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Radio Thu Sep 20 2007

Radio Free Chicago

If you were at Delilah’s last night for the Future of Music Coalition’s “Rock The Music Party,” you might not have recognized Jon Langford’s guest harmonica player – but that was FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, who has been known to sit in with the North Mississippi Allstars. But now it’s time to get down to business: In about an hour, Adelstein and his fellow FCC commissioners will begin listening to testimony on media ownership over at Rainbow PUSH HQ. It’s the fifth of six national sessions the FCC is holding on the subject, and the opinions could decide who – or rather, what businesses – may be heard on your radio dial in the future. You can tune into the testimonials here.

JP Pfafflin

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Feature Thu Nov 12 2009

She's Money

By Kara Luger

When talking musical influences with Helen Money, it's easy to forget her instrument of choice: cello. She references Bob Mould's Beaster, with its wall of sound and intense, thought-obliterating guitar work. She speaks of The Who and all the crazy rock bands she was exposed to in the '80s. "The stuff I like sounds like life or death," she reasons. And this coming from a woman with a picture of Jimi Hendrix taped to her cello case like he's a saint.

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