Kidd Russell has two new videos. He describes She Feels Like Home in this way, “We Shot this video on the last day of summer in Wisconsin. We had no plans, a bootleg camera, our ladies and a few cases of beer so we decided to have fun and shoot something authentic and fun. . . . → Read More: Kidd Russell – She Feels Like Home – Could it be the Juice?
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Broke DJ Kidd Russell ft. DJ John Blaze aka the homeless DJ beat: sleigh bells -infinite guitars off the new mixtape: RUDY RUETTIGER MUSIC Free download: http://hulkshare.com/cponzmu79u06 Here’s a message from Kidd Russell: If you’ve been to our live shows you know this song well and it is a fan favorite. We . . . → Read More: Broke DJ – Kidd Russell ft. DJ John Blaze aka the Homeless DJ So there was a guy in a wheelchair on the corner of Belmont and Broadway in Chicago. He had a paper cup and was shaking coins. I grabbed about 50 cents and tried to throw it in his cup. He stared at me, and smiled a bit, and drank from the cup. The “coins” . . . → Read More: Always Look Before You Toss, By Bob Kazel
"Turn the car off, we’re here" I can’t come up with a Pop Culture Top 10 of 2011. I paid no attention this year, due to extenuating circumstances. My most memorable pop music experience occurred in April as I drove around my home town (Rochester, NY) the week of my mother’s funeral while the . . . → Read More: Distraction 2011 – By LT Woodward Hi y’all: What is UP wit’ our ol’ friends at Rhino, anyway? Just seeing the be-candy caned logo below (still avec restricted trademark, natch) unleashed a rather severe Tremor in The Force, at least where I live and breathe. Can you IMAGINE—“An Evening with….”, playing in multiplexes nationwide for two . . . → Read More: Tremor in the Force – Chicago Presents an Evening of Holiday Music and Greatest Hits! By Tom Kipp Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin has died. Born in Greenwood, Mississippi on November 16, 1931, Sumlin had recently celebrated his 80th birthday with a public appearance. He died of heart failure December 4, 2011 in Wayne, New Jersey. When reached for comment, EPB blues expert John Siscoe replied: “So Hubert Sumlin is dead. . . . → Read More: RIP Legendary Chicago Blues Guitarist Hubert Sumlin Chicagoan Kevin DeBolt may have overheard confirmation of the Ryne Sandberg back-to-the-Chicago-Cubs rumor. Says KB on FB Thursday morning, “Just walked past a certain Mr. Ryne Sandberg on Michigan Ave. He was on his phone talking about hitting coaches. I’m NOT joking. Could there be a DOUBLE announcement this weekend?” DeBolt is referring . . . → Read More: Will Ryne Sandberg be the New Manager of the Chicago Cubs? This is what I recall about 9/11/01. Normal day at the office, working in my 8’8′ cube across from soon-to-retire George Vuscko. A co-worker announces the first WTC building had been hit and then I discover that no one has internet access. We’re waiting for the decision to evacuate, which must come from D.C. . . . → Read More: What I Remember of 9/11/2001 in Downtown Chicago, By Mark Erickson He went by many names- Rice, Willie, Footsie, The Goat. His real name may have been Aleck Miller. He claimed to be the well-known bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson. When it was pointed out to him that this was another man, he insisted he had adopted the name first. Of course he was an imposter, . . . → Read More: Sonny Boy Williamson – Keep it to Yourself, By John Siscoe There’s a hot’n sexy new show set to start Sept. 19 on NBC called, “The Playboy Club,” set in 1960s Chicago (Ike and Tina Turner make an appearance). This story is from the LA Times last May, when the show must have been in its’ final stages of production, giving the sad and . . . → Read More: Real Life “Playboy Club” Character Comes to Sad and Lonely End Amazing! How did he do that?!? Years ago when my oldest son was in Kindergarten (he’s 23 now), he and I shared an afternoon at Chicago’s World-Famous John G. Shedd Aquarium. I had bought him a little stuffed dolphin at the gift shop and he was playing with it, making it “swim” along . . . → Read More: Dolphins at Play Making Bubble Rings and Frolicking With Stuffed Doll, By Linda Kirsininkas Sandy Brown holds Ken's retirement plaque while my wife, Patty, holds the croquet trophy built by Paul Johnson. Ken gave me the oddly-shaped Danish flag when I visited him three weeks before his departure. I know posts to EPB tend to be quite short and oftentimes are simply a link to something someone . . . → Read More: In Memoriam, Ken Olson, One Year After – Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird – By Mark Erickson Alfonso Ponticelli has been playing a weekly gig of Django Reinhardt music at the venerable Green Mill in Chicago for well over a year now. (Al Capone reportedly hung out at the Green Mill.) I recommend everyone go hear Ponticelli. Here he is in action at the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest in Madison, Wisconsin. . . . → Read More: Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan, By Mark Erickson Here’s some new Chicago hip hop, the first visual from The 2 of Diamonds’ forthcoming project, “Jackin for Fans” set to release sometime in July. The video was directed by Nic Collins and Ryan Farmer:
Better Dayz-The 2 of Diamonds ft. Chris Mathien from nic collins on Vimeo. . . . → Read More: The 2 of Diamonds ft. Chris Mathien – Better Dayz I’m lying on a recliner, its’ faint aroma of sweat and mold having long past become an unnoticed fragment of my day. The white sheet draped over it helps to mask the odor, but it still creeps through, like smoke in a clean room. The sleeve of my sweatshirt is covering my eyes and . . . → Read More: Fighting Fire With Men, Machines and Water: Answering the Call of Duty at a Chicago Firehouse – By Stephen Sawyer In 1978 or 1979, roughly concurrent with Cheap Trick’s release of Heaven Tonight and Dream Police, I argued vehemently that Cheap Trick was a combo whose appeal would go on. I predicted their careers would have the longevity of a band like the Rolling Stones, who even by then had been recording and touring . . . → Read More: Cheap Trick Mariachi Mash Up – Surrender Exotic species invading native habitats is a natural phenomena gone wild through the active transport provided by Homo Sapiens. What starts out as novel idea can quickly turn into a catstrophe when there is no constraint. Well now, nobody explained that to these boys from Peoria! Demonstrating Yankee ingenuity and comic book creativity, they . . . → Read More: Peoria Carp Hunters, by Paul Johnson |
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