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Blog Fri Jan 01 2010
Friday Quick Links
When we're not nursing a sambuca hangover, we're looking at things online. Happy New Year!
- Scotland Yard Gospel Choir's Mary Ralph compiled a Top 10 list of her own about her life, post-van accident. Inspiring! Please help SYGC recover by donating a bit of money to this fund.
- Come out to the Hideout on Sunday for a special re-play of their annual Holiday Panto to benefit three castmembers who were left homeless and stuffless after a Christmas house fire.
- Time Out: Chicago takes a look at the most Underrated Chicago albums of 2009.
- TOC also has the obligatory list of Best of 2009, genre by genre, Best Albums of the '00s, and the Best Albums of 2009.
- Chicagoist has the line on the Ony Children mixtape that's available for free download.
- Also, if you were put off by the super late start time at the Metric show at the Cubby Bear last week, they really want to make it up to you.
- Avant/Chicago lists out his favorites in Chicago music of the year.
- Twitter followers can help determine Butch Walker's setlists during his January residency at Schubas.
- Big Rock Candy Mountain has been counting down his top albums of the year. And what a long list! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 following Monday after a computer mishap (Y2K?) [Update, here's the final Part 4.].
- Wow, the entire staff of Permanent Records did lists of their favorite albums of 2009. Kill some time at their site (just keep scrolling), then go buy some records.
- Greg Kot previews what you might want to hear live in Chicago in 2010.
- The staff at Bloodshot makes lists and resolutions for the new year.
- STV SLV and ABX posted their favorite tracks of 2009 over at The Hood Internet site. WOOT!