Tagged: creamteam

Almost at the home stretch of the top 5 new artists guest posts now. So far we've had 14 guest posts with a few more to come this week. The 15th post comes via Veronica Murtagh of the deadly Chicago-based music blog

On this ongoing weekly series, in which we dive into the backstages of music blogs, we find ourselves at Chicago's Cream Team and reach out for the thoughts of it's editor/creator, Veronica, (or V to those that know her). We believe that The Recommender relates to her blog in more ways than one; we not only started our blogs in exactly the same month all those years ago, but we were also recruited as one of the blogs on the Strangers In Stereo blog collective - a project she helped to organise. It's with this collective [...]

Were you at The Burlington Saturday night for NOWHERE CLUB ? We had a great time. There were even glow bracelets. Madalyn Merkey took us down a black hole with warped, experimental synth compositions. Sich Mang played an explosive set of "weirdo juke" (as we'll now be calling their genre). And Supreme Cuts smoked the place out. Our very own Moneyworth (3LC) closed out the night with a DJ set of hazy R&B and hip-hop that's [...]

• creamteam - NOWHERE CLUB / 3LC / October 2011

Had a very good time Sunday evening drinking far too many gin & tonics and sharing a few hours of music at the Empty Bottle's Everyone's A DJ series. Seems wasteful to not do something with the pile of songs staring back at me on my laptop. Edited into a single mp3, with a few song swaps and many deletions, I'm happy to share what will be the first of a new monthly playlist series, titled Playful . In the future you can expect wider genre variety and a focus on tracks that [...]

• creamteam - Playful :: September 2011 Playlist

THE RUMBLE: CHICAGO @ THE HIDEOUT - TUESDAY, APRIL 12TH - FREE! Featuring The Great Society Mind Destroyers, Pet Lions & Rambos We're bringing out monthly indie rock party series to Chicago tomorrow night for our first ever RUMBLE: CHICAGO at the coolest place to have a party, THE HIDEOUT . How easy is it to open the list of amazing bands based in Chicago and get to start booking, especially getting amazing insights from our Rumble CHI partners [...]

Well, we have some very exciting news! The Rumble , a multi-city concert event, finally makes its debut in Chicago, its ninth city, on Tuesday, April 12, at The Hideout ! The musical lineup for the show features some of our local favorites including heavy psych rockers The Great Society Mind Destroyers , punchy indie rockers Pet Lions and garage punks The Rambos . Oh, did we mention the show is completely FREE [...]

THE RUMBLE continues to grow - this time opening it's doors in it's 9th city - CHICAGO - on April 12th at The Hideout! The lineup for this first ever event puts together some of our favorites like THE GREAT SOCIETY MIND DESTROYERS , PET LIONS and RAMBOS . As always, the event is FREE to the city of Chicago. See all details surrounding this party HERE. Finding a home for this special event was easy, [...]

Belfast's answer to Moz - Charles Hurts We got tipped off to today's SOTD - CHARLES HURTS - by our new friend with great ears in Chicago, CREAMTEAM , and we're very grateful for the discovery. Frontman Philip Quinn has an obvious MORRISSEY sound to his vocals, but instead of Keats, Yates and Wilde on his side, Quinn brings the morbid into play, a la Poe or Nick Cave. The band are a trio living in Belfast, and it looks like their first [...]

Ok, so we're supposed to be excited about a new Strokes record, and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt after one song, but yesterday I was introduced to PET LIONS and I felt as if I was listening to a young Casablancas. The band are from Chicago, and we have to shout out to CREAMTEAM for this tip, and you can stream their debut record, " Houses " HERE . SONG OF THE DAY: Pet Lions " [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the [...]

I think at this point in modern rock it's safe to say there is some voodoo with priestess deep in the backwater swamps casting spells and gazing into her murky cauldron eyeing her next victim to possess. With a mix of dusty guitars, crackling recording equipment and a choir of her own harmonies in her arsenal, Chelsea Wolfe has submitted herself as the latest siren to the dark songbook. Similar in spirit and tone to certain periods and songs by Marissa Nadler, Soap & Skin, Carina Round, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos—I could [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've had Stuck On [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've had Stuck On Repeat . [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've had Stuck On [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've had Stuck On Repeat . [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've had Stuck On Repeat . [...]