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— Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Lloyd Snyder — Bub City , Chicago ; Open Jam : Jimmy Burns — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Toad The We Sprocket / Marcy Playground — Cahn Audirorium , Evanston ; Andrew Duhon — City Winery , Chicago ; Bikes & Burlesque — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Christopher Dammann Quintet — Constellation , Chicago ; Ally & AJ — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Migggie Snyder — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Arpa Cafe — Old Town School of Folk , Chicago ; Jorge Federico Osorio — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Crywank / Foot Ox — Reggies , Chicago ; Joe Di Zillo / Almost There But Not Really / Yin Waster ( Joint ) — Reggies , Chicago ; Cybertrash / Juno — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; ADI Oasis — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Jesus Jones / American Scientific — SPACE , Evanston ; Line Dancing — Sundance , Mundelein ; Comedy — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Anthem — Timberlake Resorts , Mount Carrol ; Katherine Andrick — Untitled , Chicago ; Vinyl Wednesdays — Will Co . Brewing , Joliet ; Ben Barinard — Zanies , Chicago ; Christian Johnson — Zanies , Rosemont .
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Bonzo Squad — Alive One , Chicago ; Proximity / Anthony Bruno — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Rotundos / Division Point / Minivan — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Heart Attack Man / Arm ' s Legnth / Super American — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Tire Swarm : Live Band — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Lloyd Snyder — Bub City , Chicago ; Vinyl Goldmine — Bub City , Rosemont ; ' 90s Night — Carol ' s , Chicago ; Syleena Johnson — City Winery , Chicago ; Emily Kuhn Quintet - Album Release — Constellation , Chicago ; Open Deck — Evenflow , Geneva ; American Music Festival — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Karaoke — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Alan Brown / Alan Gresik — Green Mill , Chicago ; Open Blues Jam — Harlem Ave Lounge , Berwyn ; Hackensaw Boys — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Ha Ha Tonka / Me Like Bees — Hideout , Chicago ; Bop to the Top — HOB , Chicago ; Stand Up Comedy ( Foundation ) — HOB , Chicago ; Dave Willimaosn — Improv , Schaumburg ; Bethany Pickens — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Open Mic — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Ott — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Open Jam with Sam Wyatt — Pollyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Calidore String Quartet — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Gozortenplat / Grape Juice Plus — Reggies , Chicago ; Samantha Fish — Rock ' N Wheels , Addison ; Kashmir — Rockin ' in the Park , Rosemont ; Joey J . Sayre — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Rosa ' s All-Stars w / Lil Ed Williams ( 11pm ) — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Trevor Hall / California
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Honeydrops — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Glassio / Jennifer Hall — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Duane Powell / Rae Chardonnay / Bonita Appleblunt — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Soul Rebels — SPACE , Evanston ; Glare / Alien Boy — Subterranean , Chicago ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Sundance , Mundelein ; Andy Giarranto — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Juice Man — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Drama — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Unbridled Burlesque / DJ — Untitled , Chicago ; Anthem — Wicker Park , Highland IN ; Maddy Smith — Zanies , Chicago ; Ben Brainard — Zanies , Rosemont . |
FRIDAY 30 JUNE
DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; John Irabagon / Shawn Maxwell — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Free Fallin ( Petty ) — Arcada , St . Charles ; DJ Don Carlo — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Hts ; Flamingo Haze — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Some Years Later — Basecamp , Lisle ; Off with Their Heads — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Rush Tribute / M-80s — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Simple Remedy — Bub City , Rosemont ; Them Dirty Roses / Ace Monroe — Carol ' s , Chicago ; Syleena Johnson — City Winery , Chicago ; Teen Suicide / Flycatcher / Gay Meat — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Chicago Yestet — Constellation , Chicago ; Bent Dimes / Littlebirds — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Gerald McClendon — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Black Bananas / Wolf Eyes — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Sonic Sanctuary / DJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; Cisco Pike / Extracto — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Chris Jones — Green Mill , Chicago ; Nerdvana — Hard Rock , Gary , IN ; Karaoke / DJ — Heroes West , Lemont ; Anderlik & Church — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Between The Buried And Me ( 6:30pm ) — HOB , Chicago ; Dave Willimaosn — Improv , Schaumburg ; Bethany Pickens — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Whipped Cream / YEHMEs — Joe ' s , Chicago ; Zella Day — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Old Shoe / Peach Jam — Martyrs , Chicago ; Nick Barnum — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; DJ — Nellies , Palatine ; Karaoke — Nellies , Palatine ; Nick Moss Band — Pollyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Jaden Thompson / Ky Williams / Inphinity — Prysm , Chicago ; Santana — Ravinia , Highland Pk ; Eddie Griffin — Rialto , Joliet ; Too Hype Crew — RiverEdge Park , Aurora ; Nate Manos / Pibo Márquez / Joel Pibo Márquez — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Comedy Showcase ( Upstairs )/ Meet Upstairs ( 10:30 pm ) — Schubas , Chicago ; Feeble Little Horse / Full Body 2 — Schubas , Chicago ; Piano Bar — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Nicola Cruz / Tammy Lakkis / Aguila — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Huntertones / Akie Bermiss — SPACE , Evanston ; Wait What — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Drop Tailgate / Scott Anderson Duo — Tailgater ' s , Bolingbrook ; Weston Estate / Greek — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Alesana / Limbs — The Forge , Joliet ; Chicago Divas — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Ifficial / Kinky P — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Maddy Smith — Zanies , Chicago ; Ben Brainard — Zanies , Rosemont .
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block of whatever , and you remove the stuff that kind of shouldn ’ t be there . And so a lot of the music I made – some of it ’ s very bombastic , some of it ’ s very dense – but sometimes it involves removing things . And with “ Helpless ,” there was originally quite a lot more orchestration , quite a lot more going on with drums and percussion . And I just thought , “ You know , the core of this is the vulnerability , the delicate vulnerability of the voices , so everything needs to both reflect and support that .” So it made removing anything that seemed bombastic sort of necessary to create this sort of … I dunno .. pocket ? For their delicate voices .
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IE : And there ’ s also that classic old musical trope that it ’ s all about the notes that you don ’ t play . Moby : Yeah , which , again , when I started playing music in the ‘ 70s , I was taught to be complicated . Like , my guitar teacher – when I started playing classical music and jazz when I was nine years old – he loved complicated music . He wanted me to be Larry Carlton – he wanted me to be the next Larry Carlton , so he was training me to be a virtuoso jazz guitarist . He loved fusion , like Return to Forever and Weather Report . And I was like , “ Okay , well , he ’ s my teacher , so I will learn this and I will play as fast and complicated as he wants me |
to .” But then I realized that the music that was resonating with me was simple – it was Neil Young , it was Blind Willie Johnson . And then punk rock , obviously , had such a simplicity to it , I thought , “ Oh , maybe music doesn ’ t need to be unnecessarily complicated !” Sometimes complicated music is wonderful , but giving yourself the freedom to be a minimalist when it ’ s called for ? I mean , you listen to Blind Willie Johnson ’ s “ Dark Was the Night , Cold Was the Ground ,” and there ’ s nothing going on , and it ’ s one of those perfect recordings that humans have ever made .
IE : And you knew a good friend of mine , the late Mark Lanegan . We stayed in touch during the pandemic , and I really miss him . Moby : Yeah . And when I met Mark , I was so intimidated by him because he has that voice and that history , and he ’ s tall ! Well , everybody ’ s tall to me , but I was so wonderfully surprised at how kind he was . He lived in Glendale , I lived in L . A ., so we hung out quite a lot . But he was just so humble and nice , and so I ’ ll leave you with this story . He did the duet with Kris Kristofferson (“ The Lonely Night ”) on the first record , and one of the last times I communicated with him was I sent him the vinyl . And you know what ? He clearly had a lot of emotions , but he maybe was not necessarily the person to wear his tears on his sleeve . But he wrote back and said , “ I was just listening to the duet with Kris Kristofferson , and I was crying .” And I ’ m so sad that he died . But I ’ m really happy that somehow , I was able to be involved in giving him that .”
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