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DJ Drip builds his crowd with micro mixes on TikTok

DJ Drip, aka Julian Leal, finally downloaded TikTok this past January and he got immediate results.
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Julian Leal is a 21-year-old college student majoring in business at Columbia College in the South Loop, but he s better known by his stage name: DJ Drip. In his Instagram bio, he calls himself The Midwest s Youngest + Hottest DJ and depending on who counts as a DJ and how you measure hotness, that might even be true.
Over the past four months, Leal s career has skyrocketed thanks to the success of the bite-size DJ mixes he s posted on TikTok. My friends had been telling me to get on TikTok for over a year. Dude, you need to get on TikTok there s DJs on there and they re wack, and they re doing numbers, he says. He finally downloaded the popular app this past January, and now he wishes he d started usi ....

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CJFC brings indie Japanese films to the midwest

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This is a wish come true, says Yuki Sakamoto, cofounder of the Chicago Japan Film Collective (CJFC), the first-ever Japanese film festival held in Chicago. The festival runs from May 25 through May 30 on Eventive, a digital streaming platform. We are hoping to do a hybrid festival next year in theaters and also online, to make it bigger and bigger, says cofounder Hiroshi Kono. Kono founded New York Japan CineFest in 2012, a film festival with a focus on Japanese indie shorts, while Sakamoto works with the Chicago International Film Festival and produces films of her own. CJFC is a product of their creative collaboration and friendship. ....

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Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder

Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder
The 1964 Chess Records smash “Selfish One” just happened to be the best-selling single from her decades of great songs.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
As much as people love the famous songs of so-called one-hit wonders, they don t get much respect. Legit soul and R&B hits such as Jean Knight s Mr. Big Stuff or the Capitols Cool Jerk often get lumped in with novelty numbers (Carl Douglas s Kung Fu Fighting, Vicki Lawrence s version of The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia ) on cheesy nostalgia-bait compilations. It s especially sad when an artist tagged a one-hit wonder actually had a substantial career making quality music, with a long list of forgotten minor succ ....

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Accidental Shakespeare Zooms in on a queer pandemic-era Romeo and Juliet

Director Iris Sowlat uses social isolation as a framework for the lovers; plus PARA.MAR Dance Theatre offers live classes and performances with THAWEN. ....

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Bob Koester leaves a colossal legacy in Chicago jazz and blues

Bob Koester in the stacks at the Jazz Record Mart in 2009
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Bob Koester, who died May 12 at age 88, knew what he liked and what you should like too. For nearly 70 years, he owned Chicago s Jazz Record Mart (and the Delmark label), and it was completely in character for him to snatch an album from the hands of an earnest young shopper.
In 1968, that shopper was me I d picked up a copy of Muhal Richard Abrams s debut LP,
Levels and Degrees of Light, whose surreal cover painting and saturated colors promised something exotic and strange made right here. I was more than eager to hear it, but Koester still black-haired, wearing glasses, not graceful, not yet 40 had other ideas. You can t understand ....

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