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I hate to keep mentioning Pitchfork in every RTP review, but after seeing this pre-cursor to their review of Stars’ latest offering, I couldn’t resist:
“Not out in record stores until late September, the Canadian indie pop band and its label Arts & Crafts wisely made its theatrical new album available for digital sales before it […]

Here in the pedestrian ‘burbs, my wife tends to freak out any time I want to stretch the speakers (The Black Keys are a speaker stretching fave lately), but I can always chill her out and get the kiddies bopping around with some early Robert Palmer.
Yes, that’s right, the guy most remember for Addicted to […]

It’s no secret that RTP are huge fans of St. Vincent. We’ve been informally reviewing (praising) Marry Me for the past couple months, so no need for a formal critique here. I say we review another review instead.

For once I agree with Pitchfork, and my review of their review of St. Vincent’s Marry Me is […]

I’m kind of an Apple nerd. Okay, I’m a total Apple nerd. I like to think I’m pretty cool otherwise (I drink whiskey, write for a rock blog and have a beard), but there’s just something about Apple that brings out the best in my inner dorkasaurus rex (much more fierce than the traditional dork […]

Only one of our esteemed colleagues managed to attend Pitchfork this past weekend — see the good Reverend’s review at Action-Squad.
I was originally planning on attending on Sunday, but made a last-second decision not to go due to the facts that:

I spent 2pm through 2am drinking the day before (USA football at Small Bar, Hot […]

For those of us who spent the nineties honing in on and fine-tuning through trial and error what would eventually evolve into our current musical taste, there’s no arguing the importance of the role played by Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins. Remember the first time you heard the opening to “Today”? Remember going back […]

A bunch of us saw the Chicago Theater catch on (Arcade) Fire, what was it, about a month ago? Hopefully in the future these posts will come in a bit more timely manner.
Anyway, it was good. Quirken, Frazer, the good Dr. and I were at the Saturday show. They played nearly all of Neon Bible […]

It’s like getting to hear a new Strokes record, except better. That’s right, better.
After listening to the record about five times so far, “In Transit,” track #2, is probably the stand out. Tracks 4 and 6 are also really good. In fact, every even number track rocks. And also the odd ones.
By micro, I […]

Just four days after the official release of “23″, I was able to catch Blonde Redhead at the Metro in Chicago this past Saturday night. Luckily, I’ve been listening to the album for a good month now, so I wasn’t at all let down by the fact that their performance was practically entirely dedicated to […]