
Another weekend another "fest" in Chicago. This one comes at a good price (gate donation of a lincoln) and probably sans quite a few hipsters compared to Pitchfork. There are certainly some great electronic/hip hop groups making appearances (notably Prefuse 73 and Eliott Lipp ). The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Sabertooth (great jazz quartet from Chicago that hold it down at the Green Mill ), The Thermals, Dearborn and electronica jammers Future Rock will all be there. Some might dismiss this thing as a bit of [...]
( If you are viewing this in facebook click here ) Well I waited a little longer this year to begin the Summer Camp Artist Series, and I've made a couple changes. I'm going to present all four days of the festival one at a time rather than having a post for every artist in attendance. Hopefully this will still give everyone a chance to hear something from every artist playing before they get to Chillicothe. The artists are ordered by time of show. My personal picks, and where you'll most likely find me [...]

Future Rock (FR) the progressive house electronic outfit from Chicago Illinois is taking their sound on the road. One of their stops? Good old Burlington Vermont's metropolis with all 38,889 of its city folk (it is the largest city in Vermont). Its not often that a band that I am interested and that has that electronic sound, that I dig, makes it within my visiting radius. Future Rock 's debut album Sugar Coated Bullets out in 2006 is of that Daft [...]