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The City of Chicago doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to nurturing one of its greatest treasures: the music community. Read More

In 1987, Chicagoans Jennifer Fisher and Julia Adams opened the Lounge Ax, a tiny club in Lincoln Park at 2438 N. Lincoln Ave. An unassuming, bare-bones entertainment venue, the club was located across the street from the famed Biograph Theatre, where John Dillinger met his fate 53 years earlier. Read More

Messrs Lukowski and Bloomfield offer up their final reflections on the last day of the last ATP festival the last ten years. Read More

As Friday waned and Saturday waxed at ATP's ten years bash, so tardy reviewer Andrzej Lukowski joined the doughty Philip Bloomfield in reporting on the weekend's musical happenings for YOUR pleasure. Read More

Having Double Dagger's third album More here opening the list has me realizing that this year was in fact a pretty decent year for music, at least for me. Read More

The City of Chicago doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to nurturing one of its greatest treasures: the music community. Read More

A decade after the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival was first formulated by Scots indie outfit Belle & Sebastian as the Bowlie Weekender, it hasn't become any easier to explain to people. Read More

Robbie Fulks, the gangly singer, songwriter and flat-pick guitarist who became well known to Island audiences during a series of rollicking shows he played here a few years ago, will return to Vashon this weekend with a new duet partner in tow. Read More

The snows of the New Year began to recede in February , only to be replaced by a hail of controversy and a flood of disputes. Read More

Stories of seasonal goodwill are increasingly rare these days, especially ones that involve the US postal service, Santa Claus and legendary producer Steve Albini. Read More