Hello Handsome is the one-girl garage pop project of Sarah K. On her MySpace she lists influences from the TVPs to Sonic Youth. What I'm hearing on "Courting Song" are things like Cub, Bunnygrunt, and a little bit of Bratmobile. It's pretty solid grrrl pop and the totally fantastic, almost blues-y, lead-in to the song's finishing coda is surprising and pretty memorable – memorable enough for me to tell you that you HAVE to listen to it. [MP3]: Hello Handsome :: Courting Song (Highly Rec'd!!) Hello Handsome [...]
Sports Are King In Chicago The past couple weeks we've been dropping in some sporting posts as the time of year has brought on major excitiment in the city's teams. We held off until today for the post waiting for...
Better get used to this, there's gonna be baseball galore all over the city for the next couple weeks at the least. WGN is airing the All-Time All Chicago Team, a look at the best players ever from the city's...
The Soriano Affair Well not all the Cubs news is good these days. Seems like star player Alfonso Soriano might be caught up in an extra marital affair. Here is the report and more pictures. The evidence is flimsy and...
There's No Time For Next Year Just as this season is ramping into over-drive, the 2009 Cubs Schedule is here. Interleague games all against AL Central. White Sox looks like this. Games in the interleague of note - Milwaukee and...
Chicagoans are cautiously optimistic about the Cubs these days and Eddie Vedder has jumped in on the action, recording a song called "All The Way" at the behest of Ernie Banks. Is Pinella the cure for the curse? We shall see... Eddie Vedder - All The Way, Live at the Vic in Chicago (courtesy of Jeff Vrabel ) You can buy a better quality live version for $1 at Pearl Jam direct .
There Is Info You Really Should Know Coudal Partners - eclectic website Mic Terror Mixtape leak w/ many Chi-Heavy hitters What about the '08 Cubs, the 1908 Cubs? Damien and Stephen Marley - new video Free Night of Theater tickets...
Fall is a great sports time only if your baseball team is still in the mix. So for Chicago, that's both our teams. There will be lots of news about the Cubs and Sox over the next couple weeks, so...
Here Comes The Weekend Friday morning started early with our radio show on WLUW, then to an appointment, now the Cubs game and later a Comedy Tour Going Away Party. Full day - rock the weekend folks. And we'll see...
Weekend Party Chatter - Sports And Weather Usually the stuff of lame diner parties and awkward double dates, we're going to drop in some thoughts on both the weather and sports from the weekend because 1) the two were very...
(Via Brooklynvegan ) On Sunday afternoon, the members of Wilco were the honorary guest conductors at Wrigley Field during the seventh inning stretch of the Cubs game. Cardinals fans, get ready to have a heart attack: They were all wearing Cubs jerseys . (Video evidence below.) But in an ensuing interview, Tweedy makes amends for his sartorial choice, by admitting he grew up in Belleville as a Cardinals fans -- and then sheepishly says, "although I don't think they'll have me anymore...this airs in St. Louis, [...]
It was in the 90s in Long Beach this weekend so I spent the weekend getting some sun (and sweating to death) at the beach. To celebrate the great weather enjoy some Beach Boys tunes, and if it's dreary where you are hopefully this adds a little sunshine to your day. I was a Bangles fan from elementary school, and into Matthew Sweet in high school, it's pretty awesome to see these two working together. Their voices flow effortlessly together on all the tracks from the excellent album Under The Covers, Vol. 1. [...]
It was in the 90s in Long Beach this weekend so I spent the weekend getting some sun (and sweating to death) at the beach. To celebrate the great weather enjoy some Beach Boys tunes, and if it's dreary where you are hopefully this adds a little sunshine to your day. I was a Bangles fan from elementary school, and into Matthew Sweet in high school, it's pretty awesome to see these two working together. Their voices flow effortlessly together on all the tracks from the excellent album Under The Covers, Vol. 1. [...]
a picnic my chinchilla they don't www.cygnals.com/cub How's this for exciting news: Mint Records has reissued cub's 1993 release Betti-Cola ! And clearly the people cannot get enough of cub, as they are yet again placing on all the college charts. Frankly the way I see it is this: either you love cub or you don't. And if you're the kind of person that just cannot get [...]
The Final Top Ten! The results are in! First of all, I just want to thank all of you that contributed. I never expected to have that many nominations/votes, it was just fantastic! So thanks! But enough of that, below is the Top Ten you've all been waiting to see. You all chose these bands, and thusly, according to you, this is the Royal Court Of Twee ! If you're unfamiliar with these bands, or wondering why they , out of [...]
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