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News Fri May 21 2010
Friday Quick Links
- Sure do hope you're coming to our party tonight at the Metro!
- Not a friendly reminder of their recent Chicago show, the band Torche had their van broken into after their Friday night Congress Theater performance supporting Coheed and Cambria. (via)
- After Ellen interviews Scotland Yard Gospel Choir's Mary Ralph who is fast recovering from a recent post-accident surgery. Get well soon, Mary!
- Mark your calendars for what's sure to be the year's biggest music conference in Chicago: "Genius Without Borders: Michael Jackson."
- Kid Sister, A-Trak and Psalm One (check our interview with Psalm One in 2006) made a video at Superdawg on Wednesday. A bunch of pics. Were you an extra on set?
- Are you a club promoter? Are you in a band? I hope this isn't a conversation you have often, or, ever. Epic. (via)
- WBEZ's Hit it or Quit It podcast weighs in on the new Lollapalooza acreage.
- Goldmine magazine visited WFMU to bask in their vinyl collection. (no drooling)
- Threadless is auctioning off items on eBay to help Nashville Flood Relief. You can also buy one of these beautiful posters.
- A ukulele is the perfect instrumental accompaniment to your packed "L" train sing-a-long.
- Venus is putting a boy on the cover! A boy!
- Wow, 8mm film footage of Led Zeppelin performing in Chicago in 1975 at (the now demolished) Chicago Stadium.
- Download a free mixtape by Chicago's Nikki Lynette.
- Drummers and music lovers of all sorts can test their knowledge by playing Name That Drum Fill.
- Like your music visual? Think what Girl Talk did wasn't all that hard? Check out this visualization of all the samples in Feed the Animals as they happen.
- Frank Sinatra's catty letter to George Michael c. 1990.
- RIP Ronnie James Dio. Remember him when you next make the sign of the horns. Holy diver, you've been down too long in the midnight sea.
