The New Switcheroo are yet another new band from a very vibrant and diverse Chicago music scene; their sound is a combination of roots rock, folk and chamber pop with…
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Rob Ross
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An interesting piece; nine songs that, lyrically, paint a not-too-bright series of pictures, but with the quality of the performance and the production, it’s oddly appealing. Spearheaded by singer/songwriter Coley…
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Justin Vellucci
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This record begins with the uncontrolled wailing of guitar feedback and squalor, later joined by the gasps of a dying piano. And that’s a good place to start. Because, then,…
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Rob Ross
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Melodic, catchy, beaty and buoyant would be a good way to describe the sound of the Freddy Jones band, as personified by this new track, “Those Diamonds”, taken as the…
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Rob Ross
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Hailing from the Windy City, singer-songwriter Laura Joy offers up her sophomore effort – a five-song EP, Between Our Words. Low-voltage, lo-fi and warm, this is a fine mixture of…
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Pete Chianca
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”We Are The World,” the charity single to end all charity singles (except it didn’t), was recorded 30 years ago this week. It was an instant sensation when it was…
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Rob Ross
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This is excellent – pure and simple. Chicago singer-songwriter Brandon Cunningham delivers four absolutely stunning tracks on this latest E.P., Giveout. From sparse and haunting to lush and textured, this…
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Rob Ross
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Very nice and impressive mini-album from Honey & The 45s, a Chicago-based outfit. Mad is a smooth mixture of soulfulness, funky grooves and Americana (quite an achievement) with great production…
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Matt Wardlaw
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Richard Marx joins us to talk about his new album Beautiful Goodbye, writing songs with Ringo Starr and why it’s okay to break all of the rules.
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Justin Vellucci
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Let’s try, okay, to be objective for a moment. STNNNG, a Minneapolis art-punk quintet with its heart on its sleeve and a roar in its throat, is the best thing…
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Rob Ross
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Chicago-based singer-songwriter Andrew Belle, recently unwrapped his second full length album, Black Bear. The ten-track collection is awash in atmosphere and does have a “soundtrack-style” feel in many of the…
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Justin Vellucci
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It’s hard to write about Nonagon, a Chicago-rooted band whose latest pocket full of cuts and volts is a 12-inch EP titled The Last Hydronaut, without using words like blistering…
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Dave Lifton
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If the Replacements had played every concert as well as they did on Sunday night at Riot Fest in Chicago’s Humboldt Park, they would have been as big as they…
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Rob Ross
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This Chicago native makes his solo debut on Bar/None with The Year Of No Returning; a fine effort that immediately made me smile. This is a darkly funny album, intended…
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Chris Holmes
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A look at seven musicians who overcome serious injury or illness and rose to the creative heights of their profession.
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Dave Lifton
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A review of the tribute to Big Star’s “Third” album at Chicago’s Park West
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Dw. Dunphy
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Flashback looks over another of Chicago’s big hits and complains about ‘whatever happened to…’
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Popdose Staff
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For Chicago, to borrow from the Beatles and call it a “long and winding road” doesn’t even begin to detail the complicated history of the self-described “rock and roll band…
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Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw
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In the rock milieu, drummers are hardly ever famous in their own right; unless you happen to sing while you’re swinging the sticks, like Phil Collins or Don Henley (or,…
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Michael Fortes
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Could that new Chicago album that can stand tall with their best material finally be coming?
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Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw
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Matt and Jeff speak with Nat Osborn about his terrific new album, The King and the Clown
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Michael Fortes
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Taken together Chicago’s catalog is fascinating, frustrating, brilliant and awful all at once. Read on and judge for yourself.
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Matt Wardlaw
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Kevin Eubanks is a guy that you’re probably most familiar with because of his 15 year stint as the bandleader for Jay Leno and the Tonight Show and that’s okay….
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Brian Boone
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A new series in which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely…
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Keith Creighton
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I haven’t seen ANY of this year’s slew of “Best Picture” nominees. Besides the high price of tickets and parking, I simply can’t sit still while today’s over-indulged directors take…
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Chris Holmes
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Not a fan of Chicago? You may change your mind after hearing these ten tracks.
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Chris Holmes
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Just because a song gets stuck at #3 on the charts doesn’t mean it’s not an all-time great.
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J.A. Bartlett
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Wait, what? Chicago’s third single, “25 or 6 to 4,” was released in the summer of 1970, and it is flat awesome. It proves just how hard a horn band…
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Keith Creighton
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To say the shit’s about to get funky up in here is an understatement. “Lovely Generation” is a deep album cut from Another Country, the second album from Chicago…
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