Wild Beasts were one of my favorite acts at the Pitchfork Music Festival this past weekend. I wrote in my Saturday recap that the band’s set was so seamless and airtight that it only added to their already slick demeanor, each member of the foursome working in a cool slow motion (triumphant fist pumps included). I’ve probably told someone at some point that their most recent album, Present Tense, isn’t my favorite in their catalog....

Q: I’ve been wondering: Since there are lesbians out there who occasionally crave cock, does the reverse also happen? Are there gay men who occassionally crave pussy? —This Possible? Q: I’m a 26-year-old woman. I started dating a fantastic guy a month ago, blah blah blah, we’ve already talked about marriage. The problem is that his dick isn’t up to par size-wise or staying-hard-wise. He was aware of this before I came along, and it made him an enthusiastic and skilled oral performer to make up for it....

Peripatetic bassist Matthew Golombisky didn’t stay long in Chicago, where he moved from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; after a few years he left for Oakland, and he now lives in Buenos Aires. Still, he’s deeply connected to Chicago’s improvised music community through Ears & Eyes Records, the label he started here, which has become a vibrant outlet for local artists, including Charles Rumback, Nate Lepine, and Twin Talk. Golombisky remains a musician too, of course, and this week he returns to Chicago to support Cuentos, his own new release on the label....

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On November 17, 2014, comedian Dave Maher woke up and checked his Facebook account, where he saw that his friends and family had been mourning him as if he were already dead. That’s because on October 22 he went into a diabetic coma—for three and a half weeks his condition had shown no signs of improvement, and friends and family assumed he was lost. But after being moved to a hospital in his hometown of Cincinnati he was revived, just days before his parents had to decide whether or not to take him off life support....

Last month I visited Bogotá, Colombia, a destination that’s been on my bucket list for a long time. In recent years the formerly crime-ridden and civil war-torn capital has made a remarkable turnaround: As recently detailed by Chicago magazine’s Whet Moser, Bogota has succeeded in lowering its homicide rate by more than 75 percent since 1993. During my stay in the city nicknamed the South American Athens, I was impressed by its many excellent museums, centuries-old Spanish Colonial architecture, and impressive Andean setting, as well as the hospitality of its residents....

September 5 will mark 100 years since Chicago police officers and federal agents raided and pillaged the offices of the Industrial Workers of the World on West Madison Street. The CPD seized everything from political pamphlets to personal love letters as possible evidence of the Wobblies’ attempts to sabotage American participation in World War I. In leftist circles, the fishing expedition for “evidence” of treasonous activities was seen as a pretext for dismantling an organization that was successfully unionizing workers around the country and threatening government and business interests....

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Shellshag Local garage outfit the Orwells celebrate the release of their major-label debut Disgraceland tonight at Schubas—it’s a free show, but you had to win tickets to get in. If you wanted to go but wound up without a way in there are plenty of other excellent shows to see this evening and throughout the weekend. “British producer Joshua Leary, also known by the cryptic stage name Evian Christ, first started attracting attention in online electronic-music circles for a series of tracks (collected on the 2012 anthology Kings and Them) that reimagined chopped-and-screwed Houston hip-hop as lo-fi ambient techno,” writes Miles Raymer....

There’s a reason why Donald Trump is barely mentioned in Bill Ayers’s new book, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto, which calls for a social movement that opposes the neoliberal agenda of the rich and powerful that run our political system. When he was writing it last year, he generally assumed that Hillary Clinton would become the next president of the United States. The storm calmed for the Weather Underground as the draft and the Vietnam War ended....

Bishop Bullwinkle’s profanity-laced takedowns of roguish churchmen and their hypocritical flocks on “Hell 2 Da Naw Naw” and “Some Preachers [Ain’t Shit]” have made him a cult, meme-ready YouTube celebrity quite apart from the praise and condemnation he’s received from modern-day southern-soul aficionados. And his shows go even further: they’re basically an unexpurgated barrage of toasts, dozens-style insult routines, and sexual throwdowns. Seemingly designed to both amuse and offend as wide a spectrum of listeners as possible, Bullwinkle’s act represents a long-standing “underground” strain of black folk humor, similar to what Rudy Ray Moore did with Dolemite—though Bullwinkle’s “Bishop” gimmick adds a new layer of transgressiveness....

Andrea Bauer Bric-a-Brac Bric-a-Brac Records, the Avondale record and collectibles shop that opened last June, will be hosting a fund-raiser event on Sunday, March 2, to fund a PA system for its in-store shows. Ever since the shop’s opening day it’s been hosting constant, exciting shows and events—all the while borrowing a PA from neighboring DIY space Animal Kingdom. The shop is booking a busy spring and summer schedule, so now’s the time for Bric-a-Brac to upgrade its own system....

For this invaluable political documentary, a team of video correspondents organized by director Jehane Noujaim (Control Room, Startup.com) collected street-level footage of the Egyptian Revolution from January 2011, when President Hosni Mubarak was driven from office, through summer 2013, when the Egyptian military, responding to widespread public anger, deposed his democratically elected successor, Mohamed Morsi. By focusing on a handful of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Noujaim manages to humanize the tensions in Egypt between secular liberals who want a free society and members of the Muslim Brotherhood who want an Islamic government....

Certain forms of free improvisation, far removed from the technique’s roots in jazz, take “free” to its logical extremes. Brooklyn-based electroacoustic collective Causings create restrained, microscopically detailed, almost entirely abstract sound art that’s defined more by its process than by a fixed lineup—they attempt to eliminate any parameter that might crystallize into habit, so that every performance begins with a blank slate. Derek Baron and Adam Gundersheimer, both originally from the Chicago area, founded Causings as a duo in late 2013, and fellow former Chicagolander Sandy Gordon joined in October 2014....

Courtesy of New Deal Crew’s Soundcloud Chris Crack Chicago rapper and New Deal Crew leader Chris Crack‘s been steadily releasing EPs and one-off singles all year, and today he releases a full-length mixtape, Kickin It With TW. The bold, cinematic collection is clearly inspired by soul soundtracks for 70s blaxploitation films, and today’s 12 O’Clock Track is one of the mixtape’s standout numbers, “Rose Gold on My Two Fangs.” The tune’s smooth groove should be enough to convince folks to listen to all of Kickin It With TW; take a peek at the tune’s newish video below and keep an ear out for the mixtape....