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Even though these guys allegedly broke up last year, a song off their self-titled inaugural LP (”Anecdote”) recently appeared in a television commercial for Sprint. Also allegedly, Ambulance front man Marcus Congleton is keeping the Ambulance LTD name and working on the now one-man-band’s second album, according to NME.
This band’s first record is really […]

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 […]

BE WARNED! Pitchfork is practically on the brink of being almost completely and utterly sold out. According to Pitchfork, two-day Saturday-Sunday passes for the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival– that festive concert event taking place in Chicago’s Union Park July 13-15 (their words, not mine)– are totally sold out.
That means if you only want […]

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 […]

Your favorite hobo impersonator and mine is bringing his band to the Vic in Chicago on July 17 for what i’m sure will be another totally-worth-attending but super-annoying-at-points performance. I’ve seen these guys more times than any other band i can think of, and they usually end up adding a second Chicago show once the […]

I don’t know why I feel compelled to put lame puns and rhymes in my titles, but that’s the editor’s problem, not mine. My only problem is figuring out how to see all my favorite bands in the just-announced set times for this weekend’s festival. I sprung for a ticket last-minute, and I think it’s […]

If it weren’t for Stephen Malkmus, I probably would have successfully avoided all of this year’s summer nonsense, but alas, it looks like I might end up spending $25 to visit Pitchfork on one of the three days (hopefully the same day Sonic Youth and De La Soul play).
So what do y’all think about the […]

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 […]

Do you see what I did there? Do you? I cleverly removed one overused suffix and exchanged it for another!
If I seem giddy it’s because many of my fellow RTPers are based here in Chicago and this morning the 2007 Lollapalooza lineup, likewise based in Chicago, was announced.
I know of at […]