If you're hoping that the recent closure of Crobar's Chicago location will result in quality dance music returning to what was once a downtown mecca, I've some bad news for you. According to the Sun-Times (which jibes with what I've heard), the club's "closure" this weekend will result in a very brief layoff and rebranding. The former Crobar is slated to soon re-open under the name "Vibe" in the not too distant future.

Unfortunately, the word on the street is that the club is going for the "young urban demographic." What this means: commercial Hip-Hop, bottle service - you know the score.

Crobar had been largely seen as in decline for a long time. Perhaps this was never so apparent as during their closing second-to-last weekend, which featured geriatric "bad boy" and Reality TV retread Dennis Rodman as a "celebrity host" - yet another instance when music was entirely secondary to spectacle at a club.