When singer/songwriter Rachael Yamagata was growing up, she went to all-girls school that she says warped her into the relationship-obsessed woman she's become, at least in the lyrics of her songs. She began singing with a funk-crazed dance band called Bumpus while she was in college studying theater. While touring and recording with Bumpus, she [...]
Tim Hoover - Numbers (D'Eon Remix)

Wilson Gowan and I are finishing up a summer of sanguine-tinged Thursday evenings of disco, house, early 80's R&B and boogie at Blue Dog with the final Sangria Summer night of the year at the Blue Dog Motel. It's Thursday, August 25th, during the final Saint Laurent street sale of the season. Facebook RSVP and more details here. TIM HOOVER - Numbers (d'Eon Remix) from Moduli TV on Vimeo . [...]

Woven Records commissioned Canadia n rap/poet legend Cadence Weapon to pick and remix parts of Tim Hoover's upcoming instrumental album, More Napkins . The outcome is a dark quasi-dancefloor friendly drum filled romp. Quite stunning to be honest. The remix EP will be available for purchase in September sometime and will include a yet to be heard D'Eon remix (can't wait to hear that one too). Check out Cadence's mix bellow! Tim Hoover - More Napkins (Cadence Weapon Super Computer [...]
Winnipeg based stalwart and king of the scene Tim "DJ Co-Op" Hoover has secretly been making music on his laptop for a year. Now, the cat is out of the bag. More Napkins is 60 minutes long and borrows from the mash-up ethos of yore. Broken beats, symphonic in scope and dynamically driven, More Napkins is the ideal "headphone album". Play 'spot the sample' with your buddies when this thing drops September 13th via local imprints Woven Records (digitally) and Dub Ditch Picnic (casette). Why not finish with some juicy rumours: some [...]
The Los Angeles Times has a tad bit more journalistic integrity than I do, so you're more likely to trust their opinion than you are mine. The reviewer on hand at the Walt Disney Concert Hall was far less impressed than I was with "Paradise Lost." But I wasn't there trying to imagine the concert [...]

Chicago's own Chi Hoover release his latest freestyle "King Shit" as he prepares for the upcoming release of his mixtape Road To Glory. Each week this summer he will drop a freestyle record. DOWNLOAD| Chi Hoover - King Sh*t

New free from Chi Hoover Chi Hoover - Fear God (Freestyle)

Watch out for the shooter. DOWNLOAD| Chi Hoover (Ft. Jon Connor, June Summers & Waka Flocka) - Shooter

Produced by K.E. On The Track. What I remember as a Fat Trel collaboration with June Summers & Waka Flocka now features verses from Flint, MI's Jon Connor and Chicago newcomer Chi Hoover. I'm not mad at this at all. Shooter Chi Hoover feat. June Summers, Waka Flocka & Jon Connor - Shooter (Reloaded)

Words by Rick Moslen Growing up, many of us believed in punk rock but never considered ourselves "punk." We moshed at shows, bought $3 Epitaph compilations, and complained about Green Day not being a real punk band, but despite a few oddly colored hair manifestations, we never looked the part. Then high school arrived and we discovered Fugazi (cue Handel's Hallelujah Chorus). Not only did they look like regular dudes, but their aesthetic was as essential as the music. My high school punk band suddenly sported Fugazi -esque principles: [...]

Humbly presenting another Helvetic Nerd to LessThan3, we welcome the Swiss sensation who goes by EDX . Although born in Italy, Maurizio Colella came in from Zurich to perform quite a show at this year's Ultra Music Festival. Closing out the epic event in the Heineken Dome with a soft melodic hit, his tune Embrace exercises the very best of his abilities with gentle harp strings to form its spectacular harmony. Speaking of Ultra, the track was included on Toolroom's Miami 2011 compilation. Showing that he [...]

Ascoltare certi dischi cercando di capirli aiutandosi con la cartella stampa, talvolta porta ad interrogarsi sul perché di alcune scelte. Prendete il dj Alain Weber , autore di stimate compilation (almeno così ho letto, devo ammettere che prima di infilare il disco nel lettore non sapevo chi fosse) e il suo disco solista, praticamente una colonna sonora imamginaria per film immaginari; l'interrogativo immediato è quello di chiedersi se abbia senso una mossa del genere senza un comparto visivo da accompagnare. La risposta è secca, almeno in questo caso: non ha senso. Il Nostro prende le distanze da [...]
Pretender - Hoover Last night at the Bloodclot Faggots show, a friend of Peter's used the show's location to buy some records in between bands, something that seems not right to me but what do i know? He wanted The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 . He knew he wanted it but he had never heard it. Both for the sake of being social and the sake of having this record in another's hands, i felt i had to sell him on it. [...]
The only way to follow up a night in which you stumble into bed at 3:30 in the morning is to stumble into bed at 4:30 in the morning. It's been a long weekend, folks, and all the over-the-counter pseudoephedrine in the world couldn't keep me from crashing before my work-day ended. I was a busy bee, productive as all hell until about 90 minutes before my shift ended. Then I totally crashed and couldn't function any more. I was so anxious to get out and go home that I left without my computer. Good thing Nicci doesn't [...]

Consider this blog post a plea to the former members of Chicago's greatest hardcore/post-punk/post-rock/j azz band ever, Alex Dunham, Scott Adamson, Craig Ackerman, and Fred Erskine. I have so many questions about this record that need to be answered. I want to know what the hell this album means. I want to know why I can't stop listening to it, why I've literally gone through a dozen CDs over the course of the past five years - though I'm sure several periods of multiple daily listens and giving friends my copies probably answers that - why I keep returning to it. [...]
Kurt Ballou is the guitarist for Converge and runs/is Godcity Recording Studio. In both of these capacities he has been a big part of making some of my favorite music ever. Screw the commonly used term "arguably" – Converge's last record is their best/hardest record yet. And Kurt's recording style presents live-sounding documents of aggressive [...]
Fifteen years after the band's disbandment, Cap'n Jazz is back together. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

COMPILATION: Sunday Brunch Greg Shepherd – Flashbuzz Ozien – Machine Toucan – Retro 87 Ozien – Misunderstanding Fingainthanoze feat. MC Stone – Ruff Dayz Toucan – Hoover West D – Ginga Greg Shepherd – Abdenago Fat Acid – Jacqueline [...]
It has been a very strange - sometimes fun, sometimes agonizing - week. I don't really have much else to say. Here's your Sunday Mix Tape. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. Of course there's a fucking theme [...]