David Butler, of Manchester University’s School of Arts, Histories and Cultures is working to record the collection.
“The next thing that we want to do is make the archive available to everyone who wants to hear it,” he says. “But also this has to be a living, breathing archive so we are going to commission new works as well.

So apparently Dr. Dre, Interscope Chairman Jimmy Lovine and Monster Cables are going to drop some serious headphone science on us come July 25th.

“Beats by Dr. Dre” headphones will come in a beautifully designed carrying case with anti-microbial cleaning cloths, a special Monster headphone cable, a mini-stereo to ¼-inch stereo cable adapter, as well as Monster’s iSonitalk, a microphone/headphone adapter for iPhones.”

Now if only you could plug it into a bong….then you’d REALLY hear what Dre hears.
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The Interview Show is a once a month show where Bazer, the host, talks with local celebrities. This month, guests consisted of local artist and musicians with bands like The Mekons and Waco Brothers, Jon Langford, author of Nixonland, Rick Perlstein, WGN radio midday host John Williams, and local Hip-Hop artist C. O. Any.
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Keep it safe and cool! Enjoy the shows.

Friday, July 18th

Pitchfork Music Festival + CHIRP Record Fair!!!
Union Park
5pm-10pm

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If you were going to say Feist, you’d be wrong:
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When Dunning approached his friend Julio “Stuart” Davis about taking part in the project, Davis said “yes” immediately, even though he’d never heard of Kate Bush. Dunning gave him a selection of songs on a mix to chose from, but steered him towards “There Goes a Tenner”.
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Here’s an easy and accurate way to review that record.

First you think of something that would have a government pamphlet about it, and put that term or subject into google.
Let’s take STD’s for example.

Now copy the text from the pamphlet and judiciously replace key words with the name of the band.
Your end result should look something like this……
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Don’t quite get the joke? Maybe you should read up on the original Decembrists, the rebels in a Russian uprising in December of 1825.

Hope you are saving up your energy for the CHIRP Record Fair and Other Delights next weekend, but here are some events in case you get bored in the meantime. See you soooooon!

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to die by your side
the pleasure, the priv’lege is mine
take me home, tonight
take me anywhere, i don’t care

Morrissey wrote those lines a long time ago. I’ve been listening to this song, covered by somebody I don’t know, on a Rough Trade compilation I bought in London in the spring of 2006. It hits home. I came to the Smiths in college in 1988, a few years after I had bought my first cassette tapes: Never Mind the Bollocks, The Cure: Standing on a Beach, and VU & Nico. All purchased in Greenwich Village in 1985. Shortly thereafter I made the tennis team in high school listen to Catching Up With Depeche Mode, played on a crappy boombox on a concrete court.
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Have a great holiday weekend! Kaboom

Here are our picks-and stay safe!

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I turned 38 and my wife took me out to Violet Hour. Duck meatballs, 22 year rye whiskey, A.H. Hirsch Select. Now I want something else for when I turn 39 and then 40. If Chicago is the new destination for emerging and established chefs, here’s my two cents on a way to differentiate their establishments.
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Here are our picks!

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it hides in bottles, it’s watching me, you can’t run or it will see

last year I read books on trains, all my papers and pants had stains

bought a used coat, went to court, took the pill outside the airport

insomniactivationalize, bleach it out before it dies, before it decides,

before it realizes, before it compromises, before it crystallizes, into something

our friends they’re not here anymore, I dream of knobs on closed doors

birdfeeders tennis and coffee your mother called

she was unhappy.

uneasiness stirring from deep, it’s unseasoned and

poison from deep

we drink and talk, but never crowd, we talk alike, but never aloud, never aloud

never aloud, never aloud, never aloud, I was never allowed to be

our friends they’re not here anymore, I dream of knobs on closed doors

streaming pages of hip band tours, I don’t fight no civil wars

it’s been smeared across the sky, it’s watching me where I lie

the stones in her pockets made her shiver, the egglayer drown in

indian giver

our friends they’re not here anymore, I dream of knobs on closed doors

streaming pages of hip band tours, I don’t fight in civil wars

our friends they’re not here anymore, I dream of knobs on closed doors

streaming pages of hip band tours, I don’t fight in civil wars

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James Brown’s Dance Moves

Here are our picks!

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DJs Carrie Weston and Chris Widman spin some of the best electronic music at this benefit for the Chicago Independent Radio Project.

Things get underway at 10pm, with drink specials like $2 PBR and $5 ruby red Yachtsmans.

There’s no cover, but 15% of the bar will go to CHIRP, thanks to our good friends at Rodan. This will help us start our new online station later this summer, all while we continue to work to change the law so we can also bring a new broadcast station to Chicago.

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Food Science Trivia Time!
Name the food product based solely on the nutrition facts. Answers at the bottom. Isn’t food science fun?!?!?

#1
Total fat:16g
Cholesterol:0g
Sodium:150mg
Total Carb:7g
Fiber:2g
Sugars:3g
Protein:7g
Iron:4%DV

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