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Details You May Have Missed From our Twitter, Friendfeed or otherwise Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. to Make Beer Waste Ethanol Fleet Foxes "Mykonos" (Video) Andrew Bird - Anonanimal Live last week Check out Gene Ween Live- Full Show Bootleg Pre......
Elbo Up For 5 Bands
One Of Those Value Shows 5 band banger-bash this Saturday at Elbo Room. It is A Friend Called Fire's 1-year show (rumors of cake) and Wu Li Conspiracy play an acoustic set. 10 bux, 9ish start time....
Musician John Glick and Friends Remembered
Show At Bottle On Saturday Musician John Glick and Friends Remembered. In 2005, a suicidal driver smashed her Mustang into an idling car full of 3 Chicago indie rock musicians -- killing them all. (and she - Jeannette Sliwinski -......
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
People Always Ask Me What's The Phenomenon Paul's Boutique, the groundbreaking 1989 Beastie Boys record, is celebrating it's 20th anniversary with a digitally remastered, visually expanded version. The re-release will be available in an assortment of...
WLUW Moving
Radio Station Upgrades This from the WLUW meeting last night. Are still going to be a 24/7 FM and streaming station with a blend of student and non-student community volunteers. The majority of our programming will stay the same. Will......
Quickie Album Looks
Short And Sweet - Takes On New Music Fake Shark Real Zombie, Angel Lust EP - Red Hot Chili Peppers mixed with Tool. Filled with punk-pop passion, the word and Fake and Real seem to describe their sound, but so......
Sonic Youth/Beck split just one of Record Store Day releases
Trying To Survive With Good Music The second annual Record Story Day will try, once again, to show us all why independent record stores are worth supporting. And, like last year, musicians are trying to help the cause. Sonic Youth/Beck......
Bach In The Club
Disco 2.0 Everyone seems to be chatting up a rebirth of Disco these days, but what about Classical music? What would happen if the 2 got mashed together. ZZZ is trying to figure that out....
Free Practice Space
Better Mondays We've been tauting the merits of Brighton, MA for awhile and now's your chance to see them. Each Monday in Feb. they'll be playing for free at Schubas as part of their Practice Space series. Come by and......
Telepath(e)(ique)
Three Of The Same (old post but it came up again recently) There's trouble brewing in the world of musical band names. Two (3) groups - almost the same name, in general pretty similar sound. Telepathe (pronounced “TEL-EP-ATH-EE”) is a......
New Music, New Albums, For Free
Just Released, Take A Listen Albums are back out in full force now and you can listen to some fresh stuff for free. The Boss, Of Montreal Remixed by Jon Brion, The Bird and the Bee, Kylie, John Cash Remixed,......
New Chicago Music Reviews
Quick, Simple Takes Andrew Bird - Noble Beast - The highly intelligent, always far-flung stylings of Bird are a little more focused on Noble Beast. There are few surprises. The album has girth as well, clocking at close to an......
Best Show In Town
This Is Why Living In Chicago Is Great Three Bands 1. Loyal Divide2. Horse In The Sea3. Ultra Sonic Edukators One Place & Price Schubas - $8 - Friday...
Show Tonight
4 bands, 8 Bux, 1 Night Tonight at Elbo Room a four band throw down with Nuke Mutes / The Rubes / Jennifer Hall and The Robert Hynes Band. Do it......
Some new music Reviewed
Quickie Album Takes Glasvegas, Glasvegas - Any band that can incorporate You Are My Sunshine into the first track on the album, make it rock and not sound cheesy, is worth a full listen. Glasvegas's self-titled debut brings about the......
Best Nights This Weekend
Who Wants To Party? A quick look at some of the best places to be this weekend. From Sono to the Congress - time for the get-down ballas....
Can You Follow?
Junk We Twittered, Junk You Need To Know Junior Senior's Jeppe Remix Quincy Jones, others in Trib A Saturday Night Tortoise Progress Report MCA announces music sched...
The Best Chicago Songs
The Top 'Singles' From The City of Music Illinois Entertainer looks at the greatest songs in Chicago history. From Cherub Rock to Duke of Earl, a nice look. Also the Top 5 by various categories....
Two New Remixes from Paul Anthony & Zxx
Songs Redone Uh Oh Disco! has put up two floor hummin' remixes from Paul Anthony & ZXX. Both Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne get a redo....
The Hammer Strikes Again - Spring Edition
Lotus Returns Bigger & Better The best live show for the money will be back in Chicago on April 4 with many other Midwest dates. Lotus at the Vic w/ Telepath. Prepare to rage....
The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever
A Soundtrack For Your Sins The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever - Love Grandmaster Flash White Lines, but something about Cocaine always gets us jacked. A fun and detailed list....
I Want The Faith
Charlie Deets Born Again Sure it's not officially released until tomorrow, but how about a little leak? Charlie Deets' remix goodies off Fight The Death Funk come to you in the form of I Want The Faith. Featuring LMNOP, Deric......
Florasonic at Experimental Sound Studio
They Say Music Helps Plants Grow Florasonic at Experimental Sound Studio is inside the Lincoln Park Conservatory until Feb. 28. TOC article with more info. Florasonic is a unique program that commissions composers and artists to make new site-specifi...
F2: The New Folk - An Explosion
A Return To The Simpler Things Cycles in music are pretty reliable, in a fluid sort of way. Even in the age of digital distribution and low-cost production, the trends appear like they have been since the late Sixties. The......
Cool Kanye West Interactive Billboard
Unique Marketing From The Ye Camp Found this on Craigslist. Cool Kanye West Interactive Billboard I just drove by Randolph and Peoria and saw a weird billboard. You can actually take a picture of it with your cell phone and......
God We Do Love To Twitter
Tweeting The Info Some of the stuff we put up on the ol' Twitter Best Sandwich Ever? Meet the Mainline Attention Target Shoppers SXSW band list - Chi lacking Animate Objects Free EP Obama's love for Chicago music...
Tomorrow Never Knows Festival Set For This Weekend
Find Out Who's Rising Now Tomorrow Never Knows is happening this week at Schubas. Starts tonight with great acts for the next few days like Bishop Allen, Hey Champ, Dept. of Eagles, Flosstradamus and more. Lost in Tress, another TNK......
Distortion - Very Distorted
Magnetic Fields Album Couldn't get into this album at all. The "distorted" recording, many live or near live, drove us batty. We really haven't like the band since 69 Love Songs when they moved from the epic attempts/diverse sound to......
Redoing Blondie, Redoing The 80s
Aleks And The Drummer Throw It Back One of our fav local acts has a redo of Blondie's Fade Away and Radiate up for Buffet Libre. Other acts in this volume include Ruby Suns, Au Revoir Simone (ELO), Star Fucker......
HOT CHIP WITH ROBERT WYATT
Delicious Lil' Colab HOT CHIP WITH ROBERT WYATT "WE'RE LOOKING A LOT OF LOVE"....
