Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.
• The Chicago Reader has raised the ire of the Chicago hip-hop community with its recent cover story, “Scratch and Stitch,” about the relationship between Chicago rappers and the streetwear companies that release their music. The cover depicts local rapper ShowYouSuck with a circle over his face that reads: “Insert Chicago Rapper Here,” which many including ShowYouSuck (AKA Clinton Sandifer) interpreted that action as the Reader saying that all rappers are the same. Gapers Block has responses from both The Chicago Reader’s editor-in-chief Mara Shalhoup and ShowYouSuck about the controversy.
• The Congress Theater’s owners have filed a lawsuit against the city for what it calls an unfair crackdown on the concert venue’s ability to sell alcohol during concerts. Chicago Pipeline reported last week that the Congress’ general manager was taken into custody and charged with “failure to cooperate with police regarding illegal activity in a licensed premise and with violation of hours of operation.”
Experimental groovers Hollow Frames are back with another single entitled “Saddie Sadie” that will hook listeners before the band’s full-length album hits the streets in May.
Hollow Frames’ mastermind Fyodor Sakhnovski keeps the listener guessing, not wanting to be pinned down and painted into one genre’s corner. While Hollow Frames’ first single “Verge of Perception” had a Spanish, gypsy rock-infused electronica flare, new single “Saddie Sadie” bends toward the minimalist hip-hop spectrum.
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.
Three reasons to get reacquainted with your old friend, fun, tonight at Subterranean…
1. It’s impossible to resist a musical group that describes itself as band of “gypsy punks and Balkan pimps.” The description is not entirely inaccurate. BomBBone‘s lead singer Roni Bombboni is a native of Sarajevo who truly becomes the Bosian Elvis, with suit to match, when he jumps on stage. BomBBone can play hard and fast punk with funny lyrics about not wanting to kill Fabio now that the author bought a Casio, and traditional eastern European gypsy music with plenty of rock flare. WATCH: “bombbone.”
And now three reasons to forget the Bears ever even played yesterday and get to Reggie’s tonight…
1. The local and national hip-hop community waited about three years for The Cool Kids’ official debut, When Fish Ride Bicycles. And when it was release this past summer, fans were greeted with a very solid album featuring the Midwestern duo’s minimal digi-rhythms and gritty yet hook-filled rhymes. When Fish Ride Bicycles may not have been the game changer that the delay hype brought on, but it satisfied in it’s old school feel meets new school delivery. WATCH: “Bundle Up”
Generally, when I listen to Kid Sister, the word “menacing” never comes to mind, but on her track “Mickey,” off her new four-song EP Kiss & Tell, the Chicago-based MC gets pretty fierce.
As soon as you press play, the back beat thunders as Kid Sister’s flow pulses over the track. At times, “Mickey,” sounds and feels like a hip-shaking track by sultry electro-rocker Peaches, due to Kid Sister’s confident, larger-than-life attitude.
Chicago’s Rhymefest might have finally released his long awaited album, El Che, this summer, but he’s not quite done releasing new music just yet. His new song “Mermaid”, for which he held a contest for fans to create a photo-video, is a smooth and melodic electro-tinged jam. According Elchethemovement.com, Rhymefest states, “My new song “Mermaid” is about being with a beautiful woman who I can’t breathe with. Ultimately, she ends up killing me because she hates my world & I can’t live in hers.” Damn. Pretty dark stuff for one of his more poppy tracks. Anyway, check out the Bryan Carr & Francis Kmiecik-directed clip below:
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And now three reasons to forget the Bears ever even played yesterday and get to Reggie’s tonight…
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