Entries associated with the tag "Mannequin Men":

Local princes of rock music the Mannequin Men should still be riding high on their successful showing at the CMJ festival, but alas that's not the case. Last night most of their gear was stolen from their van while it was parked in Logan Square. Here's the list:

-Gibson SG Special, faded brown color, two open coil Seymour Duncan pick-ups, sticker of Wimpy from Popeye on back

-Epiphone Les Paul Jr., single P-90 pickup, faded yellow, busted input jack sticker of Olive Oyl and Popeye

-Fender DeVille 4X10 combo amp with grey grillcloth 10db input is busted.

-Ampeg combo bass amp

-cymbal bag (with one Zildjian crash and Paiste hi-hats) and hardware bag 

Anyone spotting the gear in the wild is encouraged to hit the band up on MySpace.

Seems to be a trend this week. 

The new issue of Spin showed up at my house today, and after giving it a cursory flip through I'd say it looks like the magazine has a serious boner—that's a journalism term—for the City of Chi right now. The Spin Mix lists Miss Alex White & the Red Orchestra's sugar-thrash treat "Squeaky Clean" and the bumping remix of Matt & Kim's "Yea Yeah" that Flosstradamus (described here as "DJ gremlins") did a little while back. A few pages later there's a picture of Kid Sister alongside a description that makes her come off as some sort of club gangsta rather than a fun-time lady who raps about getting her nails done. Then Office shows up with a full-page profile that's oddly focused on their drinking abilities. It's a full-on Chicago party up in there.

Just as I was thinking how weird it is that I've probably seen half of this month's Spin together in the same room, I got an e-mail alerting me that the Mannequin Men—local purveyors of "tight-pants swagger"—are today's band of the day at Spin.com. You can and should download the track "Boys" from their upcoming Fresh Rot here. (Full disclosure: I wrote the bio for Fresh Rot's press materials and those guys are my bros.)

I smell a "Chicago is the New Seattle Austin Portland Montreal New York" trend piece in our near future.