest. Then we learned that Quennect4 had been forced by the city to close its doors after over four years of giving local artists a place to show their skills. But, after all those years of hard work the good folks at Q4 are not willing to go down easily. And here's where you come in: they're asking for donations, which can be easily pledged at their Kickstarter page . [...]
To celebrate 50 quality releases on the Project Mooncircle label out of Germany, the guys are giving away a free 50-minute mix! The past seven years have seen Project Mooncircle release hip-hop and electronic tracks from over 30 artists, including; John Robinson, Robot Koch, Lewis Parker, CYNE, Obba Supa and Evil Ed. Quality and integrity have [...]
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