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Concert Fri Oct 03 2008

Spotlights on Headlights

Headlights.jpgAmong the corn and college students, Champaign's Headlights have managed to create quite a bit of buzz lately. Not only they embarking on a 23 stop European Tour this month, they are also providing the theme music to CNN's election coverage. That's right, all of CNN election promo will feature the song "Get Your Head Around It" taken from their 2008 album Some Racing, Some Stopping. You can check out one of the promos here. In addition, Champaign's Polyvinyl records just announced that the Headlight's will be releasing a remix album on December 9th featuring remixes by several of their friends including Chicago's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

[MP3] Headlights - Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple Remix) from Remixes

Headlights will be perfoming at Schubas with Helicopters and World's First Fyling Machine TONIGHT at 10:00pm. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

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It's a Long Way To the Top: Chicago Music Interns (Part 1)

By Dan Morgridge

The music industry primarily runs off of the hopes and dreams of millions of kids wanting to be in a rock and roll band. Its slightly lesser known secondary source of fuel is the hopes and dreams of kids who at least want to work in a rock and roll business. All over Chicago, businesses large and small find interns knocking on their door - students, career-changers, hobbyists, and more. Transmission sits down to talk to some of them about where they're coming from, where they want to go, and what fun manual labor they've performed along on the way.

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