The unlikely history behind Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland, Ohio, the archival label's newest compilation by Miles Raymer We live in an era where the prerequisites for starting a record label can be as minimal as having an Internet connection and knowing a couple of people with MacBooks and a modicum of musical talent. But before GarageBand and Bandcamp revolutionized the art of making an album (or at least leveled its playing field) such work required heavy machinery?oven-sized tape devices, vinyl-stamping machines, lathes that look like something taken from the floor of an automotive assembly line?and a team of operators trained to work them.? [ Read more ]
Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Clutch, Late Bar publicist Lisa Marchese on the Black Angels, and more Philip Montoro, Reader music editor Anaal Nathrakh, The Codex Necro On its 2001 debut, this UK duo plays a hybrid of black and industrial metal that sounds like a man being turned inside-out by a lawn mower.? 
Who has access to Rahm Emanuel�s inner sanctum by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke The third week of July was a busy time for Mayor Rahm Emanuel?he was working with police brass to reassign cops, announcing a competition between city workers and private firms to provide recycling pickup, and, of course, battling teachers over implementing a longer school day. But he still found an hour to slip away for breakfast at the exclusive Chicago Club with a couple of millionaire bankers?Bill Downe, the CEO of the Bank of Montreal, and Mark Furlong, the CEO of Harris Bank.? 
Profiles Theatre gets to the heart of the violence in A Behanding in Spokane by Tony Adler My wife wouldn't come with me to see the Profiles Theatre production of Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane. She's been off McDonagh since the spring of 2009, when we saw The Lieutenant of Inishmore together at Northlight.?