Friday July 6 EL-P, Killer Mike, Mr Despot, Mr. Mutahf**kin’ Esquire 8:00pm | Bottom Lounge Changes: Justin Long & Davey 9:00pm | Beauty Bar Little Louie Vega, Kevin Hedge, Chosen Few DJ’s 10:00pm | The Mid Moodymann, John Simmons 10:00pm | Smartbar Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers 9:00pm | The Shrine   Saturday July 6th Chosen Few […]

This weeks edition of the filter sees a techno-heavy Friday in Chicago, led by an appearance at Smartbar from FUNCTION of Sandwell District fame, as well an appearance from Dialated Peoples turntablist extraordinaire DJ BABU at the Shrine. Our pick of the weekend comes courtesy of the fine selectors at A Love Supreme, as they […]

By this point, you’ve undoubtedly seen the onslaught of hype behind the massive  Spring Awakening taking over Soldier Field this weekend. As their touting of the current prevalence of “EDM” is in good hands, this weeks quick edition of The Filter pays heed to a couple other noteworthy events, notably Neo Soul songstress Jill Scott […]

With the City launching their new FREE “Loops and Variations” series in Millennium Park, we’ve decided to run a special Thursday edition of the filter  (We’ll still be running with our standard Friday- Sunday Picks on June 8th). It’s been approximately 10 years since we’ve last seen Chris Clark here for a Warp records tour appearance […]

The work-in-progress that is The Filter continues during this unusually spring-like start of June. The usual house and techno fix is fed with some residual stateside performances from DEMF and Mutek artists, and the street fests are in full swing as well, making their presence felt with some neat performances at Do-Division. For our pick of […]

Those subscribers to the early Meiotic newsletters back in 2002-2003 will recall our Chicago event recommendation email signatures, and our linking to m50’s local event page (which he still keeps up to this day), as well as to the old Modsquare site, amongst others. With the slew of attention that electronic music has garnered over the past […]

Well hello sir; it’s good to see you again.It seems like just yesterday that one of our all time favorite guests  during the YFL and JACKSON era of shows – one Mr. Alfred Darlington, aka  DAEDELUS – graced us with a virtuoso monome performance in signature dandied-out attire. The Los Angeles based Darlington – whose prolific output over […]

If you haven’t already seen the multiple Facebook event posts out there about this party, consider this your notice. A collection of heads from the mid-nineties heyday of Chicago “rave” have returned for another in the series of Come2Gether revival events, this time at the Mid. Featuring a trio of headliners (McBride, Johnson, Hyperactive) and a […]

From our friends at ABSTRACT SCIENCE, the QUADRATIC peeps will be rocking the SUBFIX MASSIVE event up on the Metro stage… gonna be a heater!