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Rev Dave and I attended the Throw Me The Statue show at Schuba’s this past Friday night, and for the most part it was pretty enjoyable. Aside from some not-so-funny-at-all and cliche-ridden Chicago-themed jokes that ended up taking up time that could have been used to play one more song or two, the Seattle-based band […]

Man, Stereogum sure does hate the way Rolling Stone does things. I guess you can’t blame them. Is Rolling Stone to Stereogum as Pitchfork is to RTP?
Either way, I digress. Check out this piece where Billy Corgan dares to question Radiohead’s musical integrity. He questions Amy Winehouse in the same breath, which I could have […]

So last week Pitchfork announced Pitchfork.tv which actually sounds pretty cool. They tout it as what Music TV should be and I can’t argue. Me thinks it a pretty good idea.
Then, they knock me out with the early initial lineup for Pitchfork Festival 2008. Spiritualized anyone?

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 […]

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 […]

As expected, Radiohead will be touring the US this year and if you missed the last round of small venue shows you’re probably leaving right now to stand in line for tickets. I personally know many people who went down every avenue to score the entrance pass to the last shows here in Chicago […]

Better hurry. This sucker is most definitely going to sell out.

Readers, you’ve had time to really digest all of our individual 2007 Top Ten lists, which now brings us to the RTP Average.
This weighted scale inputs all of our individual lists into a complex, mathematical algorithm, utilizing a series of functions and their additive inverses (I don’t want to get too technicial, but […]