Music
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New (Hip-Hop) America at the MCA
Coming this Saturday, a conversation about how hip-hop is influencing media and culture on every level, and whether that’s always a good thing… New America: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Jeff Chang in conversation Saturday, February 28, 2009, 2 pm MCA Theater $10, $8 members, $6 students $6 with performance ticket for the break/s – the break/s…
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Black Merda? Black Rock.
The year is 1969 on the South Side of Chicago (21st & Michigan). Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess), has taken the helm at Chess Records (the Seminal Chicago Blues/Jazz/Gospel label). A fairly hip young cat, Marshall realizes that the hottest acts in popular music at the time borrowed (or gangstered) heavily from the roster at…
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Hip Hop’s Gospel Roots
Two genres that Chicago artists have left their indelible mark on, Gospel & Hip-Hop, were highlighted in this Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times, with a feature profile of Simeon Viltz from The Primeridian: From Sunday’s Sun-Times: February 22, 2009 BY DAVE HOEKSTRA dhoekstra@suntimes.com Like heavenly clouds, snippets of hip-hop rise from gospel music. “Simeon Viltz, who goes…
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Captain Sky on Soul Train
Captain Sky, also known as mild-mannered Chicago bass player Daryl Cameron, stated on the back of his first album (Adventures of Captain Sky): “Oh, by the way, if you’re wondering, Daryl Cameron somehow entered the phonebooth of his mind and emerged as Captain Sky. Tune in again”…. REALLY? (this might be unrelated, but I personally…
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The Equalizer is Coming…
Chicago-based Shala’s music is afro-punk/hip-hop/electro/freshness. For the uninitiated, here’s links to some samplings: get-yur-Shala.-here and here coming soon: Equalizer presents Shala. at Darkroom Time and Place Start Time: Friday, February 27, 2009 at 9:00pm End Time: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 2:00am Location: Darkroom Street: 2210 W. Chicago Ave. City/Town: Chicago, IL
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We the People (Who are Darker than Blue)
Curtis Mayfield performing “We the People” and “Gimme Your Love”, plus archival tape of folks vibin’ in various Chicago parks back-in-the-day. From the classic film “Save the Children” (1972). The film chronicled PUSH Expo ’72 (at the International Amphitheatre** in Chicago), touted as the biggest gathering of black business in history. When black power was…
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This Love’s For Real
This is a Local Chicago record also recorded by The Impressions (and written by Leroy Hutson). Very obscure. Very Lincoln-Continental-with-the-suicide-doors Gangster. Enjoy.
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Danger, She’s a Stranger!
The Five can’t-say-too-much-good-stuff-about-them Stairsteps recorded this petite cherie in 1967.
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