Music
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Smashing Pumpkins to play Horseshoe CasinoAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago's Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin put out a new Smashing Pumpkins album ("Zeitgeist") last year, but have yet to play a gig in the band's hometown since revivi...
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Lollapalooza finishes big with Kanye West, Nine Inch NailsAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Lollapalooza wrapped up at Chicago's Grant Park on Sunday with its third straight day of sold-out attendance. An estimated 75,000 people from around the nation strolled ...
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Lollapalooza crowds inspired by Rage Against the MachineAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Day two of Lollapalooza closed Saturday with struggles, between both hometown heroes and between hometown fans. Long-running indie/roots rock combo Wilco ended the night...
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Radiohead, Duffy cut through Lollapalozza languor, heatAug 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Lollapalooza 2008 blanketed Chicago's Grant Park on Friday with sun-baked music fans. The sold-out crowd had a tough slog through the brutally hot day, the majority ...
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Lollapalooza's multiple stages force tough decisionsJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago got its own "destination" music festival in 2005, and ever since, Lollapalooza's organizers have tinkered with the formula. First, the fest expanded from taking ...
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'Falcon' worth buying for backstory alone -- but the music's good, tooJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Falcon, "Falcon" (No Office) One of the more remarkable stories in modern music, Falcon (not to be confused with the article-prefaced Lawrence Arms side project) is a c...
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Chicago's Cool Kids bringing retro hip-hop to LollapaloozaJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Remember the cool kids at school? They were the ones with style and charisma, seemingly endless resources and uncontested adulation. They were friendly with everybody, b...
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Guy's blues seep into 'Skin Deep'
Jul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Blues may be an ageless music, but most players ease into old age with relaxed grace. Not Buddy Guy, who sounds as distinctively piercing on "Skin Deep" as on his classi...
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Nothing of value in new Dylan DVD
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CSO shows surplus, but other groups falteringJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Professional classical music organizations seem to be in a perennial fight for financial security, if not survival. The 2008 economic slowdown has not helped, and we're ...