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Music, Music Feature Apr 16, 2020
Remembering Chicago music champion Christen Thomas

She booked shows for a decade with the Empty Bottle and Metro teams, but that work was just the beginning of the love, joy, and support she showered on the local scene.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Christen Thomas, Jeff Rice, Empty Bottle, Metro, GMan Tavern, Cornerstone Promotions, the Fader, Vice Records, Pitchfork TV, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Glitter Creeps, Good Night Out, Shout Your Abortion, Richard Vain, Jered Gummere, Melissa Elias, Circles, Srini Radhakrishna, Storm Clouds, Salonathon, Queen!, Jane Beachy, Baathaus, Daan, Sean Tillmann, Har Mar Superstar, obituary, death, died, Ponys, Pink Frost, Handlebar, Adam Lukas, Tyrades, Jim McCann, Jim “Hollywood” McCann, Carbomb, Cathy Shenoy, Groveland, Adelphi University, Danny Wirtz, Wirtz Corporation, Breakthru Beverage Group, Black Lips, Daylight Robbery, Headache City, Joe Carsello, Pete Toalson, Outer Minds, Oozing Wound, Rabble Rabble, Matt Ciarleglio, Big Freedia, Brent Heyl, Absolutely Not, Feminist Advice From the City of Broad Shoulders, Anna Cerniglia, Ben Webster, Butcher Bear, Johalla Projects, Alison Green, Justin "Lugs" Wettstein, James Deia, Night Jammer, Talkeetna, Neil Diamond, White Stripes, Fairview Inn

Music, Music Feature Nov 29, 2017
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Gifts that sing—are you listening?

The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982), Parlophone, Bob Dylan, Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13/1979-1981, Columbia, Legacy, Fairport Convention, Come All Ye: The First Ten Years, UME, Hüsker Dü, Savage Young Dü, Numero Group, Roland Kayn, A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound, Frozen Reeds, Stack Waddy, So Who the Hell Is Stack Waddy? The Complete Works 1970-1972, Cherry Red, American Epic: The Collection, Legacy, At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight . . ., Bear Family, Atlantic Rock & Roll Series, Stateside, Atlantic, Teddy Wilson, Classic Brunswick and Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions 1934-1942, Mosaic, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Loren Schoenberg, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, Ben Webster, Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, Ivory Joe Hunter, Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, KWKH, Grand Ole Opry, National Barn Dance, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Horace Logan, George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Rose Maddox, Webb Pierce, June Carter, Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson, Elijah Wald, Nick Bergh, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Dock Boggs, Jimmie Rodgers, Harry Smith, Anthology of American Folk Music, Roots n’ Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950, Steve Albini, Byron Coley, Dr. Feelgood, Count Bishops, John Knail, John Peel, Dandelion, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, cybernetics, jazz, roots, Terry Katzman, Grant Hart, Bob Mould, Land Speed Record, Zen Arcade, Metal Circus, Everything Falls Apart, Erin Osmon, Andrew Batt, Richard Thompson, Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot of Love, The Basement Tapes, Amanda Petrusich, Ben Rollins, Trouble No More: A Musical Film, Spooner Oldham, Fred Tackett, Jim Keltner, Clydie King, Regina McCrary, Brian Eno, Berlin period, Low, “Heroes”, Lodger, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Oblique Strategies, Peter Schmidt, Tony Visconti, Stage, In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal, Sound and Vision, Fashion, Ashes to Ashes, Video

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Remembering Chicago music champion Christen Thomas

She booked shows for a decade with the Empty Bottle and Metro teams, but that work was just the beginning of the love, joy, and support she showered on the local scene.

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Gifts that sing—are you listening?

The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.

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She booked shows for a decade with the Empty Bottle and Metro teams, but that work was just the beginning of the love, joy, and support she showered on the local scene.

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The year’s best box sets include 11 CDs from David Bowie’s Berlin period, 529 tracks of vintage country from Louisiana Hayride, Roland Kayn’s 14-hour electronic masterwork, and the most complete portrait yet of Hüsker Dü’s early years.

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