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Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 22, 2019
Local punks Droids Blood add new variety to their dark, deranged hardcore

Plus: Chicago-bred rapper Open Mike Eagle makes a return visit with a fresh EP, and DJ Kool Hersh drops the expansive mix Attack of the Chicago Boogie.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Broken Prayer, Droids Blood, Scott Plant, Nick Donahue, Ceaușescu’s Dream, Unreality, Burlington, Riesgo, Sin Orden, Los Crudos, Primitive Teeth, Compressions, Open Mike Eagle, Pitchfork Music Festival, What Happens When I Try to Relax, Auto Reverse, Ruby Hornet, Digital Freshness, Closed Sessions, Fess Grandiose, Ness Heads, Star Creature Universal Vibrations, Kool Hersh, Attack of the Chicago Boogie, Boogie Munsters, Wild Prairie Vinyl & Vintage, Alex G, Night Moves, Jesse Sandwich, Tim Zawada, Shazam Bangles, Tone B. Nimble

Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 10, 2017
Great Chicago label, meet great Chicago band: Trouble in Mind signs Facs

Plus: Local shops celebrate Cassette Store Day with exclusives and in-store performances, and the Eradicator take a step up the D squash ladder with their self-titled album.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Facs, Disappears, Trouble in Mind, Bill Roe, Lisa Roe, Brian Case, Negative Houses, debut, Cassette Store Day, Jump Up, Curbside, Bucket O’ Blood, Logan Hardware, Shuga, Bric-a-Brac, Dark Fog, Ralph “Soul” Jackson, Grabbing Clouds, Already Dead, Dumpster Tapes, Girlsville, Boombox Sessions Vol. II, Danny Rebel, Droids Blood, King Tony, Tavi Veraldi, Poor Milk, the Eradicator, Eradicator, Kids in the Hall, Subterranean, Bong Mountain, Engines, “Richardson” Richardson

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 29, 2016
Chicago noise-rockers Rash light the fuse of their debut LP

Plus: Weirdo dance night Hot on the Heels celebrates ten years at Danny’s, and hip-hop writer Ben Westhoff talks west-coast rap at Volumes.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Rash, Skinner Box, High Fashion Industries, Torture Love, Bruges, Droids Blood, Broken Prayer, Beau Wanzer, Danny’s, Hot on the Heels, Confused House, Traxx, tenth anniversary, Steve Summers, Ben Westhoff, Original Gangstas, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, Volumes Bookcafe, Kevin Coval, Louder Than a Bomb, Tara Mahadevan

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