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The Onion’s knack for packaging sarcasm with a healthy dose of utter hilarity is a gift I can’t even dream of aspiring to, so the least I can do is share the love with an audience I’m sure will appreciate it.
Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
September 10, 2007 | Issue 43•37
CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression […]

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“We just had a meeting…today,” Greenwood told Paste.com on September 7. “We’re very relieved to have finished recording. Now we have to decide what we should do with it.”
I hope what they decide involves us hearing it.
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Les Savy Fav: Slugs in the Shrubs

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As featured on Gapers Block, or as my grandpa would pen it: Gaper’s’ Block.
A fun backyard type cookout and down home musical jamboree at top three Chicago music venue (schuba’s, empty bottle (haters, commence hatin’)) the Hideout (you sporting your button, hipster?) this weekend. Beeee there!
Featured bands include:
Friend of RTP posse: […]

There was a ton of Apple-related excitement today, but I think I need more time to digest the $200 iPhone price cut before I can make an unbiased post about it here.
I am super happy to point out, however, that RTP darling Feist is featured in Apple’s new commercial for the redesigned iPod nano. Check […]

Remember a few weeks ago when we talked about whether Perry Ferrell was DA-worthy? The overall feeling from the peanut gallery was that, despite all his quirks and general eccentricities, Perry’s pros far outweighed his cons.
Well, Urob over at Action-Squad offered up some further evidence in support of the contrary today. Seriously, Kelly Rowland […]

That’s the name of one of the tracks on the soon-to-be-released iTunes only EP of B-sides and rarities from Midlake called Oak & Julian.
You can listen to it on Midlake’s MySpace page, and buy the whole damn thing when it’s released on iTunes next Tuesday, September 4.
I like Midlake. Do you?
RTP Radio:
Midlake - Balloon […]

First Paul, then John…now Ringo Starr’s solo wares are available for purchase from the iTunes Store.
Is George the last piece of the puzzle that needs to fall in place before the entire Beatles catalog makes its way to an iTunes Store near you? I hope so, but if it does I’m pretty sure it’s […]

If this isn’t a must-see TV event, then I don’t know what is.
Tonight (Monday, August 27) on Letterman, Feist will be joined onstage by a choir comprised of Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene, Carl “A.C.” Newman of the New Pornographers, Aaron Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf of the National, Nicole […]

If you live in Chicago and enjoy rock and/or movies with rock contained in them like it’s one of their vital organs, then come out and support our friends this weekend. It should be fun.
Where: Elegant Mr. Gallery (1355 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor)
When: Saturday, August 25, 9:00PM
From the Evite:
Here’s what this is all about: […]

Here’s one of the (many) things I don’t understand about Pitchfork. As you saw from Frazer’s post below, the wild wild internet experienced a bit of a false start this morning when an alleged leaked track from Radiohead’s new album surfaced on a random MySpace fan page. To everyone’s dismay, it was later revealed that […]