This week "What About Chicago?" is transmitting from the new Amateur Arts Studios in the "Soul City Corridor" on the West Side of Chicago's Austin neighborhood!

What About Chicago?...….. your weekly show playing the best music you never heard and keeping in tune with exciting events taking place every day across the city!

Thank you for tuning in! You can support the shows efforts with a small donation at www.patreon.com/whataboutchicago. Listen in every Friday at 12pm with Que4 Radio at que4.org, on Apple Music, Spotify, @whataboutchicago and all your favorite podcast platforms. Also make sure to follow and like our pages at facebook.com/whataboutchicago, on Instagram @whataboutchicago and also on Twitter @whataboutchi

What About Chicago? - 4/2/21 | 4/8/21

"Entertain" (Amateur Arts) - Rahim Salaam

Tune in to this week's episode What About Chicago? exploring live art, music, entertainment and cultural events happening every day in our beautiful city. We also play only Chicago "underground" music of all genres.

You can listen in every Friday at 12pm with que4.org, on Spotify, Apple Music and/or soundcloud.com/whataboutchicago

Follow our page on Instagram @whataboutchicago to keep up with local Chicago news from the DIY Arts! - cover Art by @lekstylez

What About Chicago? - 8/13/21 | 8/19/21

Tune in to this week's episode of What About Chicago? exploring live art, music, entertainment and cultural events happening every day in our beautiful city. We also play only Chicago "underground" music of all genres.

You can listen in every Friday at 12pm with que4.org, on Spotify, Apple Music and/or SoundCloud.

Follow our pages on Instagram @whataboutchicago & @rahimsalaam to keep up with local Chicago news from the DIY Arts!

What About Chicago? - 4/21/23 | 4/27/23

Tune in to this week's episode of What About Chicago? exploring live art, music, entertainment and cultural events happening every day in our beautiful city. We also play only Chicago "underground" music of all genres.

You can listen in every Friday at 12pm with que4.org, on Spotify, Apple Music and/or @whataboutchicago

Follow our pages on Instagram @whataboutchicago & @rahimsalaam to keep up with local Chicago news from the DIY Arts!

What About Chicago? - 6/16/23 | 6/22/23

Crazy events going on ya'll! Take that walk every single day to Praise Art and stay hip by listening to What About Chicago? with host Rahim Salaam. All Chicago music. All Chicago events. 
Instagram: @whataboutchicago @rahimsalaam


What About Chicago? - 3/22/25 | 3/28/25

What About Chicago? - your weekly show exploring live art, music, entertainment and culture with hosts Ben Moroney and Rahim Salaam transmitting from Earphoria: Chicago. Listen to the podcast on all podcast platforms, with our friends the Machine Culture Collective at www.machineculture.com and every Friday the podcast airs at 1 p.m. with Que4 Radio at que4.org.

On this week's episode we praise Art and PREACH @iO, celebrate another Hostel Halloween // The 7 Deadly Sins, Let's Build A Garden City! at MCA, play with the Ouija Board: A Curated Evening of Improvised Music, attempt to navigate In The Canyon and so much more!

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What About Chicago? - Oct. 26 - Nov. 1

LYRICS - 
many years on my face
many tears that I've shed
none have ever been a waste
take walks all alone
never fought for the throne
let em' have it cuz he grown
vague post when I'm sad
never name, names 
but they still be gettin' mad
mad while moving on
yeah I'm a little salty 
but congratulations
such an inspiration
more broken art
more innovation
opportunity crawls past me
offered up a bag but I forgot that they asked me
seems nice
but I think of it badly
spend the night 
I be thinkin' we family
once the feels get attached
grandcousin gets sad 
now I gotta kick a rap
eat some beans
take a nap
that ship has sailed 
and you know its all facts
you can't prevail
no chance
no haps
the evian's gone 
drink the water from the tap
had chills and nightmares
opened up an old bag 
full of new fears
had to take stock
like what to do here
while the homies in my cypher like 
happy new year-

"Disruptive Presence" (Amateur Arts) - Rahim Salaam

"Safety Broke" - (Amateur Arts) Rahim Salaam prod. Ben Karas

"Exotic Other" - Bento/Salaam

What About Chicago? (Named The Chicago Reader's #1 music podcast), is your weekly show exploring live art, music, entertainment and culture with host Rahim Salaam. Listen/follow/subscribe to the podcast on Spotify/Apple Music and on Instagram at @whataboutchicago. We really need and appreciate any and all support to keep the podcast going. Please donate what you can at patreon.com/whataboutchicago #praiseart

Amateur Arts Productions is a collective of Artists of various degrees, genres, techniques, cultures, ideologies, etc.. In the spirit of the many amateur artists that came before us and paved the way to new experiences such as Henry Darger, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Grote Reber and Guglielmo Marconi, just to name a few;  Amateur Arts Productions' goal is to seek out, create, produce and distribute original, unknown and/or undiscovered "art". By using the word "Amateur" to describe our arts production we are implying that an amateur may be in a position to approach a subject with an open mind and therefore will be able to provide themselves and their audience a free and original experience unclouded by formal skill/training and financial concerns/worries.  Amateurs are serious about the work they do, providing outstanding examples of contributions to society. But whereas professionals obtain licenses as their “measurability of the excellence of service provided”, amateurs break taboos by loving their work. From here, it can be argued that, to the extent amateurs threaten the professional industry by providing free services, the professional industry has an interest in making its counterpart amateur activity shameful.  Below are a set of links for a few Amateur artists we support. Check them out! There will be many more to come!  If you would like to share your art, join in creation of art, or just say hello; email us at amateurartsproductions@gmail.com

MAKE ART A PART OF YOUR LIFE!

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