
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 024 with freebie downloads for songs by Urge Overkill, Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, The Lemonheads, The Blake Babies, The Weekend, Woodhands, UNKLE, Tin Star Orphans, The Concretes, The Charlatans, Gospel Claws, Lyrics Born and more! So much more! DATE: 09-16-10 WRITER: Don Loder Awright you so-an'-sos, I ain't gotta lotta time today, so I'll keep his short. "Why haven't you got much time today, Don?" yer askin', but we both know I didn't say it that way. Anyway, [...]

Rollo & Grady is heading to Austin later this week. Almost 2000 bands are participating this year at South By Southwest, and deciding which shows to attend can be overwhelming. After sampling roughly 1200 bands, we selected 200 bands to check out. Many of these artists we've covered in the past, but we've also discovered several new groups that we're excited to share with you. Tomorrow we're highlighting 23 artists that we feel will generate the biggest buzz at (and after) the festival. Adam Green (Myspace) [...]

Marylou Flamingo. So, I wrote a fair bit about Soundscapes in-stores last week . Since that post, they've announced three new dates: Feb. 4th - Bruce Peninsula (@ 7pm - These guys are terrific ), Feb 10th - Hylozoists (@ 6pm - also a very highly rated band), and Feb 24th - Gentleman Reg (@ 6pm - [...]

Image: Mina Magee On Tuesday Chicago was Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Lakes. A late afternoon cloudburst (4 inches in 45 minutes) and our capricious sewers flipped the off switch and hit the picket line; viaducts turned into churning gray sludge pools and generally smooth east-west arteries were sudden stroke victims. I made it by diverted "express" bus as far north as Lake Shore Drive and Addison, then walked the rest of the three miles home. Which wouldn't have been dire if I'd been [...]