I’m of course referring to Green Music Fest, which was heavily rained upon last year. You caught what I was throwing, right? OK, it was a long shot.
I went to GMF last year and aside from the torrential rain, it was awesome. Murder By Death were killer (god, make me stop) and I was hoping [...]

I’ve been meaning to write something on this blog site of mine. Why haven’t you reminded me!? Here’s an interview with Braid/Hey Mercedes frontman, Bob Nanna, which I did for Verbicide Magazine a few weeks ago. It’s running over there with MP3 downloads and other goodies. Check it out.
Interview: Bob Nanna of Braid
words by Brian [...]

A message from Lala (iTunes/Apple):
The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st.
In appreciation of your support over the last five years, you will receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple’s iTunes Store. If you purchased [...]

I just received a email from RCRD LBL devoted entirely to an ad for Full Sail University’s online music business degree. Umm… no thank you? I don’t mind seeing ads when I go to their site for music, but I’m not really interested in getting spammed with offers for online degrees.
Here’s a nifty graphic that [...]

So much for the live BMX event that was slated to take place outside my living room windows. Apparently Red Bull is moving their event to another area. I can’t help but think that this has something to do with the community outcry and lack of aldermanic support. The funny thing is, there’s probably more [...]

I’m working on a European indie rock compilation for my label Chocolate Lab Records and I just stumbled upon Papier Tigre from Nantes, France. They’re Chicagoan by association having recorded one of their albums at Iain Burgess’ Black Box studio in La Dionnaie, France. Those who know know. Those who don’t — Burgess, who died [...]

I’m having fun taking the ‘casual observer with a blog’ stance when it comes to the upcoming Red Bull BMX event planned in the empty lot between Wells and Harrison on Polk. I prefer the Hitchcockian angle of watching what happens from my living room window. Red Bull’s construction crew dropped off some more equipment [...]

The other day a friend of mine told me that he’d heard that Red Bull bought the large empty parcel of land — on Wells St between Polk and Harrison — across the street from my condo. I was surprised, but not shocked. The land is over the old underground train station that used to [...]

DeRogatis has quit the Sun-Times. Again.

You heard right. Sun-Times pop music critic, Jim DeRogatis has tenured his resignation with the titular paper on Monday. He will begin writing a music blog for Chicago Public Radio in June.
This marks the second time that DeRo has left the paper since he signed on with [...]

Local musician and filmmaker Thomas Comerford’s latest film, The Indian Boundary Line, is back by popular demand at the Gene Siskel Film Center on April 22 at 6:00pm. The previous screening sold out so plan accordingly.
The film is an exposition of the 1816 St. Louis Treaty which separated the US territory from Indian tribe territory. [...]