Leor Galil
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Chicago Reader music writer imleor.carrd.co
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
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"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
ICYMI, I interviewed the organizer of Nitro-a-Go-Go, an unsanctioned music festival that covertly took place in six different outdoors locations around Chicago
Nitro-a-Go-Go severs the music festival from the music business - Chicago Reader
Photographer Braeden Long captured four of the six Nitro-a-Go-Go shows, not one of which was held in a conventional venue.
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My two favorite country musicians: "Alan Carrie" and "Underwood"
today on COYOTE: on ChatTJB, the "startup" "AI" "company" where one guy answers all of your prompts himself so that you stop giving your brain function over to LLMs. www.coyotemedia.org/chattjb-want...
ChatTJB Wants You to Stop Trusting LLMs
A San Francisco poet is answering your prompts badly, slowly, and earnestly.
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Chicago ghetto house producer DJ Flint died on Saturday according to DJ OpM, who cofounded Halsted Street Entertainment with Flint www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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I talked to Jonah Furman about Krill’s new life as a Chicago band
The resurrected Krill release their first song in a decade - Chicago Reader
Plus: First Presbyterian hosts an anti-ICE hardcore blowout, No I.D. headlines a spectacular night at the Ramova Loft, and more.
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You’re telling me major labels are selling shoddy product
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayA pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?
We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
“The entire festival was really inspired by anarchist ideals of public land usage… All the shows were unsanctioned by the city. Being able to carve out these spaces and times for people to share music, art, and community is extremely important…”
Nitro-a-Go-Go severs the music festival from the music business - Chicago Reader
Photographer Braeden Long captured four of the six Nitro-a-Go-Go shows, not one of which was held in a conventional venue.
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That’s right!!
Philip Montoro@pmontoro.bsky.social · 2d agoThe @chicagoreader.com has some counterprogramming to all the Lollapalooza roundups circulating today: Hallogallo scene photographer Braeden Long visited several shows during Nitro-a-Go-Go, an indie fest so resolutely DIY that it didn't use any conventional venues. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
ICE took Chicago’s DJ Tunjo outside Midway over the weekend
Donate to Help us free Santiago and David (Dj Tunjo), organized by Silvia Paez
On the morning of August 2nd, my brother Santiago Paez and brother in law Dav… Silvia Paez needs your support for Help us free Santiago and David (Dj Tunjo)
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Per Mike Reed’s IG, concerning the lawsuit over Pitchfork Fest funds
Busy day for ICE across Chicagoland. Reports of encounters with agents across the heavily Latine Chicago neighborhoods of Hermosa and Austin, and in the suburbs of Wheeling and Naperville. Rapid responders report at least 5 people detained this morning in Naperville; 1 person detained in Austin.
You know what’s a great financial choice? not spending any state money on this event
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2d agoWhile NASCAR is hoping to get the Chicago Street Race back to Grant Park next summer, it may have hit a speed bump in negotiations for a state grant to help defray costs for the event.
Rising to the occasion at Lolla *is* being an industry plant, scene interloper, and marketing manipulator
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 4d agoThe quartet has been accused of being industry plants, scene interlopers and marketing manipulators, but Geese rises to the occasion on Day 3 of Lollapalooza.
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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I am downtown and there appears to be some kind of Teen Takeover happening in Grant Park??
Thinking about the locals who will be cleaning porta-potties this weekend
The poop scoop on festival season - Chicago Reader
Service Sanitation porta-potties have become a ubiquitous sight at Chicago music festivals. And even if you don’t think you want to, you’re about to learn about the business that put them there.
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