Before I go, I bid you good weekend with this hot-off-the-presses tidbit. It’s Junior Senior and Lil Jon, and it’s pretty sweet.
Junior Senior vs. Lil Jon - Can I Get Low
Not quite as sweet as my fav mashup of all time, Car Stereo (Wars) Ghostface/Ghostland Observatory jam, but it’s close. You be the judge:
Car […]

In less than an hour, I’ll pack up my laptop, check my earplug supply, and trek over to Chicago’s Union Park to start the 55 or so hours I’ll spend there this weekend. Lucky for you, they’ve got the whole park rigged up with that there fancy wireless Internet thingamajig, so you can check back […]

Earlier this week, I spent a couple of minutes talking with my friend Jim Bianco after his show at Schubas here in Chicago. Jim is one of about ten artists who I’ve come to know through the Los Angeles coffee shop-cum-swanky-bar-and-performance lounge, the Hotel Café. First intros came at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, […]

Dear Spoon, how I love you…let me count the ways:
1. All of Girls Can Tell
2. “Sister Jack”
3. “I Turn My Camera On” in a Jaguar commercial (I’m sorry, it was perfect)
4. Britt’s unabashed, awkward hipster dancing at the Pitchfork Music Festival after party 2006.
Spoon is one band that, like Wilco and the White Stripes at […]

I got an email at work today about contributing songs to the “X-Independent-Weekly-Paper-Where-I-Work Mix” for the annual Rock For Kids charity auction here in Chicago. RFK is an organization dedicated to providing opportunities for homeless or otherwise disadvantaged kids around here by tapping into the love that they optimistically believe exists in the cold, black […]