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Three Beats: Kid Sister Everything jumps on the tape train | Chicago Reader

July 31, 2011 / Leave a Comment

Local punk label Kid Sister Everything released a five-song live EP by Fargo posthardcore band Animal Lover last week—its first cassette after four years of CDs and seven-inches. via Three Beats: Bassist Harrison Bankhead finally releases an album of his own | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. Live at Lemp Arts Center by Animal Lover

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: Chicago Reader, Kid Sister Everything, music, punk

Three Beats: Cloud Mouth plays a round robin | Three Beats | Chicago Reader

July 23, 2011 / Leave a Comment

Cloud Mouth start their long good-bye with a round robin via Three Beats: Cloud Mouth plays a round robin | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. Chicago postpunk trio Cloud Mouth will break up in the fall, and their round robin show is the first of many good-bye celebrations. Read more!

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: Chicago Reader, Cloud Mouth, music, punk, Three Beats

I’ll do it my way: Locals pick their jams for Saturday’s Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago event | Music | The A.V. Club Chicago

June 16, 2011 / Leave a Comment

I’ll do it my way: Locals pick their jams for Saturday’s Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago event | Music | The A.V. Club Chicago. Punk and karaoke, together at last. Here are some picks from Chicagoans for the second Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago.

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: A.V. Club Chicago, karaoke, punk, Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago

Justin Bieber and DIY: What's in a punk?

May 3, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Love Justin Bieber, but afraid to reveal it to your punk rock friends? Do you tell your friends that the music you’re blasting on your iPod is the latest pop sensation when it’s really Black Flag’s Damaged? Wish these two worlds could finally meet? Well, XLR8R and Exclaim! music writer and Grown Ups member Josiah … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Black Flag, Etsy, Hardcore punk, Hearty Magazine, Justin Bieber, Lily Allen, music, Myspace, OK Go, Pop music, punk, SST, Twitter, YouTube

Roger Ebert and The Sex Pistols in… a failed screenplay

April 26, 2010 / Leave a Comment

Late Sunday night, famed Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert posted one long article. Actually, it wasn’t so much an article as it was a screenplay. Ebert opened his vault and unloaded part of the script he wrote for a Sex Pistols-focused movie. Originally titled “Anarchy in the U.K.” and later retitled “Who Killed Bambi?,” the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Anarchy in the U.K., movie, music, punk, Roger Ebert, screenplay, the Sex Pistols, Who Killed Bambi?

Who's the American Idiot?

April 22, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The Green Day-inspired rock opera, American Idiot, is now open for business. And the reviews are good [via The New York Times]: A pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions — bring on the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, please! — only to transcend them through the power of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: ...is a Real Boy, American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day, Kidz Bop, Michael Mayer, MTV, music, New York Observer, punk, Say Anything, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times

The worst music criticism: A review

April 9, 2010 / Leave a Comment

I recently critiqued an article by Steve Almond that I felt unfairly and naively  lambasted music criticism. Almond wrote music criticism is pointless: I disagreed. And then I stumbled upon something that support Almond’s point 100 percent. I still don’t agree with what Almond wrote, but this piece of “music criticism” by Impose’s Jason Diamond … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Alternative Distribution Alliance, Brooklyn Hater, Dennis Lyxzén, Despair, Epitaph, Hardcore punk, hipster, Ian Svenonious, Impose, Integrity, Jason Diamond, music, music criticism, music journalism, Nation of Ulysses, punk, Refused, Steve Almond, Sub Pop, Subcultures, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Make Up, The Shape of Punk to Come, Unbroken, Warner Music Group

Black Flag's Chuck Dukowski and hardcore punk's garage sale

April 9, 2010 / Leave a Comment

A couple years back, Minor Threat drummer and Dischord Records co-founder Jeff Nelson decided to do a little spring cleaning. So, he did what any person looking to unload a whole lot of perceived junk would do: Sell it on eBay. Yet, Nelson wasn’t getting rid of, say, an old Tickle Me Elmo. Nelson began … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Black Flag, BLAST, Chuck Dukowski, Dischord, DIY, eBay, fIREHOSE, Hardcore punk, Jeff Nelson, Minor Threat, Negativland, Out of Step, punk, SST Records, Tickle Me Elmo, U2, Wasted Again

R.I.P. Malcolm McLaren

April 8, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The BBC is reporting that Sex Pistols’ svengali and artist-musician Malcolm McLaren has died: Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of punk group the Sex Pistols, has died in New York, aged 64, his agent has said. There have been a lot of famous pop music managers over the years, but none like McLaren. Though the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: British, Duck Rock, Glen Matlock, John Lydon, Kill Bill Vol. 2, London, Malcolm McLaren, music, New York Doll, punk, rock, the Sex Pistols

The Dillinger Escape Plan live at Reggie's Rock Club

April 4, 2010 / Leave a Comment

The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s reputation precedes the band. The mathcore quintet is (in)famous for their chaotic live sets, which are known for hosting waves of crowd-surfing and leaving members of the crowd and/or band with a broken bone or two. Such a legendary live performance might explain why the crowd Friday at Reggie’s Rock Club … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: Ben Weinman, Billy Rymer, Chicago, Greg Puciato, hardcore, Jeff Tuttle, Liam Wilson, mathcore, metal, metalcore, music, New Jersey, Option Paralysis, punk, Reggie's Rock Club, The Dillinger Escape Plan
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