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The summers of my youth were endless; filled with Now-and-Laters and Boston Baked Beans candy. Play-fighting and foot races. Pick-up games of softball in the parking lot of the J.J. Brodsky & Sons Warehouse at 73rd and Kimbark.

On this week’s Global Notes, Jerome and Radio M host Tony Sarabia listen to the new album, Mumtastic, by the eclectic New York outfit Tareq Abboushi & Shusmo.

Pitchfork didn’t mention Odd Future in its press release announcing that it has invited domestic violence groups, rape victims advocates, and gay rights groups into this weekend’s festival, but several other Chicago media outlets have followed this blog in making the connection crystal clear in rece

This week on Global Notes, Damian Platt, co-author of the book Culture is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro, tells us about the favela-born group AfroReggae.

In the 1930s, Gene Autry was working as a "singing cowboy" on the Chicago radio show National Barn Dance when he caught Hollywood's attention."He got an audition and got a bit part in [In Old Santa Fe], a Western in 1934, and unbelievably the ideas that came from this Western ...

Chicago's Joffrey Ballet is planning to lock out its dancers this week over labor negotiations.The Joffrey sent a letter to its dancers telling them to clean out their lockers and turn in their keys by Thursday.

It’s been nearly a year since Eight Forty-Eight began the Friday DJ Series and many of the DJs that come through the studio cited Hank Shocklee as one of their major influences.Shocklee burst on the scene in the late '80s as part of the production crew the Bomb Squad, he helped mak