A few weeks back Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco served as principal for a day at his old south-side middle school, Crown Community Academy. But Lupe’s got even bigger education plans, FOR THE ENTIRE INTERNET, having recently started a book club. He’s hosting lectures on each selection on his Ustream page, and the reading list so far has featured Huey P. Newton‘s Revolutionary Suicide, W.E.B. DuBois‘s biography of John Brown, and Chris Hedges‘s Empire of Illusion (which, sayeth Lupe, “has a good pace”). May Gossip Wolf suggest that Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life might be apropos, given that Lasers has been pushed almost a full year beyond its initial anticipated release date? It’s now slated for March 2011.
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Last weekend’s two-day Caveman-a-Go-Go fest was booked by Bottom Lounge co-owner Mike Miller and featured some fine acts: Andre Williams, local masked rockers the Goblins, and former Billy Childish associates the Masonics, who Miller flew over from Merry Olde England for just one show—their first-ever gig in Chicago. While attendance at the fest seemed paltry to Gossip Wolf, crowd enthusiasm, measured in busted dance moves, was considerable, and according to Miller, there are future Caveman fests to follow. One attendee on Saturday was definitely stoked: Masonics superfan Ian Adams (of Maximum Wage), who loaned a red Burns Nu-Sonic ax to front man Micky Hampshire for his entire set.
Kill Hannah bassist and DJ-about-town Greg Corner has named his new-ish Saturday night residency in the Debonair basement Come as You Are. Corner insists the title isn’t a tip of the hat to the grunge revival, and there is no theme to the night beyond the always subjective “good music.”
