
Dogs On Tour And now three reasons to go forth and celebrate your 2010 NFC NORTH CHAMPION CHICAGO BEARS at the Subterranean tonight... 1. Dogs On Tour isn't so much as band as it is a collective. Comprised of members of numerous Chicago groups including indie outfits The Hudson Branch, Jadiid and more. Their latest release is titled Music for Winter: Volume 2 and can be download for free at Dogsontour.co.cc . The record uses folk, rock and electro-antics to put their own unique spin on [...]
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Sorry for the delay, but here's some additional great christmas music! If I've missed some great releases, I'm sure I have, just post it in a comment! ********** December 2010 EP The Innocence Mission ♫ In the Bleak Midwinter (mp3) + Full EP stream How To Throw A Christmas Party Brown [...]
As regular readers are surely aware, we tend to stay out of the ubiquitous year's-end "best of" fray, leaving compilation to those blogs that focus on the ever-new. In part, that's because we're archivists and folklorists, not tastemakers, here at Cover Lay Down - which is to say, you're just as likely to find a song from last decade as you are a release from last month being presented in our biweekly missives. Too, as a matter of policy and preference, we prefer not to play favorites among the best players, believing that [...]

As christmas is getting closer and snow keeps falling in Switzerland, your ears are getting raped by horrible christmas sound in every single shop. That's why we decided to do several posts about christmas music you're able to listen to "without getting ear cancer." (Famous quote of a friend) First up is a free album that was sent to us by Dogs On Tour , a collection of Chicago artists who combine all kind of genres like folk, electronica, rock and pop to write songs and to reinterpret holiday tunes in a totally new way. Check out two [...]