Rererato is undergoing new management, but the former managers liked to think of the events that took place as private house gatherings that just so happened to be open to the public. Art showings, music performances, figure-drawing classes and TV-show productions have all occurred in the space that used to be a Hare Krishna temple.
To follow up on the venue’s status, check its website or MySpace page. For now, click onward for our DIY spotlight.
This week brings Winnepeg breakbeat deconstructionist Venetian Snares back to Chicago. If you can’t spot one of our editors catching him at Reggie’s Rock Club, you might find one or more watching the tight jam freak-outs of Family Order or the good-time Gypsy-rock marching tunes of Mucca Pazza.
This week, Sean-Michael Yoder has some new electronic jams to throw on that winter playlist. The list includes Justin Martin showing some maturity on his third release, the electro-house / UK funky / disco house of Agent 86, and a history lesson from the boys of Metro Area.
With cinematic soundscapes, engaging Indian melodies, film-noir mystique, 1960s psychedelia, and crushing heaviness, Grails is an instrumental rarity.
At the November 21st Dub Trio show, the crowd was thin, possibly because the band had already played Chicago several times this year. Although the initial hype may have settled, those in attendance actively anticipated the band’s third Subterranean appearance in 2008.
Who wouldn’t want to learn fan-dance techniques from Michelle?
Pummeling mid-tempo rock icons The Jesus Lizard will briefly reunite; idiosyncratic rapper Busdriver performs live with a jazz band tonight; minimalist folk group Phosphorescent has recorded a disc of Willie Nelson covers. Read on.
This week Sean-Michael Yoder brings us new music from Polish producer Marcin Czubala, Kaskade‘s OM Remixes, and the fourth album from LA-based duo I’m Not A Gun.
Shellac is an enigmatic, metallic-toned, minimalist rock trio that appears whenever it feels like recording a new album. The lyrics of guitarist/vocalist/engineer Steve Albini are just as untroubled, touching on anything from a prayer for two deaths to a catastrophic squirrel attack. Here are six of the group’s great lines.
With the growing list of punk-turned-roots acts (see Greg Graffin of Bad Religion’s excellent 2006 effort, Cold as the Clay, or anything John Doe of X and Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees have been up to for many years for further evidence…) one could assume that an acoustic singer/songwriter project is the going retirement plan for punks seeking solace from the hustle and bustle of crusty noise and leather.