Jan 30, 2025
I love a good record store, and for this episode, I’m focused one of the greatest record stores in Chicago history: The Flip Side.
The Flip Side: Where Chicago Rocked is a new book about the birth, innovation, success and eventual end of the Flip Side chain. To talk about the book, I’m joined by co-author...
Jan 26, 2025
I’m a sucker for broody, synthy, hooky post-punk, and that’s
what you’ll get on the debut from Milwaukee band Seances. The
album, “Power is a Phantom,” comes out on February 13th, and I’m
joined for lunch by Eric Arsnow -singer, bassist, founder of
Seances.
We recorded outside Poochie’s in Skokie (3602...
Jan 25, 2025
Kansas-based singer/songwriter Aud Whitson is about to release her stark, authentic EP, “A House That Can’t Get Quieter,” on February 7.
I caught up with her while she was in Chicago to talk about her songwriting, as well as the very DIY method she used to record the EP - voice memos on her iPhone.
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Jan 20, 2025
The fairly obscure, cult favorite, 70s Chicago prog band, McLuhan may very well be the least likely band to have entered 2025 with a string of live dates … but here we are.
50+ years after the release of their debut album, “Anomaly,” it’s getting a second life with a repressing/rerelease and the band is doing...
Jan 17, 2025
Liar’s Club (1665 W. Fullerton) is set to host two fundraisers for victims of the L.A. fires: Friday, January 24, and Sunday, January 26.
The Friday event, featuring Local H, Viceroy and Tuff Sudz, is sold out. The Sunday event, featuring Handcuffs, Jon Langford and more TBA, will go on sale soon (keep an eye on...