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Zach Blumenfeld

ARTICLES: 34
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Your Curated Chicago Weekend, 2/11-15

FIVE DAYS OF WEEKEND, Y’ALL! Thanks to our early presidents’ greatness–now that we have works of art such as Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, we can truly see Washington and Lincoln […]

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Grizfolk Gave Me Everything I Wanted At Lincoln Hall

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When I interviewed Grizfolk for a feature in Paste Magazine last month, they were gearing up for their first headlining tour. I asked them what they had learned opening for bands […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend, 2/4-2/7

This weekend marks the start of Mardi Gras celebrations. We don’t have any listed here, because we figure if getting hammered NOLA-style is your weekend plan, you’ve already reserved your […]

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Smashing Pumpkins Are Coming to Lyric Opera House

Normally, we’d wait to publish a preview of a show until a few days beforehand, but this is (paradoxically) too cool and too hot to wait on: The Smashing Pumpkins […]

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Your Curated Chicago Weekend, 1/28-1/31

I’d like to start this off with a glimpse of perhaps the stupidest idea Uber has ever concocted. You may have heard about a couple of recent high-profile assaults carried […]

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Your Curated Chicago Weekend: 1/21-1/24

We’ll start off with a song of the day: “The Way” by Fastball. You might have heard that in the far-off suburb of Wood Dale, just beyond the nether regions […]

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All Them Witches’ Smoke-Filled Lincoln Hall Seance

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I knew I was in for a wild, primal evening of music at Lincoln Hall for the second night of Tomorrow Never Knows. With a name like All Them Witches […]

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Your Curated Chicago Weekend

Every Thursday morning, we help you plan the best way to spend your upcoming weekend in this glorious city. When we started 3CR, there was some debate as to whether or […]

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All Them Witches’ Michael Parks Talks Mysticism, The Hero’s Journey, and Why He Bows To The Microphone

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I graduated from Vanderbilt University in May. Besides my degree, the best thing I took away from my time in Nashville might be the music of All Them Witches, a psychedelic-blues […]

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Chicago’s Music Meccas: Subterranean

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Chicago has one of the most vibrant music scenes in the country, and a major reason for that is the plethora of incredible venues strewn across the city. Too often, […]

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