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Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • Smashing Pumpkins released their ninth album Oceania last week to mostly postive reviews ( Consequence of Sound | Pitchfork | Chicago Tribune ). Will the Billy Corgan bashing end now? Not if we have anything to say about it . • Windy City Rock's Gene Wagendorf III checked out the scene at [...]

Chicago's Wicker Park was the place to be this warm weekend as it hosted the free Green Music Fest. Local vendors and craftsmen lined the streets offering unique, green and organic fare. In addition to the booths, two stages were set up on opposite sides of the park and hosted a variety of national and local bands. Genres included everything from rock to reggae. Danish indie rock duo The Raveonettes closed out the fun festivities. Check out Green Music Fest in photos below:

SYBRIS AT DO-DIVISION 2010 Do Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Music Festival seem overwhelming? Well, if you live in Chicago (or are visiting!), you're in luck as nearly every weekend this summer there's a local street festival that features a buzz-worthy music lineup. So here are 12 street fests that you might want to check out this summer... DO-DIVISION Now in its sixth year, this street fest is a smorgasbord of activity from live [...]

High sixties this week? SEVENTIES next week? Looks like it's about time we start talking summer street fests. One of our favorite local fest is Green Music Festival because of its environmental-friendly approach and their awesome eco-friendly vendor village. Well wouldn't you know it, Green Music Fest announced the dates AND headliners for the 2012 edition. The fest once again is set to rock that pretty little face of yours as Dinosaur, Jr. are set to give you tinnitus on Saturday, [...]

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • Greg Kot profiles local supergroup Bloodiest, and we find out that Bruce Lamont joined because Bloodiest wasn't metal . • Time Out Chicago's photos from Day 1 of Green Music Fest in Wicker Park . • The Lawrence Arms dominated the Chicago Reader's Best Of Chicago 2011 Reader's Poll taking the top spot for [...]

BLOODIEST | Photograph by Saverio Truglia Summer is in full swing and there are plenty of outdoor activities to satisfy your musical lust including two chances to picnic outside the Logan Square Monument and watch some sexy local rock provided by the likes of Rabble Rabble or Califone and Bloodiest . As if that could be enough, adrenaline-pumping indie rockers Les Savy Fav are in town. There's so much rock, we'll have to start a new pile. Let's get to it, shall we? [...]

Holy Springtime, Batman! Eighty degrees, eh? Not long now until we hit the dog days of summer, and you know what that means: Street Fests! Huzzah! Some of the bigger festivals - Do Division, Wicker Park Fest and Green Must Fest - have already announced their initial music lineups. So, we thought it might be a good idea to update you on who's playing. • DO-DIVISION STREET FEST kicks the summer off with a bang on Saturday, June 4, through Sunday, June 5 on Division between Damen [...]

My mother recently completed a graduate-level course on the subject of waste. She and her classmates visited landfills and processing plants, studied green architecture, and picked up lots of shocking factoids. (Did you know green-colored garden hoses have traces of lead in them? Did you know that you might have been accidentally poisoned as an infant with a mercury thermometer?) That being said, once she found out I would be attending the 2010 edition of Chicago’s Green Music Fest , she insisted that I learn everything I could and, while I was at it, pick up some biodegradable plastic [...]

Maps & Atlases (Photo by Drew Reynolds) Hey Chicago! Once again: Thanks so much for voting for us for in the Chicago Reader's Best Of Chicago 2010 Reader's Poll. WE WON ! Oh yeah! You can celebrate in our name at plenty of show this weekend including three chances to catch Maps and Atlases , My Gold Mask at the Hideout , The Melvins at the Double Door and more! Let's get to it, shall we? [...]

First off, if you're in Chicago (I don't know, I assume some of you are in Chicago, call me crazy) you should pay some mind to Green Music Fest this weekend. I went last year and it was pretty awesome! I first heard one of my favorite local bands there, Sybris , (they're playing Millennium Park on July 17) and some other great music as well and the people and food and facilities were just wonderful. So support the second annual effort, won't ya?! My most adored, Maps & Atlases are playing as well as all the [...]

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Chicago summer festival season is right around the corner - as if the crazy high 80-degree weather in May didn't clue you in already - and we've got some festival lineup updates. We've already told you about Wicker Park Fest , Do-Division Street Fest and the second annual Metronome Celebration . Now here's the scoop on Taste Of Randolph and the Green Music Fest lineups. Taste Of Randolph, Friday, June 18, through Sunday, June 20, at 900 W. Randolph in [...]