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New City’s annual list of "who rocks Chicago" is out with some minor changes for this year.
This roll call appears to be part one of a compendium of Chicago’s finest, with New City calling it “the artist’s edition.” In years past, one list featured performers mingling with more business-minded folks.
You can probably predict most of the top 10 as they’re the usual suspects: Kanye, Common, R. Kelly, Billy Corgan, etc. New City parries the inevitable criticism that they’re hailing artists who no longer live here by noting they “still live and breathe the city through their work.” Rankings were determined “by cultural impact and influence.” Therefore, it's less a look at the artists who are creating the most vital music and entertainment in the city and more of a representation of Chicago’s musical ambassadors to the rest of the world, for better (Common) or worse (Fall Out Boy).
We’re looking forward to part two for a more locally-focused list of club owners, talent buyers and label heads that really make the Chicago scene sing.
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falloutboy=vital music? vital for morons kids of yuppies who think emo refers to weezer. if you listen to falloutboy, you need a lobotomy. period.
Uh, that was my point too but perhaps it was lost in some slipshod editing. I'd tidied it up a bit now.
Hmm, looks like a list of Chicago's most popular, not best. Whatever, like I was going to agree anyway. Missing, how about The Assasins, Healthy White Baby, (the M's are almost off the list).
Exactly, Bill. To me, it read like a list of the best-known Chicago acts outside of the city.
Perhaps some of my picks will show up in their list of 10 on the verge that they publish each year.
Will someone please, please make Corgan go away--if I had money, I'd be willing to pay to make it happen. And maybe put a hiatus on Langford as well. I know he's done good, but I've only lived here 6 years and I'm already sick of him.
neko case? robbie fulks? andrew bird? that list is inane/insane.
I think there are only three or four of the 45 that are women, too--because, you know, there aren't any women making music here or anything.
NewCity does this every year, and it's the same people, and there are no surprises, and it makes me wonder what the point of this list is, anyway. Is there anybody who hasn't heard of Wilco? Why does Chicago embrace musicians who've left the city rather than promote those who are still here?
how is corgan relevant, let alone appropriate for this list? he's such a jagbag that i'm surprised he hasn't used his sparkling personality to just kick himself right off the list.
I think they probably split the list to include more artists and make it more diverse but if you look at last year's list, of the 14 artist/performers from last year's list, all but one (BassByThePound) are on this year's list.
People still read New City?
I didn't know that they were still even bothering with that whole "content" thing anymore.
What? No Neko Case?!?
Isn't Neko from Washington?
By her own admission, Neko doesn't spend much time here. But Chicago's good at adopting anyone who spends more than two weeks here and/or has more than four beers in one of its many taverns.
Well...she technically lives here. I think her apartment is in Ukrainian Village.