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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/turnitup/chi-replacements-reunion-20130612,0,5308483.column
The Replacements, who broke up on stage in 1991 at Grant Park, will reunite and return to Chicago as headliners of Riot Fest in Humboldt Park on Sept. 13-15.
Little information was provided in the late Wednesday announcement on the Riot Fest and Replacements web sites beyond the reunion weekend dates, which also include Riot Fest headlining appearances in Toronto (Aug. 24-25) and Denver (Sept. 21-22).
The reunion presumably will include founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson. They got together last year to record an EP of cover songs to benefit former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap, who had suffered a stroke. Dunlap had replaced Stinson’s brother, Bob Stinson, who was fired from the band in the mid-‘80s and died in 1995. Founding drummer Chris Mars quit the band in 1990, and has been concentrating on his career as an artist rather than music in the last decade.