Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Month is almost half over. What have you done to celebrate it? If you have yet to feel the flow, here are some recommendations: * There’s still room enough on the bandwagon for you, so pick up copies of Rhymefest and Lupe Fiasco’s new albums. Rhymefest’s Blue Collar dropped earlier this week and Fiasco’s Food and Liquor has an official release date of August 8th though it leaked to the Internet faster... more ›

Chicagoist knows that we can sometimes be a little weird. That is, sometimes we do and say things which makes other people give us that look. You know the one. The “you’re more than a little crazy, aren’t you?” look. more ›

If you miss the original NES and its synthetic tunes, hit up Double Door this Tuesday where you can see The Power Ups play high-energy rocked-out arrangements of theme music from early Arcade, Nintendo and Commodore 64 games. The band originally formed in August 2003 as a four-piece summer project and only intended to have one live performance. But the response from that Empty Bottle performance was so positive that they decided to solidify as a band and go on tour. more ›