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'Superstar' Kami drops an EP on the heels of his LP 'Just Like the Movies.'

Not even a full two months removed from his new wave inspired debut album, Just Like The Movies, KAMI drops off, SUPERSTAR EP, a noisy and experimental four-track project hosted…

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NoName is tearing up her 'Telefone' Tour

NoName (or as I like to call her MoName) is creating rippling waves after dropping her critically acclaimed debut mixtape Telefone in July of 2016. The Chicago born & bred star is currently on…

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Vic Spencer & Big Ghost LTD drop new project "The Ghost of Living"

You might need to take that top 10 list from 2016 that you thought was near finalized and make a revision: Vic Spencer and Big Ghost Ltd have unleashed a collaborative…

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Chicago phenom CLEW gets funky over some jungle beats on "Tarzan" [Premiere]

At this point, everyone knows that Chi-Town is a hotbed for dope music. I don't know if there's something inside the deep dish pizza or what; but there seems to…

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Bari blesses us with his birthday banger titled "Jetpakk"

St. Louis has brought us some boss OG artists like Sylk Smoov & Nelly. But the YGs coming out of the STL are some of the best in the game right…

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The Women of Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago 2016

The weather wasn't the only unreliable factor to this year's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park. Amidst episodes of wind and rain, the 3-day festival (spanning July 15-17) was relatively hit…

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Chi-Town's CJ TheFLii has "SUPER-NATURAL" spit

Chicagoan emcee CJ TheFLii just dropped his long-awaited mixtape entitled SUPER-NATURAL, and the project just so happens to be out of this world. Both Nieklaus and CJ produced the experimental hip hop record that…

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Whitney's new single "No Woman" is soothing country soul in a haze

Chicago's Whitney can be quite accurately reduced to a mix of drummer/vocalist Julien Ehrlich's (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra) soft crooning and guitarist Max Kakacek's (ex-Smith Westerns) melody-induced grooves, but there's really much more to it than that.…