In an effort to get eyes on both of their biggest shows, WWE shook up their programming block this summer. The biggest shift was a familiar one—they rebooted the “brand extension.” Between 2002 and 2011, Raw and SmackDown’s respective authority figures (initially, Vince McMahon and Ric Flair) would draft superstars to…

The title of Audra Lord’s second full-length play, Fugue, holds a clever double meaning. Primarily, it’s a reference to the “fugue state,” the rare phenomenon where a person has temporary amnesia brought on by psychological or physical trauma. In the play, the central characters have all forgotten a traumatic event…

There are two touchstones that Mike Bobbitt frequently revisits on his new stand-up album: crass humor and Star Wars references. And with a joke about having sex while wearing a Boba Fett helmet, it seems that Full Frontal Nerdity was an excellent choice for the album’s title. After eight years of doing stand-up, the…

Since before Disappears released its 2010 debut, Lux, critics, bloggers, and fans have often written about the band’s “influences.” Words like “motorik” get thrown around, and any band that could be described as “krautrock” tends to enter the conversation.

Releasing albums by Smith Westerns, Woven Bones, and Dum Dum Girls, HoZac Records has established itself as one of Chicago’s best indie labels. For the past two years, the garage/psych/experimental label has offered a singles subscription club—the HoZac Hookup Klub—which sends 500 elite subscribers limited-edition…