Play "Where Do You Run To!"

Vivian Girls, acoustic set
Permanent Records In-Store
August 30, 2009

"No, we don't play that song live."

Scenes from the past

Brandon: Hey Juan, have you ever listened to the Delgados?

Juan: Are you just asking me because they're Hispanic?

Brandon: No, I'm asking because they're Scottish.

Juan: Oh...ok.

We're number five!

The Society of American Travel Writers has named Chicago the number five city in North America for live music behind New Orleans, New York, Austin, and Nashville. We're followed by Memphis, Montreal, Las Vegas, Branson (, Missouri), and Denver.

Having only been to Chicago I can't say anything about any of those other cities, but it doesn't seem that off base, at least in the top seven. Funny how no west coast cities made the list, although a general "music scene" is probably different from an "indie scene," at least to the Society of American Travel Writers. No Seattle, no San Francisco...hm. Curious omissions, I think, but that's just me.

Still though, hey Chicago!

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This one is for the '88 Oilers

Red Red Meat and Rural Alberta Advantage
Pritzker Pavilion
August 24, 2009
RAA = my new favorite "new" band



"WOOOOO!"
"Hey, you're from Alberta?"
"Absolutely not, but I love that song!"

How many gazebos do you shemales need?

Tom Schraeder.
Wells Park Gazebo.
August 18, 2009.
Great way to spend a summer evening.


'Cause every night is like our first date.

Ted Kennedy has nothing to do with indie rock

but damn, yo.

Time to kick some major ass on health care. Do it for Ted.

The mixtape making process is completely and totally gendered

well duh.