My other CITU&SIO columns thus far have been very high-profile (at least in our world, natch) releases with quite a bit of collective attention from the blogosphere, and my assessments more or less jived with the general consensus. Enter Bishop Allen & The Broken String, the sophomore LP from this prolific group of Harvard alums […]

Jeff Tweedy’s all for German engineering. Unless you live under a rock rock, you know by now that Wilco has licensed the entirety of Sky Blue Sky to Volkswagen for use in a series of commercials that the hipper-than-thou car manufacturer will run through the summer of 2007.
I’m torn on this little dance. On the […]

Jack White’s entire week was ruined by one fan with a bit of influence and a lot of airtime. DJ Electra, who handles afternoons on Chicago alterna-giant Q101, was fortunate enough to stumble across a full version of the White Stripes’ forthcoming and very much anticipated album Icky Thump. She did what any act-before-you-think superfan […]