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Music
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Music Feature
Apr 10, 2019
Video
Remember resale shops this Record Store Day
Thrift and vintage stores are among the best places to find vinyl that nobody’s even thought of reissuing yet.
By Leor Galil
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Music Feature
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Record Store Day
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Light in the Attic
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Dreamin’ Wild
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Donnie Emerson
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Joe Emerson
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Searching for Sugar Man
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Rodriguez
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Ariel Pink
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Jack Fleischer
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thrift
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vintage
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resale
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secondhand
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Dusty Groove
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Goodwill
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Brown Elephant
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Brown Elephant Resale Shop
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Village Discount
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Village Discount Outlet
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Pilsen Vintage & Thrift
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Paul Guizar
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Charly Garcia
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Sonorama
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Discos Joey
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Niteskool Project
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Howard Brown Health
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Party Bat
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Kokorokoko
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Ross Kelly
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Sasha Hodges
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Newbury Comics
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Delle Del & Jamin Jack Starling
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DJ International
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Basement Records
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Chicago Lawn
,
Back of the Yards
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Andersonville
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Wicker Park
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Pilsen
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Lola Dee
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Bel-Aire
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Downtown Sound
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Music Company
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Another Man’s Treasure
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Another Man’s Treasure Resale
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Wilburn Green
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Ambrosia Room
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MFSB
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Full Force
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U-Haul
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Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 31, 2016
Here's the lineup for the new Millennium Park Summer Music Series
The city's new free summertime concert series replaces Downtown Sound and Made in Chicago.
By Leor Galil
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Do This
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Music
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Millennium Park Summer Music Series
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Downtown Sound
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Made in Chicago
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Makaya McCraven
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Lee Fields
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DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation
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Phil Cohran's Summer Solstice Ensemble
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Homme
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Sinkane
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Jose Gonzalez
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Femi Kuti
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Probcause
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Lower Dens
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Blonde Redhead
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 29, 2015
Here's the Downtown Sound lineup for 2015
Downtown Sound swallows up Loops & Variations and extends to Mondays and Thursdays this summer.
By Peter Margasak
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Do This
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Music
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Post No Bills
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Downtown Sound
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Pritzker Pavilion
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 29, 2014
More summer concert news: City announces Downtown Sound lineup
The lineup for the wildly popular Millennium Park concert series is revealed.
By Peter Margasak
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Music
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Post No Bills
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Downtown Sound
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Millennium Park
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Pritzker Pavilion
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Russian Circles
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Colin Stetson
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Richard Thompson
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Omar Souleyman
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Robbie Fulks
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Maps & Atlases
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Pillars & Tongues
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Noura Mint Seymali
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Wooden Shjips
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Joe Pug
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Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub
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Hurray for the Riff Raff
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Bob Mould
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Split Single
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My Brightest Diamond
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White Mystery
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 2, 2013
City announces 2013 lineups for Downtown Sound, Loops & Variations, and Made in Chicago
What's scheduled for some of this summer's best free concert series.
By Peter Margasak
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Music
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Post No Bills
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Downtown Sound
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Loops & Variations
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Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
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Jack McLarnan
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Carlos Tortolero
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Lee Ranaldo
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Marc Ribot
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Sharon Van Etten
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Speck Mountain
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Glen Hansard
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Daniel Lanois
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Brokeback
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Carolina Chocolate Drops
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Angela James
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Lee Fields
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Theo Huff
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Dawes
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Cairo Gang
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Fatoumata Diawara
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Alasdair Roberts
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Handsome Family
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Azita
,
Dessa
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Psalm One
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Falty DL
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Bill Kouligas
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Matmos
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Fonema Consort
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ICE
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Nosaj Thing
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Dan Deacon
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Eighth Blackbird
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Glenn Kotche
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Lesley Flanigan
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Olaf Arnalds
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Sarah Neufeld
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Jeff Parker
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Dee Alexander
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Nels Cline
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Dana Hall
,
Pat Mallinger
,
Cameron Pfiffner
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Jack DeJohnette
,
Victor Garcia
,
Henry Threadgill
,
Muhal Richard Abrams
,
Roscoe Mitchell
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 18, 2012
The full schedule of summer concerts in Millennium Park
The full schedule of free concerts this summer in Millennium Park includes Charles Bradley, Deerhoof, and Ana Tijoux—but no weekday lunchtime series.
By Peter Margasak
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Music
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Post No Bills
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Downtown Sound
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Loops and Variations
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Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
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Music Without Borders
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Millennium Park
,
free music
,
summer
Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 29, 2012
RIP: Music Without Borders
The great world-music series Music Without Borders is missing from the city's announcement of Millennium Park's summer programming.
By Peter Margasak
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Music
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Post No Bills
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Millennium Park
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Pritzker Pavilion
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Music Without Borders
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Michael Orlove
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Downtown Sound
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Loops and Variations
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Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
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summer
,
free concerts
Music
,
Gossip Wolf
Mar 30, 2011
Gossip Wolf: The Blackout’s Back
A first look at HoZac’s lineup for the party you won’t remember. Plus: Tyler Jon Tyler on Shameless, David Daniell’s comp for Japan, and more
By Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
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Gossip Wolf
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Horizontal Action
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Blackout
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Hozac Records
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Nobunny
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The Spits
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Idle Times
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K-Holes
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Reading Rainbow
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Brides
,
Mickey
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Heavy Times
,
Outer Minds
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Radar Eyes
,
Super Wild Horses
,
Tyler Jon Tyler
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David Daniel
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Antiopic
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The Ex
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Fennesz
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
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Grouper
,
Prefuse 73
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Sam Prekop
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Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
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Twilight Singers
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Big Star
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Lungfish
,
Skull Defekts
,
Zomes
,
Millennium Park
,
Downtown Sound
,
Iron & Wine
,
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
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Ted Leo + the Pharmacists
,
Low
,
Seefeel
Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 24, 2011
Millennium Park's Downtown Sound Series Announces Lineup
Millennium Park's Downtown Sound series announces its lineup.
By Kevin Warwick
Tags:
Crickets
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Music
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Free Shit
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Swag
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Downtown Sound
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Millennium Park
,
Pritzker Pavilion
,
Low
,
Blonde Redhead
,
Ted Leo
,
Seefeel
,
Iron & Wine
,
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
,
free
Blogs
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Bleader
May 17, 2010
Chicago's Best Music Venue: Millennium Park
Nothing in Chicago can compare with this summer's music offerings in Millennium Park—and every show is free.
By Peter Margasak
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Music
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Free Shit
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Post No Bills
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Swag
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Millennium Park
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Omar Souleyman
,
Tortoise
,
Toumani Diabate
,
Red Baraat
,
Downtown Sound
,
Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
,
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
,
Dusk Variations
,
Portland Cello Project
,
Clare and the Reasons
,
Raul Jaurena
,
Red Stick Ramblers
,
Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 18, 2010
Early Warnings Roundup
This week's Early Warnings include Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Dengue Fever, the Dutchess & the Duke, Iron Maiden, Kings of Leon, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and Three 6 Mafia.
By Kevin Warwick
Tags:
Crickets
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Music
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Early Warnings
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Empty Bottle
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First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
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Chicago Blues Festival
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Iron Maiden
,
Black Joe Lewis
,
Charlotte Gainsbourg
,
Quintron
,
the Dutchess and the Duke
,
Kings of Leon
,
Three 6 Mafia
,
Dengue Fever
,
Downtown Sound
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 14, 2009
Shellac subs for Rokia Traore in Millennium Park
Shellac meets the masses: Malian thrush Rokia Traore cancels her August 10 concert in Millennium Park; Steve Albini's trio steps in.
By Peter Margasak
Tags:
Music
,
Post No Bills
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Millennium Park
,
Shellac
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Rokia Traore
,
Downtown Sound
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