Interview by Holiday Kirk (@HolidayKirk) Upon entering the Dough Street Entertainment studio, I was surprised to see one of the monitors playing the video for “The DLow Shuffle.” I gestured to the monitor and looked over at DLow, who was getting up from a chair near the door, “How many times would you say you’ve…
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FSD Songs Of The Week 4/4/14
It’s that time of the week again. Do remember, that if the song dropped anytime since last Friday (3/28) it’s eligible for the list. Now we aren’t saying these are the BEST songs of the week, but they are the staff’s faves and joints you can catch us bumping in the office.
FSD Feature: Would You Rather With Taylor Bennett
Created by Cameron Chapleau and Matthew Andreasen for Fake Shore Drive Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, readers, friends, Romans, countrymen. We’re back with our original series and feature on FSD: Would You Rather? The brainchild of Cameron Chapleau and Matthew Andreasen, this video segment features the Chi’s rising stars answering a series of rather…
FSD Feature: Lil Bibby Talks New EP ‘The Book’ & Handling Rise To Fame
Interview by Keith Reid-Cleveland (@kreid_c) Lil Bibby is the newest promising face to be attached to Chicago’s music scene. Free Crack, his first and only mixtape, was released at the end of November and has reached almost 800,000 views on LiveMixtapes.com since then. Showing some perfectionist tendencies, Bibby wasn’t satisfied with those numbers. Having received…
FSD Songs Of The Week 3/28/14
It’s that time of the week again. Do remember, that if the song dropped anytime since last Friday (3/21) it’s eligible for the list. Now we aren’t saying these are the BEST songs of the week, but they are the staff’s faves and joints you can catch us bumping in the office.
FSD Feature: Every 4 Bars: The Alex Wiley Interview
Interview by Holiday Kirk (@HolidayKirk) Despite the active bong in the corner of the Soundscape Recording Studio’s mixing room, Alex Wiley was alert — vivid even. If Wiley was high, it wasn’t showing. Over the next hour, Wiley sputtered out ideas, concepts, plans, and jokes with a clarity that most sober folk don’t possess. We…
FSD Songs Of The Week 3/21/14
It’s that time of the week again. Do remember, that if the song dropped anytime since last Friday (3/7 — we took last week off for SXSW) it’s eligible for the list. Now we aren’t saying these are the BEST songs of the week, but they are the staff’s faves and joints you can catch…
FSD Feature: 10photos Goes IMAX 3D
Today, we bring you an FSD Feature of another kind—this one coming from famed Chicago photographer, 10photos. If you know 10, then you know he’s been putting in work for years with his unique photography and keen eye for shots. In fact, many times his style is so distinct that you can immediately tell it’s…
FSD Feature: So Awesome: The ShowYouSuck Interview
Interview by Holiday Kirk (@HolidayKirk) Towards the end of our interview as I was packing up my equipment I asked ShowYouSuck (Clinton Sanford) when he first heard he had his own Wikipedia page. “I have a Wikipedia page?” was his truly awestruck reply. He drew his iPhone with the speed of a old west gunslinger…
FSD Round-Up 3/7/14
S.O.N. f/ Cosmic Lloyd – Mass Appeal Semaj OC – 16’s Rockboy K9 – LOCKERZ Keenan Coke – Keenan Coke Analog Division f/ HiCLAS! – Selective Hearing Rob-Hyphen-Lo – King James (Prod. C-Sick) Videos from Rebel Diaz, Prob Cause, Martin $ky, Ty Dolla $ign, The Guys and JP below.