Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • The Sun-Times notes that Lollapalooza attendees will notice more private security guards and high fences at this year's festival. The measures aim to keep out gate-crashers and protect Grant Park's greenery. • Jim DeRogatis has the details on how Eddie Carranza, owner of the Congress Theater, has teamed up with internet advertising and marketing firm Doejo [...]
ABX - Grown Up Has No Trigger (Danny Brown vs Dirty Projectors) Download: direct via Raptorhideout | Soundcloud The Hood Internet heads to the West Coast today for a handful of shows with Psalm One and Tanya Morgan (check the tour dates on the right), but we've got some friends playing shows in Chicago tonight ( Sleep Out record release show) and this weekend ( Lasers and Fast and Shit [...]
TSOI surprisingly has a lot of bands who read the site and it's always a treat when a reader submits their own group and it ends up being really good. Quinn from Chicago's Sleep Out has been a long-time reader and has actually supplied me with some of the footage that you will find in the TSOI archives. I've written about his band before, but they have a new-ish record out which he forwarded to me. I have to say, the first song off of the new record "Not Even Dust" [...]
Whew, rain has finally come to the ATL, but now it's just hot AND humid. I'm knee-deep in projects and contracts, and barely know what's going on this weekend, but I've got some good music for you, whatever you're up to. Not much else to say, so just enjoy the weekend and the download! Tracklisting: Beau Jennings - Tulsa Sound Bloc Party - Mercury [...]
Sleep Out - "Graceland Cemetery" from the forthcoming album Not Even Dust on Two Thumbs Down Records. Sleep Out - Graceland Cemetery Download audio file (9bfb5ee1-4735-450c-929d-c535e 35f4608.mp3)
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week we are featuring songs from bands that will be performing at Engine Studios during our broadcast in Chicago on July 16-18 . Today’s featured selection, chosen by Afternoon Show host Cheryl Waters, is Graceland Cemetery by Sleep Out from the 2008 album Not Even Dust on Two Thumbs Down [...]
Usually I try and use this site to post hard-to-find stuff in my music collection (demos, live recordings, vinyl only, etc.) that you won't be able to come across anywhere else, but I also get a ton of submissions from bands, labels, and promotions departments for new bands. I listen to all of them, but I don't think I've ever posted any unsolicited tracks. Not because they are bad (which frankly, most them are), but mainly because you can find the same songs on a dozen other sites, so why waste my time posting the same thing as everyone else. [...]
Sleep Out - It Wasn't Darkness When you're on vacation for too long, Tuesday starts to feel like the new hump day. You need things to get you up and moving. For me, today this came in the form...
Ok, here is the deal. Recently I've been trying to spend more than one day featuring bands from the same city or area. It won't happen all of the time but if you see that I am featuring something from a location even remotely close to where another good artist is based please let me know. Deal? After nosing around a bit at one of the best music blogs there is , I found another great ORD band. Alan asked a couple of quick questions you should check out. Yep, we are staying [...]
Sleep Out sleep and live in Chicago where they recently celebrated their signing to March Records (Btw, their record release for the debut album, I Was Your Shroud, is July 14th at Schubas in Chicago with Bloodshot Records artists, Cordero). Not surprising, as the band consists of members of Mt. St. Helens and Kleenex Girl Wonder, the latter a standout on the March Records label. Their debut
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