Ooooh, sweet vinyl…the only thing cooler than owning a single from one of the year’s most solid, old fashioned rocknroll records is owning it for free. Yeah, dudes - I’ve got a 7″ of Langhorne Slim’s “Rebel Side of Heaven” b/w “Sometimes” for one lucky NDFY reader, and all you have to do is […]

The potential vote on the promoter’s ordinance took precedent over TWISTDAT last week, but we’re back at it as usual today. Somewhat slim pickins this week, but White Rabbits on Tuesday and the big Flameshovel show on Sunday are definite highlights. I caught Drug Rug at SXSW this year and fell for their sunny-with-bite boy-girl […]

‘Pop’ is short for ‘popular music,’ often because it’s comforting in its predictability. Certain chord changes just sound right, and are easily digested by folks with myriad different levels of music consumption. How then do you explain the success of Montreal-via-Vancouver’s Wolf Parade, a band making music that’s structurally ‘pop‘ but consistently dares to throw […]

MP3: Ratatat- Shiller from LP3 (US July 8th, Beggars Group/XL)
Electro-prog duo, Ratatat, make an addition to Classics later this summer. The track opens up with an X-Files inspired rumbling before breaking into their signature noodling towards the later half.
MP3: The Radio Dept.- Freddie and the Trojan Horse from as of now untitled EP (June […]

The City of Chicago has taken the so-called ‘promoter’s ordinance’ off the voting docket for their meeting tomorrow, no doubt in part due to the crush of calls, emails, and faxes that flooded into aldermen’s offices across the city over the past 2 days. When I called, I was asked for my name, address, and […]