Two relatively new and definitely up-and-coming bands played Chicago’s Abbey Pub last Wednesday night to a raucous crowd. I was o...

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Photo by Craynol Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past year, you know that an election is coming up. You're probably familiar with the players involved; they'v...

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There was some big news announced and confirmed today in the music festival world -- Radiohead, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Jack Johns...

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Blake Lewis is returning to American Idol on Thursday to perform his brand-new single "How Many Words." It is quite frankly one of the few songs...

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Howdy folks. Happy Sunday night. As we take a moment to reflect back on the week that just happened, I'm already seven days ahead...

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WTF?! Something good must be going on with South Central because, yeah, this is our third post on the subject in the past week. Just when you...

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From the Been Meaning To Get To This file, here's a B-side from Robots friends Fourth Of July. Fourth Of July - Heart Attack. Fourth Of July...

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Cute video. Clever concept. Decent song. This one is made to go viral. "After Hours" is taken from We Are Scientist's fortcoming new LP "Brain...

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These United States - First Sight . Remember how a like minute ago in the Colin Meloy post I was talking about how the test of really great...

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