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Archive for 2008

August
Janis Ian around town - August 7th
In Legos - August 6th
"Hard mod" weekender kicks off Thursday - August 6th
All aboard the tramp bus - August 5th
South Union Arts closed for the summer - August 5th
His way of topping "9/11 2" - August 4th
Girls Rock! Chicago onstage at Metro - August 1st
July
Lollapalooza starts (sorta) tonight - July 31st
Exit Naomi: Joe Carducci reads from an LA eulogy - July 30th
Local rapper shoots cops (with a camera) - July 30th
Uptown Theater on the upswing? - July 29th
A sane way for a city to treat live music - July 28th
Matmos makes it Permanent - July 25th
Recruitment drive - July 24th
Bossa nova by design - July 22nd
I'm only leaking your album because I love you - July 21st
THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST - July 18th
Serb-o-riffic films and music - July 17th
Road-trip calendar for headbangers - July 16th
In my Chi tee - July 16th
Mother never warned me about the lasers - July 15th
Walter Meego's pool party - July 11th
Eliot's gold - July 10th
The closest you can get to being Neal Schon - July 9th
Eno's not dead - July 8th
In Memory of Mia Zapata: Gits film screens tonight at Delilah's - July 7th
Apologies to Animal Law - July 3rd
Red Sparowes take a leak on MySpace - July 2nd
What we talk about when we talk about Girl Talk - July 2nd
June
Crossing America, with Kenyans - June 30th
Dre rocks the swap meet - June 30th
Black Friday - June 27th
Bloodshot scores big, signs Dexter Romweber - June 25th
A different kind of killer teen - June 24th
Pizza for PAWS - June 18th
"Heavy Metal in Baghdad" in Chicago - June 16th
Oh yeah, chicks play guitar too, don't they? - June 11th
Sacrilicious marketing moment of the day - June 9th
Chocolate Swim - June 6th
Mark Mothersbaugh's Postcard Diaries in Chicago - June 4th
Adventures in tacky self-promotion - June 3rd
Bo Diddley no longer able to write songs about Bo Diddley - June 2nd
May
Mushroom jazz - May 28th
The Hobo's Last Ride: RIP Utah Phillips, 1935-2008 - May 27th
Punks on film - May 23rd
Quote of the week - May 23rd
Legendary Shack Shakers get more legendary - May 22nd
It wasn't a rock . . . it was a rock lotto! - May 21st
With lazers - May 20th
Don't stop now - May 19th
Par for the course - May 16th
The Trick She Turns - May 16th
Sadies Surprise Sunday - May 15th
Take it on the road - May 14th
Don't get too comfortable yet - May 14th
Success (for now) - May 13th
Postman, you better take care . . . - May 12th
Another kind of nightclub tragedy? - May 9th
Spindles of steel - May 6th
It's the little things - May 5th
The only way censorship improves anything - May 5th
April
Mecca Normal remembers Malachi Ritscher - April 28th
Get in an Open Relationship with Bird Names - April 25th
Zombie Zombie and zombies - April 23rd
Late set by DJ RSS Feed - April 22nd
It's almost as important as Malkmusgiving - April 18th
The 1900s: "SO good and authentic-sounding" - April 17th
That "six-year-olds messing with blocks" bit just got a little truer - April 17th
I vote for the rainbows - April 16th
Show your bones - April 15th
Objectophilia - April 14th
The crazy fauna of Jim Flora - April 14th
KRS-One and Pugslee Atomz: Stop the Violence - April 11th
Matt & Kim & Mano & Hollywood - April 8th
Mr. Jobs and Me - April 7th
Fugazi meets the Blue Ribbon Glee Club - April 4th
Muxtape to the max - April 2nd
Radiohead remixed by you - April 1st
March
Fashion plate - March 28th
Getting into the Mux - March 27th
50 Cent and G-Unit: No peace in the Middle East - March 27th
Thanks again, fake science - March 27th
Rock for the Animals - March 26th
Bun B reps Chicago footwear freaks - March 25th
Coheed and Cambria's multimedia empire - March 24th
The feline king of the Chicago scene - March 21st
An alternative to Justice - March 20th
Hot Gear Alert - March 19th
From his private diary to the bottoms of your sweaty feet - March 18th
Has KFC finally killed black metal? - March 13th
Freak folkers and a space vampire - March 13th
Drive-By Truckers Back on the Road - March 11th
Pitchfork Music Festival announces 2008 dates and a partial lineup - March 10th
"Ludacris has hoes in the entire state of Maryland." - March 10th
A town without record stores - March 7th
Mark E. Smith, Blake and the Auto-Didactic Opposition to Scientific Materialism - March 6th
Rumors of a theoretical Pavement reunion rock the Internet - March 5th
Obamerchandise - March 4th
Fluo Kids in the flesh - March 4th
Twenty-first century virtual chooglin' - March 3rd
The only 70s reunion I can really get behind - March 3rd
February
RIP Tim Aher - February 27th
Breaking news: David Gray officially torture - February 26th
And no, nothing Barney's done counts - February 26th
Imaginary DJ battle: Crate vs Craze - February 22nd
A harsh toke for Grooverider - February 20th
Virtual hospital visits for Utah Phillips - February 19th
Blaxploitation Moses - February 18th
Spend Saturday with the Super Furry Animals - February 15th
Oops! - February 14th
Crazy Little Thing Called Fashion - February 14th
Chiodos + MySpace + Valentine's Day = perfect emo storm - February 13th
Smooth - February 13th
One reason to care about math today - February 11th
Songs that make the whole world sing? - February 8th
I haz a Crack Cats - February 8th
Blame the Beatles: Planetary Apocalypse Edition - February 7th
Russian gas tycoon parties with Deep Purple - February 7th
Digging for "Maharishi Dug the Scene" - February 6th
Deadheads for Obama: "Vote Jerry" - February 5th
Redwalls video shoot needs warm bodies - February 1st
Terrastock close by - February 1st
January
Are you gonna take the RPM Challenge? - January 30th
Amped for Erykah - January 30th
The Boredoms join the Thrill Jockey family - January 28th
Today in the online music biz - January 28th
"Signature party-rocking expertise" for sale - January 24th
Hype alert - January 23rd
We Are Wolves - January 22nd
Waking up to a new Daytrotter - January 18th
RIP Dave Day of the Monks - January 18th
I wonder how many really send the money - January 17th
Can't shake the Shivvers - January 15th
Reason eleventy-dozen why it sucks that Pimp C is dead - January 14th
Your tax dollars at work - January 14th
The only thing I'll ever ask of Tony Yayo - January 11th
Radical ancient snoring treatment? - January 10th
I am partying with Coat Party even while I'm alone - January 10th
Chicago Afrobeat Project for Kenya - January 10th
Don't say They Might Be Giants - January 9th
Ladies Night? - January 8th
The rest of my top 40 for the year - January 8th
Smash Mouth finished ruining regular reality, moving on to virtual - January 7th
Is Jay-Z going to be iTunes' new El Presidente? - January 3rd
Sabertooth release party - January 3rd
The ban hammer comes down - January 2nd
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