We in the Midwest: Juke Vs Witch House: Nothing is Real and Everything is Awesome
Genres are nothing but artificial constructs, but then again what isn’t, amirite? Is juke a real thing or just a word dummies use to describe ghetto house? Is witch house something Pitchfork created to further the already over-segmented world of dark music/rock music/lo-fi music or is it a point of coming together of for people who adhere to a series of aesthetics not addressed by prior simplifications like goth?
A little bit of me thinking too much and a lot of great, free, new music from DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Hollywood Holt, SSION, Juiceboxxx, Dirty Diamonds, and Starfoxxx.
Put some soul in your summer
GlitterGuts is all about soul music. Northern soul, southern soul, mod soul, blue-eyed soul, psychedelic soul, Vegas grind, Philly soul, Motown, Stax, Chess, neosoul, doo wop, funk, R&B, Bobby Brown-and-Boyz II Men-and-Bel Biv Devoe-style new jack swing and whatever the hell you wanna call the crazy crap R. Kelly Does.
After two years of waiting to hook up with some soul parties, and nothing coming together we’ve finally decided to throw a couple of our own. We’re starting August with an 18+ soul dance party in Pilsen and ending it with a 21+ event at Late Bar.
The Neon Apocalypse is coming
The End of the World Dance Party has been laying low for a while, and it’s coming back with a vengeance. The Neon Apocalypse is a plastic fantastic party dedicated to the joys of fabrication, nihilism, bright colors, loud music and sex.
Video Party: One of These Things Is Not Like The Others
In a slate of awesome new videos, Hey Champ and YAWN invoke the awesome realities of pyramid power, while The Glamour discovers the unstoppable sexual power of a well-curled mustache.
We in the Midwest: Jokes and Jokes and Jokes and Jokes
Does Humor Belong In [dance] Music?
Willy Joy and Autobot rent out the Chuckle Hut to throw a dance party, plus mixtapes by Kid Color, Matt Roan, Moneypenny, Murderbot, Team Bayside High, The Hood Internet, Yawn, and Midnight Conspiracy
We in the Midwest: Full length audio/visual product
A new EP from Dirty Diamonds and a new mixtape from BBU, plus videos from both. And it’s all free. And I think I left some candy in there somewhere.
We in the Midwest: 100+ Years of Chicago Music
Chicago hosted the last great World’s Fair.
In my lifetime, it has been home to the best basketball player in the history of the game, the richest and most powerful woman in the history of the media, multi-faceted weirdo geniuses like Ed Paschke, Steve Albini, R. Kelly, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Divine and Henry Darger, sports dynasties, political dynasties, and the first multiracial president of the United States. Home to some of the best food and worst politicians in the nation. New types of theatre, comedy, and literature were born here.
The windy city. The city by the lake. The city of big shoulders. Hog butcher. Tool maker. Stacker of wheat. Here’s 100 years worth of songs about shaking your ass til your’e wet enough to fuck.
Tour Diary: NOLA, KY
Eric waxes poetic about New Orleans, and the perils/rewards of touring out of a cramped Honda Accord, and neglects to mention Hurricane Katrina, Trent Reznor, Lil Wayne, and Anne Rice.
We in the Midwest: New music from Midnight Conspiracy, Mic Terror, and British Knights
British Knights and Midnight Conspiracy get all Euro on Chromeo and Little Boots’ asses. Mic Terror drops a new video. People rejoice. There’s dancing in the streets.
We in the Midwest: Juke and House mixes from Starfoxxx
In which our hero tortures a metaphor comparing DJ teams to 80s cartoon superheroes, and gives away other people’s music for free like a juke-era Robin Hood.
Video Party: Sandwiches
I was going to throw a NSFW tag up in the title, but fuck it. Even the G-rated parts of this website are NSFW. It’s pictures of people at parties and shit, and if your bosses see you looking at it, they probably won’t like it.
This video is a tribute to ealy John Waters: it’s got a bad ass soul cut running throughout. There’s partial nudity, full-on nudity, bad acting, cannibalism, and ultraviolence. Everything I love.
GlitterGuts x Fat Rabbit photoshoot
So far, the best party of the year wasn’t really a party. It was a malt-liquor fueled photoshoot at a vintage boutique on a Tuesday. Check out some of the pictures here.
We in the Midwest: Hey Champ’s new mixtape
Only one-tenth of this post is about the HIT SINGLE (!) “Cold Dust Girl”
We in the Midwest: New Music From Jams Dean and Jaja Galliano
Haven’t I seen you somewhere before? Cool new music from people I kinda sorta know. Songs about hipster girls and plastic boys.
See a Pure Magical Love show on LiveStream
Have you ever watched videos of, say, Klaus Nomi or the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo or Suckdog or any number of groups from the art punk scenes in NYC or LA or Chicago or Montreal or Berlin or France or wherever in any one of the last four or five decades and thought to yourself, “I’m not having as much fun as I should be”? You’re probably right.
BBU’s finally shooting a video for Chi Don’t Dance. Get up in that shit!
Be a part of one of your favorite songs.
We in the Midwest: New mixtapes from Midnight Conspiracy and DJ LA Jesus
New mixes from DJ LA Jesus and Midnight Conspiracy! Plus frank conversations on the nature of masked djs, internet porn, and stereos that go up to eleven.
We in the Midwest: New mixtapes from John Twatters, Only Children, and the Hood Internet
How good do your mash-ups have to be for anyone to give a shit? Does a retro soul mix made for a queer-oriented dance party sound any different than a soul mix made for a non-sexual-identity-specified dance party? And if you say the word ‘disco’, and I say the word ‘disco’ and a dj says the word ‘disco’, what are the odds we’re talking about the same thing?
These questions and more answered in another edition of WE IN THE MIDWEST!
Other People’s Parties: The Punk Rockers are Taking Acid Again
Al Scorch runs by with a pitcher of Blatz raised in the air, yelling, “Look what we did! Look what the punks did for this place!”
We in the Midwest: New mixtape from Skyler Mendoza and Rehab
Rehab Mondays drop a new blog and a new mixtape!
We In the Midwest: mixtapes and mixtapes and mixtapes from Chrissy Murderbot
Our friend Murderbot drops a mixtape a week for one year. Weirdness/goodness ensues.
We in the Midwest: New Mixtape from British Knights
British Knights drops a mini mix of 1980s punk refixes…..
Overheard at the Afterparty: Making Friends
Sometimes making friends is really easy. Booze helps. Drugs too.
Upcoming shows: Southside Shakedown with Ghetto Division
It’s time for another installment of the Southside Shakedown, this time featuring Brooklyn’s KINGDOM…..
