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Anyone see the Trib feature on Cubs broadcaster Len Kasper Thursday?
The guy has decent taste in music.

Evanston’s own Eddie V is getting set to tour solo for the first time this spring, and Neil Finn’s son Liam is gonna help him out.
This is interesting to me because I’ve always dug Crowded House, and for the fact that Eddie has long been a vocal fan of Neil Finn’s music. He has collaborated […]

Lots happened over the weekend, but keeping in line with RTP’s historic eye toward environmental awareness, I’ve condensed three bits of news into one post, saving at least a few eTrees.
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Saturday night Quirken, Rev Dave and I all saw St. Vincent at Schuba’s. Rev was at the early show and Quirken and I were […]

Sorry for the lapse of Guitar Fridays. Work has been an absolute bee-itch and some RTP.com technical difficulties kept us from all of the goodness.
So now that we’re back in action. Today calls for some good, down-home GII-tar. The kind that makes you want to get up and dance on a sunny day […]

So you’ve gotten an iPhone but all the features have you neglecting your super awesome band that would totally make it if your band-mates would only get serious about it? Now you can have the best of both worlds.

Don’t be too rough on them, they just started practicing like two weeks ago.
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Amplive has been given the green light to release an ‘In Rainbows’ remix album which you can download for free, legally. For more details on the project, visit:
http://www.onesevensevensix.com/amplive/index.html
Enjoy!

The Action-Squad Genius Corps is presenting its second annual Hipster Valentines. If you laughed until you cried at last year’s batch. Your heart is probably going to stop briefly, and then start again from all of the laughing… and love.
It’s the best way to tell that hipster in your life that you give […]

This post comes a little later in the year than I planned but nonetheless there are still many shiny new digital files to look forward to this year. A short list of some anticipated and noteworthy albums of 2008:
March 4th:
White Hinterland
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And I think it should be Vince Gill:

Seriously, though, Kanye West might be the perfect embodiment of everything that is wrong with the world today. His display during last night’s Grammys made me fucking sick. Someone seriously needs to smack those retarded white sunglasses off his big cocky head and convince him that god doesn’t […]

The Hype Machine has done a nice little thing by compiling a Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2007, listing the best 50 songs, best 50 albums, and best 50 bands based on content from the music blogs in their index. No major surprises since we’ve seen these bands and songs covered by every music blog, but […]