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My Bloody Valentine is coming to Chicago to play in late September at the Aragon. They still haven’t released any new music though since Loveless.
I was still in college when these guys were making music. It’s like the 90s all over again, when it was cool to go see geezers like the Stones, The […]

Silversun Pickups’ “Lazy Eye” is the latest indie track used to help sell cars. It’s featured in the new Chevy Malibu commercial below:

Leave it to the Brits to ask what we’ve all been wondering. Why is Vampire Weekend’s name so lame? Your answer to that and many more at the UK’s aptly named newspaper, The Independent
I think my favorite part is learning how to pronounce !!!. I never knew and I feel out of […]

Pitchfork revealed dates and locations of the second leg of Radiohead’s North American tour this morning, and something jumped out at me that made me a bit excited, and more than a bit apprehensive about when to purchase Radiohead tickets, and to what shows.
It also made me a bit more hopeful than I was since […]

According to our favorite local music know-it-all:
Headlining: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Raconteurs, Wilco, Kanye.
Others: Gnarls, Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, G. Love/Special Sauce, Blues Traveler, Mates of State, Bloc Party, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Girl Talk, Kid Sister, Office, Cool Kids, Battles, Go! Team, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear.
As of right now, […]

I remember Nine Inch Nails doing something like this about a year ago, and it was really cool. Radiohead is offering four separate instrument tracks, or “stems” (bass, drum, guitar, string, voice), along with their “Nude” single for sale via iTunes for about $6. The challenge? Remix the tracks and upload them for consideration, judgment […]

Two of my favorite electronic bands (and yours?), Daft Punk and Hot Chip, are featured in the new iPhone commercial. Here’s to hoping “Aerodynamic” becomes the new “1234” …

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 […]

My preferred candidate officially throws his hat in the ring.
I’m just going to come clean, I have inhaled bags of ’shrooms. I haven’t done drugs for the past 20 years, to be really honest. I’ve smoked, [expletive], like six hits off a joint in the last 20 years. I have never done cocaine, ever in […]

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?