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Concrete Blonde promotes new vinyl recording
Concrete Blonde is a group that has enjoyed enough commercial success (thanks to their 1990 breakthrough “Bloodletting” album and its MTV hit, “Joey”) to maintain a 30-plus year career, but not so much success as to spoil the “best kept secret” factor devoted fans of indie rock savor.
TUNES & TIX: New Zealand newbie, Soviet kitsch
Earlier this year, the single-moniker New Zealand songsmith Kimbra was poised as the next big thing the pop music world needed to get to know.
Reading heavy peace, hearing ragged glory?
Tunes & Tix “The weakness of an autobiography is the lack of perspective of the person whos writing it, so for that reason, I’ll never write an autobiography. Never,” Neil Young to biographer Jimmy McDonough, “Shakey,” 2002.
TUNES & TIX: Mike Watt, keeper of the indie flame
Customarily, it takes at least a decade of hindsight for the contributions of music icons to be singled out for praise and to receive props from subsequent generations of rock and pop movers and shakers.
TUNES & TIX: A regal visit
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OFFBEAT: Gene & Georgetti celebrating 70 years as Chicago's first Italian Steakhouse
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OFFBEAT: Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre nets 6 Jeff Non-Equity Awards with 'A Light in the Piazza'
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OFFBEAT: Under the Streetlamp a sizzling success with tour launch, Chicago Park West concerts
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Kennedy and Plain White T's headline Chicago conference
Waterkeepers from around the globe will assemble to cap off the Waterkeeper Alliance annual conference June 25 in Chicago with the group's president, Robert Kennedy Jr., headlining the event.
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