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Vocalo.org's Jesse Menendez is bringing his Music Vox show to the Lone Star State for the South by Southwest Music Festival.

Wasalu Muhammad Jaco grew up in rough neighborhoods in and around Chicago, where crack addicts would pass out on his front stoop. But, while his friends were drifting in and out of jail, he joined the chess club and the academic decathlon at high school.

Chris Jones didn’t bother to push Rahm Emanuel to name the members of the arts and culture committee of his transition team during their exclusive chat last week, but Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times did get the scoop this morning.No disrespect to any of these folks, but the central concern of this

Last week happened to be a particularly crappy one for all three members of Vortis—sometimes, work just sucks—so it was with even more angst and pent-up frustration than usual that the band pulled up to Memories for a quadruple bill on Friday night.The group hadn’t played at this Portage Park wateri

Jim Nayder says:Despite it being Winter, Chicago had warm sunshine & temperatures. Unfortuantely, also "The Sun City Girls," who have sent Mrs. Jones into hiding . . .

In the early dial-up internet days, dot-com money was abundant, and MP3 was a relatively new term.

For months now, local DJs have been showcasing their technical and musical skills on Eight Forty-Eight in the DJ Series: A Spinning Season. The equipment they use ranges from turntables to CD players to laptops. But the overwhelming majority of them got their start on turntables.