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- Music, Three Beats Nov 21, 2012
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Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap at Metro
Plus: Disappears play Rainbo for a bartender shot in the face, and Dusty Groove returns to the reissue biz with Real Gone
- Music, Three Beats Nov 2, 2012
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Three Beats: Absolutely no twinklecore at the Swerp Records showcase
Plus: Cajmere and his Cajual label on a new British comp, and the Neon Marshmallow Festival tries getting small
- Music, Three Beats Oct 22, 2012
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Three Beats: Netherfriends cuts a bedroom-pop record (almost) live at Schubas
Plus: Art-rockers Ono release their first album in 26 years, and So Percussion founder Doug Perkins moves to Chicago
- Music, Three Beats Oct 22, 2012
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Three Beats: Netherfriends cuts a bedroom-pop record (almost) live at Schubas
Plus: Art-rockers Ono release their first album in 26 years, and So Percussion founder Doug Perkins moves to Chicago
- Music, Three Beats Oct 8, 2012
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Three Beats: Yakuza keeps spreading out on Beyul
Plus: The Spektral Quartet gets cozy with the U. of C., and the Captcha label helps beef up the sound program at ACRE
- Music, Three Beats Sep 24, 2012
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Three Beats: The WZRD DJ lockout grinds on
Plus: Joshua Abrams goes full guimbri, and Emperor finally introduce their amp heads
- Music, Three Beats Sep 4, 2012
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Three Beats: Local nonprofit the Lost Childhoods uses hip-hop against youth violence
Plus: Dusty Groove clears out its basement with a 50-cent sidewalk sale, and Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis opens his show at Public Works
- Music, Three Beats Aug 6, 2012
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Three Beats: The first Thirsty Ear
Plus: An old-school death metal lesson from Master, and DJ Tony Trimm finally drops his first album
- Music, Three Beats Jul 17, 2012
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The noise scene's lost Enemy, a trumpeter's growth spurt, and one schmaltzy goodbye
Good-bye to Baby Teeth and experimental-music venue Enemy, hello to young trumpeter Marquis Hill
- Music, Three Beats Jun 11, 2012
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Three Beats: MC Legit drops a free song every Saturday
Plus: Drummer Frank Rosaly claims his Puerto Rican roots with Bootstrap, and power-ambient group Chord make a "country" album
- Music, Three Beats May 21, 2012
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Three Beats: A live Empty Bottle compilation gets a proper release party
Plus: Corbett vs. Dempsey sprouts a full-grown reissue label, and a Yakuza documentarian turns to Kickstarter after a decade of work
- Music, Three Beats May 8, 2012
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Three Beats: Ben Vida plays inside your head
Plus: Naledge takes on two records and a master's in social work, and Bobby Broom's first album of originals
- Music, Three Beats Apr 23, 2012
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Three Beats: A "mature" new record from Bible of the Devil
Plus: Ghost peppers with Gas Mask Horse, and award-winning Chinese classical music at the Cultural Center
- Music, Three Beats Mar 26, 2012
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Three Beats: A prepared-piano preview of A John Cage Festival
Plus: A posthumous party for incredible string man Sandy Bull, and an eighth-birthday bash for punk label Underground Communique
- Music, Three Beats Mar 12, 2012
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Three Beats: Cellist Tomeka Reid steps out with Hear in Now
Plus: Super Minotaur hit the ground running with their first LP, and Lord Mantis outdo their vile debut with Pervertor
- Music, Three Beats Feb 29, 2012
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Three Beats: Deiphago play their first U.S. show at a Chicago metal fest
Plus: Sally Timms’s bizarre first recordings resurface after three decades, and Johnny Love returns to “reeducate” Chicago partiers
- Music, Three Beats Feb 16, 2012
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Three Beats: BBU talk about working with GLC: “Yeah, he’s a pimp”
Plus: A new EP might finally get Absolutely Not noticed, and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm works well with Europe
- Music, Three Beats Feb 2, 2012
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Drummer Tim Daisy writes for dance troupe the Seldoms
Plus: New releases from young MCs Rockie Fresh and Calez, and a benefit celebrating the late Mat Arluck of Sweet Cobra
- Music, Three Beats Jan 19, 2012
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Three Beats: Bassoonist Katherine Young returns to Chicago with Pretty Monsters
Plus: Life Partner works through a rough patch with Dogs, and R&B duo The-Drum tangles with wurkstep originators Sich Mang
- Music, Three Beats Jan 5, 2012
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Three Beats: Alex White and Righteous Love repay a favor from God
Plus: Drummer Ben Billington goes solo with the synthy Quicksails, and MC ShowYouSuck throws another one-man pizza party
- Music, Three Beats Dec 15, 2011
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Three Beats: The Old Town School preps new digs and digs into its past
Plus: Chrome Waves roll in, Vic’s Drum Shop invents a holiday, and Lovely Little Girls end a three-year hiatus with a new lineup
- Music, Three Beats Dec 1, 2011
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Three Beats: Andrew Bird and Ian Schneller transplant Sonic Arboretum
Plus: ICE talks nonjazz improvisation, and Chicago hip-hop meets a Swedish doc about the American black power movement
- Music, Three Beats Nov 17, 2011
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Three Beats: After 46 years, Roscoe Mitchell’s first session sees the light of day
Plus: Local bands help launch the quarterly journal The Land Line, and Haymarket Riot supports a doc on the Haymarket police memorial
- Music, Three Beats Nov 3, 2011
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Three Beats: Matt Baron tours first grade as Future Hits
Plus: Netherfriends release the midwestern dozen from 50 Songs 50 States, and full-time goofball Chris Ligon celebrates a new album
- Music, Three Beats Oct 20, 2011
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Three Beats: Haptic plays a piece inspired by Saturn's rings
Plus, the drool-inducing Russian Circles and Astrobrite returns!
