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Cover Story: Neko Case

Cover Story: Neko Case

| February 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

Neko Case Time Won’t Let Me In order to reach Neko Case via phone, you have to dial the least-populous time zone in the continental United States. You must reprogram yourself and remember your scheduled 3 p.m. Mountain Standard Time interview means not calling at 2 p.m. Chicago time like it would be when calling […]

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Queen & Paul Rodgers

Queen & Paul Rodgers

| February 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

Queen Is Dead, Long Live Queen The idea of a legendary band continuing without its original lead singer is by no means new. It’s been adapted by everyone from stadium rockers INXS, Journey, and Chicago’s own Styx to the slightly modified monikers of psychedelic superstars The Doors Of The 21st Century and The Dead. On […]

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Shelley Short

Shelley Short

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Shelley Short O Captain My Captain Coming here was a very intense time,” Shelley Short says about uprooting her life from Portland to Chicago in September 2004. “I moved here with a friend and another close friend lives here that I’ve known since high school, so I wasn’t all alone, but I left a lot […]

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Belle And Sebastian

Belle And Sebastian

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Belle And Sebastian Everybody’s Talkin’ “We’ve been around for 10 years, but I don’t really feel like we’re an old band. At the moment, we feel quite new and current. And I think we are reaching a lot more people. I think, to a lot of people, we are a new group.” — guitarist Stevie […]

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Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Rhett Miller Couldn’t Leave If He Tried “If I’m not mistaken, I cannot only do the Old 97’s in the future — y’know, doing shows and albums. Obviously we won’t do an album a year, an album every two years, even, like we did at one point. But I think we’ll be able to continue […]

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Low Skies

Low Skies

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Low Skies Democracy In Action Chicago’s Low Skies aren’t in line to win any Kid’s Choice awards, nor will they ever with the musical path they’ve chosen. Swirling around Chris Salveter’s tangled-in-the-sheets headgames, the new All The Love I Could Find (Flameshovel) skulks like a fog, limiting vision to a sea of minute reflections forlornly […]

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LongShot

LongShot

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Longshot Sure Fire When Chicago’s ever-eager Longshot was getting ready to record his third album last year, this MC/poet (legally known as Chad Heslup) made a decision most hip-hop acts would write off as flat-out ludicrous: He put his own album on the backburner to help out his fellow Chicago hip-hoppers. Even while under contract […]

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Hank III

Hank III

| February 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

Hank III Spittin’ Image Shelton Hank Williams, or Hank III as he’s better known, will be excited to see his new record, Straight To Hell (Curb), on store shelves, but excuse him if he won’t allow himself to become too enthusiastic. “Yeah,” he says with a thick Southern drawl, “I’ll believe it when I see […]

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Q&A: Blackie Lawless

Q&A: Blackie Lawless

| February 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

Hello, My Name Is Blackie IE: If you were to release “Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)” today, would it be met with more or less controversy? Blackie Lawless: That’s difficult to say because the first impression has obviously already been established. That’s impossible for me to say, but I don’t think things have changed that […]

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SXSW, T. Rex, Juvenile

SXSW, T. Rex, Juvenile

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

MR. FORSTNEGER GOES TO AUSTIN If you get bored from the 15th through the 19th, head on down to Austin, TX, for South By Southwest. You won’t be lonely, all of the following Chicago bands will be there: Office, The M’s, Owen, Puerto Muerto, Chris Mills, a Flameshovel Records showcase featuring Bound Stems, Lying In […]

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March DVDs!

March DVDs!

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

The Constant Gardener Universal There’s no denying the price of prescription drugs is out of this world. What is often overlooked is the cost to bring those drugs to the market. Sure, it may cost the pharmaceutical company pennies to make the pills it offers, but it costs upwards of half a billion to bring […]

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Stop, Thief!

Stop, Thief!

| February 28, 2006 | 3 Comments

Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering The Fisk University-Library Of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 is an important book. Edited by writers Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, it introduces an unpublished manuscript by Fisk University professor, composer, and musicologist John Wesley Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel Adams. The three Fisk scholars had […]

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Who, What, When, Why, Where

Who, What, When, Why, Where

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

At ARS STUDIO in Alsip, Larry Schara mastered the latest project for Tee & Company, Live From Joliet 2, and continued tracking with #Jock Hardy# for his latest Disney project . . . Schara also tracked choir vocals for Vishawn Mitchell‘s upcoming CD . . . Jennifer Highland tracked, mixed, and mastered for the Charles […]

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At Least Joan Cusack Hasn’t Ditched Us (Yet)

At Least Joan Cusack Hasn’t Ditched Us (Yet)

| February 28, 2006 | 1 Comment

Like “Soul Train,” the band Chicago, and the writers of the Broadway hit “Urinetown,” Ira Glass and his innovative public radio show “This American Life” are packing up and leaving town for greener pastures.

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Pick Like Satriani

Pick Like Satriani

| February 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

M-AUDIO Sputnik Microphone Home studio boffins looking for boutique-quality sound on a project/studio budget (who isn’t?), should find M-Audio‘s Sputnik ($899) an exceptional value. Sputnik is M-Audio’s flagship mic — a true large diaphragm vacuum tube condenser mic, with a sound the company claims “rivals the best microphones on the planet.” In this price range, […]

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