featuring LIZZO, JOHN MARK NELSON, PINK FROST, SONNY KNIGHT & THE LAKERS, TUGG, THE CLOAK OX, OSCILLATOR BUG, HUGH BOB & THE HUSTLE, YOUNGBLOOD BRASS BAND, VIC AND GAB, ASTRONAUTALIS, RYLEY WALKER, and ANNA VOGELZANG
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Also presented by Jonk Music, 89.3 The Current, The Turf Club, Vita.MN, Gimme Noise, and Chicago Reader
The past may be prologue, but for John Mark Nelson, the present is something else entirely: a gateway into a new era of life and the new sound that defines...
Read MoreSpurred by artists like Ty Segall and The Men, it’s been a great few years for unruly rock. This environment has made it really hard for mediocre bands to rise...
Read MoreVitality is defined as the power to live or grow, and perseverance pertains to the qualities of moving forward when an obstacle stands in your way. The music of soul...
Read MoreThe Cloak Ox is made of four staunch music-making Midwestern men. They are Andrew Broder, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Mark Erickson and Martin Dosh and their names may be familiar. Of course,...
Read MoreChicago’s analog synth melting psych-pop artist Oscillator Bug is like a force of nature in the age of climate change: unpredictable. Borrowing from the revolution-minded mass hallucinations of 60s psych...
Read MoreSinger-songwriter Hugh Robert Masterson grew up in Butternut, Wisconsin – a quaint but fading small town with decrepit mills, dirt roads, farms, beat down bars, and a population of 300....
Read MoreYoungblood Brass Band flouts convention in an ecstatic, raucous, incendiary fashion, taking the form of a New Orleans brass band and morphing it into a punked-out hip-hop behemoth of groove...
Read MoreMilwaukee-by-way-of-Texas sisters Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela started playing music together riding in the back seat of their dad’s car singing along to songs like “The Spirit of Radio” or “Walking...
Read MoreWhile Cut The Body Loose (2016) may seem like Astronautalis’ most aggressive album to date, to call it angry or pessimistic would be to miss the point. Named for an...
Read MoreRyley Walker currently resides in New York City. But his latest LP is a Chicago record in spirit. The masterful Course In Fable, the songwriter’s fifth solo effort, draws from...
Read MoreAnna Vogelzang has been making songs since 2000, playing them in public since 2003, and driving them around the country since 2007. Her melody-driven, multi-instrumental folk-pop ballads have been met...
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