For today’s pledge drive edition, Allen is joined by Flint Taylor to discuss the history of police violence in Chicago and his new book, The Torture Machine. Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in Chicago, a longtime National Lawyers Guild member, and a founding editor of the Police Misconduct and Civil […]
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago with Simon Balto
To understand issues like mass incarceration and racist policing, you have to go back in history—farther back than Reagan’s war on drugs or even Johnson’s proposed war on crime. That’s the argument of Simon Balto, our guest today and the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. He spends […]
Fri. Jan. 25, the 2019 Terry Kath tribute special
Attention Terry Kath fans, Chicago fans, and fans of guitar-driven soulful rock & roll everywhere! D.J. el Serpentine’s “The Rattlesnake Shake” is proud and absolutely psyched to be bringing a radio tradition back to the airwaves of WORT 89.9 FM… the 2019 Terry Kath birthday tribute radio special, airing Friday, January 25, from 8:00 to […]
Lykanthea on constantly revising memories through music
Lykanthea, the project of Chicago-based musician, multidisciplinary artist, and academic Lakshmi Ramgopal, explored a mix of ambient music, carnatic music, and a healthy bit of pop on the 2014 EP Migration. But since Migration came out, Ramgopal has been working on all kinds of different performances and installations, including “A Half Light Chorus,” a project at Chicago’s Lincoln […]
Slow variations over time with Litüus
The music that Connor Camburn makes under the name Litüus is all about finding a lot of variety and a lot of sonic texture in a few simple elements. The tracks on the project’s 2016 release 1980.-19905 often start with one synthesizer sound, one repeating pattern, and in some sense make you listen to the same thing over and […]
3rd Annual TERRY KATH Tribute Special
Friday, January 29th, 2016, from 8:00 to midnight (CST) WORT 89.9 FM and “The Rattlesnake Shake” program are proud and honored to present a 70th birthday party tribute show to one of the greatest guitar players in Rock & Roll history… the unbelievable and irreplaceable TERRY KATH, from the original line-up of the band Chicago, […]
