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Alternately giddy and profound, veering from braggadocious to comically self-deprecating, and equal parts slacker pothead and street philosopher, on his second mixtape Acid Rap, Chance the Rapper paints the most complete portrait of young male African-American life on the South Side of Chicago since Kanye West gave us The College Dropout in 2004.

Facing a long list of code violations in Cook County Circuit Court Thursday, venue owner Eddie Carranza was once again given the "all’s clear" to stay open.

Unapologetically announcing that I was going out on a limb with a chainsaw, in our post-South by Southwest episode of Sound Opinions, I expanded on this blog’s earlier hyper-enthusiastic gush about the young London-based quartet Savages (I saw god and/or Savages) by declaring, “

Though the Deleterious Impact/Public Nuisance hearings can be credited—or blamed, depending on your perspective—with increased scrutiny of the Congress Theater over the last 15 months, signs that the Department of Building Affairs would let embattled owner Erineo “Eddie” Carr

Think before you post in the digital age, because Big Brother is always watching. 

Last year around this time, listeners called into my other show on WBEZ called the Morning Shift for a Cinco de Mayo grito throw down.

Asked to assess the most important part of the legacy of long-running English art-punks Wire, most fans will cite the quartet’s first three albums. But a new album and book are strong summations of the legendary art-punks’ legacy.