Chicago Now: Links

I stopped added new links to this page in 2002. (I do occasionally go through and update or deactivate old links.)

Mailing lists

Chicago Improvised Music (chi-improv): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chi-improv/
WNUR Jazz playlists & announcements: http://www.wnur.org/lists/jazz-contacts/

Calendars

CUBE Calendar Online: http://www.cubeensemble.com/events.htm
Chicago Reader concert listings: http://www.chireader.com/music/mainmusic.html
Jazz Institute of Chicago concert listings: http://jazzinstituteofchicago.org/WhatsHappening/tabid/27/Default.aspx
mPShows: http://www.mpshows.com/
NewCity concert listings: http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/music.html
OkkaDisk calendar: http://www.okkadisk.com/calendar.htm
Weekend Records and Soap calendar: http://www.weekendrecordsandsoap.com/events.html

Radio

WNUR 89.3 FM: http://www.wnur.org/
WHPK 88.5 FM: http://whpk.uchicago.edu/
WZRD 88.3 FM: http://www.zap.to/Wizard_WZRD
WLUW 88.7 FM: http://www.wluw.org/
- experimental music show "Something Else", Sundays 10:00pm-2:00am: http://www.stopgostop.com/somethingelse/

Organizations

AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians): http://aacmchicago.org/
Experimental Sound Studio: http://www.expsoundstudio.org/
Emerging Improvisers Organization: http://www.emergingimprovisers.org/
Jazz Institute of Chicago: http://jazzinstituteofchicago.org/
Lampo: http://www.lampo.org/
Outre Music: http://www.outremusic.com/

Venues

Camp Gay: http://camp-gay.org/
Candlestick Maker: http://www.candlestickmaker.org/
Chicago Cultural Center: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Tourism/CulturalCenter/
Deadtech: http://www.deadtech.net/
Elastic Revolution Productions/3030: http://www.elasticrevolution.com/
Empty Bottle: http://www.emptybottle.com/
Heartland Cafe: http://www.heartland-cafe.com/
The Hideout: http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
HotHouse: http://www.hothouse.net/
Hungry Brain: http://www.emergingimprovisers.org/sunday.html
Museum of Contemporary Art: http://www.mcachicago.org/
Myopic Books: http://www.hollerrecords.com/holler/myopicmusic.asp
Nevin's Live: http://www.nevinslive.com/
Pink Section: http://www.gurlpages.com/bloodless/
Renaissance Society: http://www.renaissancesociety.org/
Storefront Theater: http://www.gallery37.org/cgi-bin/v3-storefront.pl
Velvet Lounge: http://www.velvetlounge.net/

Labels

Asian Improv: http://www.asianimprov.com
Atavistic: http://www.atavistic.com/
Barely Auditable: http://www.barelyauditable.com/
BOXmedia: http://www.boxmedia.com/
Crippled Intellect Productions: http://www.crippledintellectproductions.net/
dead ceo: http://www.deadceo.com/
Delmark: http://www.delmark.com/
Drag City: http://www.dragcity.com/
Erstwhile: http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/
Ertia Creations: http://www.ertiacreations.com/
482 Music: http://www.482Music.com/
Future Reference Recordings: http://www.futureref.com/
Longbox Recordings: http://www.longboxrecordings.com/
OkkaDisk: http://www.okkadisk.com/
Penumbra: http://my.execpc.com/~penumbra/
Quinnah: http://home.earthlink.net/~quinnah/
Skin Graft: http://www.skingraftrecords.com/
Solitaire: http://www.solitairerecords.com/
Southport: http://www.chicagosound.com/
Soutrane: http://www.soutrane.com/
ugEXPLODE: http://nowave.pair.com/
Wobbly Rail: http://www.wobblyrail.com/

Artists

The CenterStage web site has short bios for many of the artists featured here at http://centerstage.net/chicago/music/whoswho/styles/AvantGarde.html.

The Candlestick Maker site also has many artists bios, found at http://www.candlestickmaker.org/bios.html.

Tatsu Aoki: http://www.avantbass.com/
Jerome Bryerton: http://balancepointacoustics.com/jerome.html
Bobby Conn: http://www.truckstoprecords.com/bobby%20conn.html
CUBE: http://www.cubeensemble.com/
Hamid Drake: http://www.restructures.net/Drake/Hamid_disco_home.htm
Kevin Drumm: http://www.dronedisco.com/drummdisco.html
Eight Bold Souls: http://8boldsouls.com/
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: http://www.fred.net/jbowie/ehe.html
Douglas Ewart: http://www.bambooewart.net/
Bob Falesch: http://www.zeggz.com/raf/
Scott Fields (Madison, WI): http://www.scottfields.com/
Fleck/Velat: http://helios.insnet.com/~jfleck/fv/
Flippomusic: http://www.flippomusic.com/
Flying Luttenbachers: http://nowave.pair.com/luttenbachers/
George Flynn: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~raf/expflynn.html
Found Objects: http://www.foundobjects.tv/
David Grubbs: http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~jnn/tRS/dgd.html
Paul Hartsaw & Desiring-Machines: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/72/paul_hartsaw__desiring-mac.html
Robbie Hunsinger: http://www.robbiehunsinger.com/
Illusion of Safety: http://illusionofsafety.com/
Eliezer Kaplan: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/260/e_z_kaplan.html
Eric Leonardson: http://www.ripco.net/~eleon/
Lozenge: http://www.mylozenge.com/
Don Malone: http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/malone/
Bob Marsh: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~raf/bobbym.html
Jim O'Rourke: https://tisue.net/orourke/
Random Touch: http://www.randomtouch.com/
Jason Roebke: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jroebke/
Scott Rosenberg: http://www.barelyauditable.com/rosenberg.html
Damon Short: http://www.damonshort.com/
The Silver Measure: http://www.thesilvermeasure.homestead.com/
Sinister Luck Ensemble: http://www.sinisterluckensemble.com/
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: http://www.tedsirota.com/
Christopher Sorg: http://www.enteract.com/~csorg/
Jerry Steinhilber: http://www.jerrysteinhilber.com/
Grant Strombeck: http://home.earthlink.net/~grantstrombeck/
Terminal 4: http://www.truckstoprecords.com/TERMINAL%204.html
Tiny Hairs: http://www.tinyhairs.com/
Toe: http://www.truckstoprecords.com/TOE.html
Tomato Box: http://www.tomatobox.com/
TV Pow: http://www.tvpow.net/
Ken Vandermark: https://tisue.net/vandermark/
Williwaw: http://www.prairienet.org/~williwaw/
Michael Zerang: http://www.geocities.com/~mzerang/

Stores

Jazz Record Mart: http://delmark.com.cnchost.com/jrm.home.htm
Weekend Records and Soap: http://www.weekendrecordsandsoap.com/

Defunct (but archived)

/bin (electronic music performance series): http://www.enteract.com/~egoiste/bin.html
Brick House: http://www.barelyauditable.com/brickhouse.html
Chicago No Wave: http://nowave.pair.com/chicago_no_wave/