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I last bumped into Diane Izzo with her husband Marco Zas on the street—I wouldn’t swear to it, but I think it was in Austin at South by Southwest, and I’d guess it was a year or two ago—and she wouldn’t stop profusely thanking me for the tiny blurb I’d writ

Marea Stamper has been involved in the Midwest’s underground rave and dance scene since her early teens. That’s a world that kind of skirts around the edges of the law.

Let’s hope we’ve got the guy wrong. Rahm Emanuel is, after all, a major Wilco fan. He was devoted early on to ballet, winning a scholarship to the Joffrey, so music and the arts obviously once were a driving force in his life.

Mayor Elect Rahm Emanuel will be joined by some new faces at City Council. And 14 aldermanic races appear to be headed for April runoffs. We know some of the winners and losers, but what does it all mean?

While Chicago awaits the results of the biggest news happening today, what say we distract ourselves by catching up on some music-related reading via some links I’ve been meaning to share?1.

 And part of the problem is that, unconscionably, no one else in the Chicago media has been asking the questions.As first reported here on Feb.

For nearly two decades, music producers Kevin Johnson and Aaron Smith have been joined at the hip-hop intersection of beats and samples. They started out in Rubberoom- one of the best-known crews of the 1990s.