Posts Tagged ‘music’

Amplified Test 2 – Mavis Staples

19Aug10

Staples at Lollapalooza in August. Photo by Kate Gardiner. Soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples has an album in the works with another Chicago home town hero, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. The two performed together at Lollapalooza; Staples later stopped by the station for a surprising duet with WBEZ’s Rob Wildeboer. (Did anyone else know he […]


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Rehabbed, A Punk Rock Dive Grows Up

30Jul10

Depending on whom you ask, the Fireside Bowl is either simply the bowling alley in Logan Square, or the best punk rock club Chicago ever knew. In its venue days it was falling apart. It was loud. It stank to high heaven, and the men’s bathroom had no doors and no seats. It was punk […]


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