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ISIS show tonight!
Beat Kitchen has just announced ISIS will perform tonight, September 19th, at 10 p.m. following their gig last night opening for Tool. Tickets are $12; Yakuza opens.
Guitar Center Drum Contest
Hit The Skins Rush drummer Neil Peart names his solos, which we find disturbingly pretentious. So promise us if you win Guitar Center’s Drum Off 2006 you won’t get a big head about it.
BT Goes Visual At Landmark
BT Goes Visual At Landmark Electronic stud BT (Brian Transeau) has weaved an erratic path in his 12-year career, from crafting epic house music, frollicking with teen popsters *NSYNC and Britney Spears, finally landing in film scores for Monster. Now he’s making the films himself.
Eat Books For Cutie
826Chicago is hosting a reading fundraiser featuring Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and NPR superstar Ira Glass.
88 Keys, 100 names
Buddy Guy and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds will be at a special ceremony on August 23rd where they will lend their signatures to a traveling piano.
Hawthorne Heights Sue Victory Records
Hawthorne Heights Sue Victory Records Alleging “overly aggressive, unethical, and illegal schemes and tactics” enacted on the band’s unwitting behalf, rock band Hawthorne Heights are suing Chicago punk label Victory Records and owner Tony Brummel to terminate their contract and collect unspecified damages.
Heartland Turns 30!
Heartland Turns 30! Heartland Café, the iconic Rogers Park restaurant/live music venue, turns 30-years old this week. We say it doesn’t look a day past 21.
IE Radio!
IE Radio! Beginning this weekend, August 5th, Access Radio will begin airing “Chicago Entertainment,” so you can get your Illinois Entertainer on the air!
Velvet Lounge Reopens
Jazz fans, your wish has been granted. The Velvet Lounge is back. The famed club owned by Chicago free jazz musician Fred Anderson opened its new doors for the first time on Friday (July 28th) with a show by Isaiah Spencer & Friends and also hosted concerts the 29th and 30th. The Velvet Lounge now […]
Movie Fundraiser
Baldwin Brothers Host Film Fundraiser Chicago’s bespectacled lounge funk cats Baldwin Brothers and Letter Blue Productions are trying to assemble greenbacks for Snap, about the “rise, fall, and redemption of a Webmaster who launches the world’s first and most famous amateur adult Web site.”
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Mock ‘Em
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, MOCK ‘EM Rockapalooza at the Arcada Theatre: Call it the Lollapalooza of tribute bands.
Learn To Write!
Chart Topping Songwriter To Host Chicago Workshop Jason Blume, who has written or co-written songs for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and Colin Raye, will be in the Chicago area on Saturday, July 15th for a writing workshop.
Battle For Bands
Vote For Lollapalooza’s Final Band The Lollapalooza organizers have devised an online vote to determine the final roster invitee for the festival, August 4th to 6th in Grant Park.
IN MUSIC WE TRUST
IN MUSIC WE TRUST The life of local musician Anthony Salazar, who died in May 2005, will be remembered and celebrated Sunday, June 25th with a special benefit show presented by chicagoCO-Lab, an online forum developed as a means for Chicagoland musicians to network.
Charitably, Come
We’ve done this story way too many times: A well-liked, well-known local musician is blind-sided by some sort of medical emergency — be it disease or accident — that leaves him laid up in a hospital. And because he’s a working musician, there is no health insurance.
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