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News Fri May 14 2010
Friday Quick Links
When we're not buying bootleg Strongbad email DVDs on Maxwell Street, we're often online reading things:
- I dunno, but if you're reading this, you might like us enough as your favorite Chicago music blog to nominate us over at Lollapalooza's site.
- Bloodshot's Rob Miller (and Jon Langford) are having adventures in the land down under.
- And speaking of Bloodshot, here's Nan Warshaw back in her grunge days. (via)
- Logan Square-ites (and other music lovers) are you psyched for your new record store, saki?
- The A.V. Club's Undercover project this week features Ben Folds covering Elliott Smith's "Say Yes." (Sounds almost peppy on his piano.)
- A Google map for all the locations listed in Mountain Goats songs. Quite a few Chicago hits, but we're a minority.
- An interview with Brian Mazzaferri of I Fight Dragons over at Deli Chicago.
- Download a new mix by Chicago DJ Matt Roan at Chicagoist.
- DeRogatis' former editor at the Sun-Times Thomas Connor takes over the job of pop music critic.
- Join DeRo and Greg Kot at a fantastic dinner at Blackbird to benefit Chicago Public Radio and Sound Opinions.
- And Greg Kot interviews Mick Jagger on the band's rerelease of Exile on Main St.
- Hot Biscuits thinks Addison Groove is a fan of Chicago's juke scene. You be the judge.
- A review of Panda Riot's new EP Far & Near.
- Enjoy the submissions under #indierockbasketball.
- SmartBar is hosting a LCD Soundsystem listening party this Sunday. Go and you could win tickets to the band's sold out show at the Metro, May 26.
- The latest Hit It or Quit It podcast is up for your listening pleasure.
- OK Go (as we mentioned) was on PBS' News Hour website last week. During the taping, Damian Kulash applied some "percussive maintenance" to a downed light. Next: his work gets reviewed on Angie's List. (I kid.)
- N.W.A. was just kidding with all that 40 business. Some serious posse research by the L.A. Weekly.