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Featured Local Artist: Sunday Cruise

WONC — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:00:37 +0000

December’s Featured Local Artist is Sunday Cruise! Formed in 2017 by Zoe (guitar/vocals), Cassidy (bass), Levi (drums), and Camden (lead guitar), they first began performing in the summer of 2018 when they entered a “battle of the bands” competition held at Side Street Studios in Elgin. The competition ran all [...]

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Featured Local Artist: Unto The Earth

WONC — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:00:51 +0000

Our Featured Local Artist for November is Unto the Earth, a four piece metal band from Naperville and Aurora, straddling the lines between stoner, desert, doom, and sludge, with shoegaze and heavy psych influences. Formed in 2019 by guitarist Mike Yoshida and bassist/vocalist/instrumentalist Simeon Papacostas, along with lead guitarist Jed [...]

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Featured Local Artist: The Koop

WONC — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:00:22 +0000

Our Featured Local Artist for October is The Koop, an experienced and well-traveled working musician, regularly performing as a solo acoustic player throughout the Chicagoland area. So far this year, he’s played over 50 three-hour shows of what he likes to call his “essential acoustic melodies.” From wineries to breweries [...]

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Featured Local Artist: Nathan Graham

WONC — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:00:35 +0000

Our Featured Local Artist for August is Chicago native Nathan Graham! His music bridges the gap between South Side Soul and Nashville Americana, creating a new inclusive vision of singer-songwriter. Over the last decade, he’s built a career as a guitar-for-hire, touring internationally with major label and indie acts like [...]

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Featured Local Artist: Totally Cashed

WONC — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:30:59 +0000

Our featured local artist for July is Chicago’s Totally Cashed! The group released their latest full-length album, The World’s First Country Band, on June 2nd, featuring 10 songs in this new style of music they’ve dubbed “country.” Totally Cashed recently unleased their new sound to a sold-out Chicago crowd for their [...]

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Featured Local Artist: Blu Heaven

WONC — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:00:53 +0000

Blu Heaven is a DIY rap and guitar duo. Their sound exists anywhere between ambient lapsteel textures to Neptune-style synths. Hailing from Chicagoland, they employ a 5 piece band to perform their songs live in an electrifying pseudo-punk style. After releasing singles in 2019 and 2020, they released their first [...]

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Featured Local Artist: The Orchard

WONC — Mon, 01 May 2023 13:39:21 +0000

Mixing folk and classic rock with more modern alternative and indie music, The Orchard are a five-piece band featuring Liam Hellard (lead guitar), Connor Craney (rhythm guitar), Ryan Nelson (keyboard), Adam Hellard (bass) and Matt Chludzinski (drums). They formed in 2019 in Batavia, starting as a cover band, doing takes [...]

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Featured Local Artist: Stomach

WONC — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:35:53 +0000

Doom metal encompasses several eras and regional styles, but many would consider its inception to have occurred in England during the late 1960s. In the industrial city of Birmingham, the dark, blues-infused riffs of Black Sabbath marked a new beginning for guitar-driven music. From those initial chords, a wave of [...]

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Featured Local Artist: Dust Biters

WONC — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:00:44 +0000

Dust Biters is a 4-piece aggressive post-hardcore band that blends influences from the early 2000’s post-hardcore/screamo era with visceral punk and technical rock n’ roll. Their music features a unique take on heavy music, upbeat melodies, and catchy vocal stylings. The band members seek to appeal to fans of all [...]

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Evil I: A History of Punk in Chicago’s Western Suburbs 40 Years in the Making

WONC — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:15:28 +0000

by Austin Paulson The walls of Brauer House, a bar and venue in Lombard, IL, are plastered with old concert posters of legendary musicians of punk’s past. The names and images take up nearly every inch of the establishment and capture brief but explosive moments in time. The same can [...]

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