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Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2018
Brigid Mae Power at the Empty Bottle, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

David Parr's Cabinet of Curiosities and more goings on 7/9-7/12.
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Music, Film, Do This, David Parr, Cabinet of Curiosities, Wild Strawberries, The Golden Girls, Yob, Our Raw Heart, Brigid Mae Power, Empty Bottle, Angels Wear White, Reggie's Rock Club

Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2018
Chicago Doomed & Stoned Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

A screening of Full Metal Jacket in 35mm and more goings-on 6/1-6/3.
- By Katie Powers
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Film, Music, chicago doomed & stone festival, wonder years, concord music hall, full metal jacket, filmworker, music box, ric wilson, banba, lincoln hall, waiting for godot, druid theatre, chicago shakespeare theater, juno, diablo cody, tully, jason reitman, stories of the body, mother teresa, the ready, reggie's rock club

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2017
Video
The Eradicator is a squash man—and a punk band

As the Eradicator, Chicago hardcore veteran Andy Slania parlays a decades-old Kids in the Hall sketch into a living, breathing punk band.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music, Sports, Do This, Eradicator, Kids in the Hall, the Eradicator, I'm a Squash Man, Suicide Machines, Reggie's Rock Club, Direct Hit, Andy Slania, Stonewalled Records, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2017
Stranger Things dance party the Upside Down, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Hyde Park Flea Market, the 100th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby, and other happenings from August 25-27
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, stranger things, heaven malone, hideout, sarah sherman, helltrap nightmare, markus crane, clusterfuck cup, reggie's rock club, hyde park flea market, slow food farm roast, local foods, jack king kirby, challenger comics, planet chicago, navy pier, dance, vintage, diy, malort, wrestling, comedy, music

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2017
Video
On ‘Lay Down,’ rising rapper OMB Peezy balances his native Alabama with his adopted home in California

Recent 300 signee OMB Peezy, who plays Reggie's on Thursday, is being hailed as a new avatar of regional rap—and his breakout single shows how distinctive he can be.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Hip-Hop, Music, OMB Peezy, Lay Down, 12 O'Clock Track, 300, Sacramento, California, Mobile, Alabama, Reggie's Rock Club, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2017
Bit Bash’s Filthy Pixels, Taco Fest 2017, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Presidents' Day Benefit Dinner, TRL Live, and more happenings from February 20-23.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Presidents' Day Benefit, Saved By the Max, Ladylike, Cafe Mustache, Taco Fest 2017, Mago Cantina & Grill, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Reggie's Rock Club, One-Minute Play Festival, Den Theatre, Filthy Pixels, Bit Bash, Bottom Lounge, Hyperception: Illusions for the Sense, Lincoln Park Zoo, TRL Live, Hideout

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2017
Trayvon Martin’s parents on their book Rest in Power, Brown Girls premiere, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Metal from Lordi, Joffrey Ballet's Game Changers, and more happenings from February 13-16
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Fake News, Buzzfeed, University of Chicago, Erotica Exotica Poetica, Hideout, Women on Top, pH Theater, Lordi, Reggie's Rock Club, Brown Girls, Chicago Art Department, Farewell Father Friend, Newberry Library, Joffrey Ballet, Game Changers, Rest In Power, The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, First United Methodist Church, Sybrina Fulton, Tracy Martin, Benefit for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Township

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
DJ Oreo talks about footwork, booking a Chicago party from Australia, and Sunday’s birthday battle with Elz the DJ

West-side native DJ Oreo throws himself a birthday party at East Room on Sunday that doubles as an informal turntable battle with his best friend—and then he hits the road with Lil Yachty.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, DJ Oreo, Oreo Fest, Elz the DJ, Hip-Hop Summer Fest, Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa, ZMoney, Katie Got Bandz, G Herbo, Lil Herb, Save Money, Leather Corduroys, Joey Purp, Kami, Saba, Dlow, footwork, FootworKINGz, Heat Squad, Teklife, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, East Room, Reggie's Rock Club, Portage Theater, Thalia Hall

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 23, 2016
Readers' Poll
Best hip-hop club
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Double Door, The Promontory, Reggie's, Reggie's Rock Club, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2015
Video
Buried at Sea celebrate the reissue of Migration with their second Chicago show in ten years

Chicago drone-doom veterans Buried at Sea play Wednesday at Reggie's to support a new release of their only full-length album.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Do This, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Buried at Sea, Sanford Parker, Jason Depew, Brian Sowell, Bill Daniel, Brandon Pierce, Migration, War Crime Recordings, Heavy Cream Records, doom, metal, Reggie's Rock Club, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
Video
Two Converge-Cave In side projects come to town this weekend

Mutoid Man plays proggy psych-metal on today's 12 O'Clock Track.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Mutoid Man, Reggie's Rock Club, Bleeder, Sweet Ivy, Stephen Brodsky, Ben Koller, Converge, Cave In, Old Man Gloom, Heavy Metal, hardcore, supergroup, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 10, 2015
Singer-songwriter Jennifer Hall celebrates her first studio material in four years

Plus: Alex Barnett and Faith Coloccia collaborate again, Electric Hawk play a release party for their long-awaited second album, and more.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Jennifer Hall, In This, Subterranean, Alex Barnet, Mammiffer, Faith Coloccia, Weld, Blackest Ever Black, II, Electric Hawk, Noah Leger, Mike Burns, Graham McLachlan, Sweet Cobra, Empty Bottle, Seth Engel, Lifted Bells, Coaster, Options, Driftwood Metaphor, Tony Molina, Twin Peaks, Hurt Everybody, Fake Shore Drive, Reggie's Rock Club, Before the War, Twin Peaks, Hurt Everybody, Fake Shore Drive, Reggie's Rock Club

Blogs, Bleader Oct 6, 2014
Best shows to see: Don Giovanni, Suffocation, Steve Gunn

The best shows to see on Mon 10/6 through Wed 10/8
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, best shows to see, Don Giovanni, Suffocation, Steve Gunn, Schubas, Reggie's Rock Club, Lyric Opera, Civic Opera House

Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 23, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Fame spotting at the Pitchfork Music Festival

Plus: Taylor Bennett's antiviolence fund-raiser for Kids Off the Block
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Pitchfork, White Mystery, Alex White, Thor Harris, Twin Peaks, Cadien Lake James, Dum Dum Girls, Diiv, Zachary Cole Smith, Sky Ferreira, Oshwa, Alicia Walter, Chris Crack, MC Tree, Sulaiman, Save Money, Joey Purp, Taylor Bennett, Noname Gypsy, Pugs Atomz, SPF420 cofound, SPF420, Chaz Allen, Kendrick Lamar, Sharkula, CHIRP Record Fair, Reggie's Rock Club, Kids Off the Block

Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2014
Reader's Agenda Wed 7/9: Taste of Chicago, Weedeater, and Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, July 9
- By Will Greenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Taste of Chicago, Connie's Pizza, M Burger, Smoke Daddy, Harold's Chicken, Janelle Monae, Jeff Tweedy, Emmylou Harris, Grant Park, Weedeater, Vukari, Marmora, Dirt Church, Reggie's Rock Club, Gene Siskel Film Center, Gore Vidal

Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2014
Best shows to see: Stirrup, Geronimo!, Weedeater

The best shows to see on Mon 7/7 through Wed 7/9
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, Best shows to see, Stirrup, Weedeater, Geronimo!, Township, Charleston, Reggie's Rock Club, Paul McCartney

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best rock club

Empty Bottle
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2014, Best rock club, Empty Bottle, Reggie's Rock Club, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best hip-hop club

The Shrine
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2014, The Shrine, Reggie's Rock Club, Best hip-hop club, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2014
Black Flag literally played a concert for children

Photos from the moment when everybody gave up
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Whoa, Music, Black Flag, hardcore, punk, Reggie's Rock Club, Glitter Guts

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2014
Reader's Agenda Tue 6/17: Black Flag, Tuesdays on the Terrace, and Theater Oobleck

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, June 17
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Black Flag, Reggie's Rock Club, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuesdays on the Terrace, jazz, Al Carter-Bey, Richton Guy Thomas, Theater Oobleck, the Hideout, The Life and Times of Jewboy Cain: Jewboy Rejux, Jewboy and Grosbeck

Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2014
Reader's Agenda Wed 6/11: Juvenile, the Dunk Contest of the Century of the World, and "Mesopotamians, Those Fantastic Foodies"

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, June 11
- By Will Greenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chris Crack, Sicko Mobb Kit, Supreme Cuts, Juvenile, Reggie's Rock Club, Comdey Sportz, Ben Larrison, Sheryl Swoopes, The Dunk Contest of the Century of the World, University of Chicago, Atorina Zomaya and the Assyrian Kitchen, Mesopotamians Those Fantastic Foodies

Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2014
Reader's Agenda Mon 6/2: Pride Performance Series, Peep Show, and D.R.I.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, June 2
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Pride Month, About Face Theatre, Pride Performance Series, Greenhouse Theater, Jonathan Tolin, The Last Sunday in June, Michael Urie, Ryan Spahn, Striding Lion, Links Hall, Peep Show, Honey Pot Performance Group, Adriana Durant, Striding Lion Performance Group, James Falzone, Reggie's Rock Club, D.R.I., SVLPHVRVS, Spare Change, Dead Split Egos

Blogs, Bleader May 18, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 5/18: Lagunitas Beer Circus, Spring Swap, and Coffins

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 18
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Craft Beer Week, Lagunitas, Lagunitas Beer Circus, Elastic, Spring Swap, Kokorokoko, Leah Ball, Scottie McNiece, Angel's Envy, Coffins, Reggie's Rock Club, Bones

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2014
Reader's Agenda Mon 5/12: Columbia Yacht Club, City Winery's dinner party, and Truckfighters

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, May 12
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, MV Abegweit, Columbia Yacht Club, Chicago Architecture Foundation, City Winery, Wilco, Glenn Kotche, Kathy Hart, Marc Grapey, Peter Coenen, The Gage, Elysabeth Alfano, Truckfighters, Reggie's Rock Club, Marmora, Taken by the Sun, Universe

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sat 5/3: Global Cannabis March, Kids and Kites Festival, and Bladerunner

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, May 3
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Bladerunner, cannabis, Concrete Roots, Cricket Hill, Daley Plaza, Dan Linn, Global Cannabis March, Illinois NORML, Illuminati Congo, John Zorn, Kids and Kites Festival, Laswell, medical marijuana, Mick Harris, Mokena, Naked City, Napalm Death, Nicki Serbin, Painkiller, Reggie's Rock Club

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