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News Fri Jun 25 2010
Friday Quick Links
When we're fighting the Triple H (no, not that Triple H, we're talking hazy, hot, and humid), we're inside, sitting in front of our computer, looking at things on the internet.
- Neko Case will fight you. Oh yes she will.
- Chicago Public Schools teacher Joe Becker is also a rap artist. He uses his music to reach his students at Rachel Carson School on the South Side. (Unfortunately, his contract was not renewed this year.)
- Even more white people rapping in the 60625.
- Scotland Yard Gospel Choir's comeback show at Subterranean certainly was pretty!
- CHIRP has a podcast interview with SYGC who talk about the band's past, present, and future.
- DePaul students write about Chicago's thriving record stores.
- The Onion's A.V. Club features Chicago band Rise Against in their "Undercover" project doing their best Nirvana impression.
- Tweedy knows how to give the audience what they want. Here he is singing/reciting "Single Ladies" (sans leotard).
- Get 10 free songs from Lollapalooza artists.
- Speaking of, Lolla's radius clause policy also recently caught the eye of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
- Donate to WBEZ, get yourself some custom field notes books and swag in the "Sound Opinions Critic's Kit".
- The making of Dylan's album Blonde On Blonde. (via)
- File under "Forgot to post earlier" but here's some video of the Dutchess & the Duke performing from the bar at the Empty Bottle earlier this month. (Actual singing starts around 1:30 in.)
- Got plans for the Fourth? You can combine record shopping (i.e. stimulating the local economy) with feeling patriotic at Laurie's Planet of Sound. Edward Burch to play.
- Chicagoans! We are being beaten by D.C. in the "Best Michael Jackson Shrine" competition! Get to it! (Also, London.) Gary, IN remembers MJ today. (Personally, I think today would be perfect timing for a Thriller zombie walk.)
- It's like Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, but here's John Hodgman, Neil Gaiman and OK GO's Damien Kulash singing "So Happy Together" in St. Paul recently.
- Gold star time. Name all the members of the muppets' band, which features Animal on drums (without using the Google!). Bonus for the full name of the band. Answers in the comments, please. Extra bonus stars for naming which instruments they each play.
