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News Fri Jul 22 2011
Friday Quick Links
Thanks to everyone who said Hi at our table at the CHIRP Record Fair during Pitchfork. Great to meet label folk and artists face-to-face and oh, so many cool readers! Now, on to the good stuff.
- Lollapalooza 2011 is now officially SOLD OUT. If you were waiting to buy your tickets, now you'll be stuck with the secondary market.
- Gossip Wolf has a great Pitchfork gossip column (plus, details on Experimental Sound Studio's artist residency program).
- The A.V. Club decided they can put on a pretty awesome music festival, too. As long as there's funnel cakes, I'll be happy.
- Add your knowledge to the Chicago Punk Database.
- Justin Sinkovich at Epitonic breaks down the new Cool Kids album.
- Chicago blog Gozamos interviews local label Trouble In Mind.
- Download a set of (most of) the samples used in the upcoming Kanye and Jay-Z collaboration "Watch The Throne" from Fake Shore Drive.
- Are you ready for Chicago vs. Atlanta? New tape compilation of psych rock bands from our two states called Vital-Sound I hits the shelves next month with lots of cool local art as an added bonus!
- Loving these A.V. Club Undercover...covers of summertime songs. Check out Owen and Les Savy Fav (on a boat!).
- Chet Haze got himself an education (as well as a possible rap career) at Northwestern, that's for sure.
- Love this diptych that GB contributing photographer Kirstie Shanley set up of King Khan and Syl Johnson.
- DeRogatis ruminates on what's next for Lakeside post-Caravan.
- Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon do some service AGAIN to the history of rap. More of this, please.
- Burning up Facebook: When the Beastie Boys met Sesame Street.