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Blog Fri Nov 06 2009
Friday Quick Links
- Get your own Weezer Snuggie! (Now with more Weezer!)
- Lollapalooza wants you to suggest bands for 2010's festival.
- This week's Daytrotter session includes music from White Rabbits who roll into town for shows supporting The Walkmen at Schubas and Lincoln Hall next week. Free downloads!
- Rogue Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon needed a kidney, right as the band was about to make it big. They made a movie about it, called D Tour. Catch it on PBS next week.
- Love The Hood Internet? Show it with a shirt!
- Is the Metro haunted? Ghost Lab investigates. The episode (titled "Murky Water") replays on Discovery on 11/10 or check online clips here (start with part 4).
- Local blog Red Threat has the skinny on DJ Zinc and his latest EP. Is it Drum 'n Bass? Jungle Core? Grimehouse? You be the judge.
- There's a disturbing trend of Best Albums of the Decade lists popping up on the interweb. And here's one more! A Top 50 to get you through Friday afternoon from the blog "Music for Kids Who Can't Read Good". (via)
- CHIRP sure would like you to contact your representatives today about the Local Community Radio Act of 2009 (HR 1147).
- Get your hands on a free download of a remix of Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise album, called, oddly enough, Illinoize, by Montreal-based producer Tor. More, um, oddly enough, Sufjan has a new album out all about The BQE in New York.
- Get your jazz on at the annual Umbrella Music Festival this weekend.
- And have you bought your copy of the Tao of Wu yet? Do you think your Wu-Tang sword can defeat me?