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.
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 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!
