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Blog Fri Jan 07 2011
Friday Quick Links
When we're not exchanging trees for mulch, we're exploring music stuff online:
- Did you get missed at the New Year's Day Hood Internet show at Lincoln Hall? Someone wants to find you!
- Local jazz musicians take the shuttering of the Velvet Lounge for an opportunity to open a new music venue nearby. They'll launch on January 21st with the L26 Restaurant and Lounge.
- Video of Chuck Berry addressing his loving fans after he left the stage due to illness at the Congress Theater on January 1st.
- Common talks about his book The Anthology of Rap and about the future of the genre.
- Free Walter Meego!
- Get a free Best of 2010 Sampler from Bloodshot Records on Amazon.
- If you missed out on Yeasayer's NYE and NYE-E shows at the Metro last week, you can still get a dose of them live by paying "what you want" for their Life At Ancienne Belgique album which was just released digitally.
- Best albums of 2010 that you probably haven't heard of, much less heard, at Big Rock Candy Mountain. I totally approve. [Here's #33-21 and #55-34. Oh, and a list of favorite 2010 re-issues, as well.]
- And a list of a lot of albums you probably are listening to, courtesy of the Pitchfork 2010 Readers' Poll.
- A fan mashup combines beloved muppets and Kanye's latest "Monster." (NSFW or your impressionable kids)
- The Chicago Reader interviews up and coming Chicago rapper, Rockie Fresh. I dig that tshirt!
- Who's bidding for your summer concert experiences?
- Your favorite record album, beautifully reimagined.[Check out the sweet Andrew Bird album, and Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise.]
- Film within a film time with soundguy Colin Leneman's short piece about shooting the North Coast Music Festival titled "Figuring It Out". Congrats to him and former GB-er Brent Kado on pulling off their festival documentary (which is still in the editing mode)!
- Need a reason to test out those new speakers? Check out this 12-CD mp3 compilation of female-fronted heavy metal bands from 1976-1989. The title of the project lacks some imagination, Female Fronted Metal, but the music doesn't!