Why are Chicagoans sitting at home and live-tweeting obnoxious performances on television when they could just walk down the street and see a great live band right in their neighborhood?
Richard Giraldi is the Editor-In-Chief of Chicago's "hyper-local" music blog Loud Loop Press. The Blog has been in existence for two years and in 2010 won Chicago Reader's Best Chicago Music Blog Award.
Aja Monet is an award winning and internationally recognized performance poet. Her debut EP "Scared To Make Love / Scared Not To" is out with all proceeds benefiting her relief work in Haiti.