Wicker Park

North Lawndale-based record store Shuga Records are slated to open a Wicker Park location this fall at 1272 N. Milwaukee Ave. (near the intersection of Milwaukee & Ashland)…

Reckless Records’ Wicker Park shop (more by Milos Markicevic) According to DNA Info, Reckless Records CEO Charles Taylor purchased a two-story building at 1379 North Milwaukee Avenue for $1,580,000 on December 30, 2013…

Twin Shadow @ Lincoln Hall in 2011 (more by James Chadwick) As discussed, Twin Shadow play a MINI // RCRD LBL-sponsored show in a “not normal” venue in Chicago tonight…

‘Zombie Hipsters’ asserting their civil rights on Halloween (more by Amanda Hatfield) When you think of an outlet with its finger on the pulse of “what’s next,” it might not be Forbes Magazine…

Forbes, known for lists like “the 400 richest Americans”, has released a list of “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods“. Wicker Park got #4 (almost as hip as Williamsburg, Brooklyn which played #3), but Logan Square oddly isn’t in there…

J Mascis @ BV-SXSW 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck) The Raveonettes @ Beekman Beer Garden in July (NYC) (more by Amanda Hatfield) Green Music Fest is set to return to Wicker Park on June 23 & 24 for a 2012 edition of the two-day street festival…

Weezer @ Jones Beach in August (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) today in Chicago * Wild Flag, YellowFever @ Empty Bottle * Sleepy Kitty, Ghost Heart @ The Whistler * Riot Fest Secret Show @ AAA Warehouse * The Shondes, The Homoticons, 8 Inch Betsy @ Hideout * Surprise Guests @ IL Centennial Monument (Free Show) * 7 Seconds, Danny Vapid and The Cheats @ Bottom Lounge * Jon Mclaughlin, Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers, Amy Lennard @ Lincoln Hall * Creepy Band, The Horrids, Absolutely Not, The Blue Dragons @ Subterranean * Weezer, Urge Overkill, Teenage Bottlerocket, White Mystery @ Congress Theater RSVP for the “Surprise Guests” at the IL Centennial Monument (I think it’s Wild Flag)…