Girl Talk, who was just mentioned earlier this week, just released his new album, All Day. If you like listening to songs, but all of those songs, you can download it for free-zies at Illegal Art. Whether you like mashups, have A.D.D., or just like figuring out which songs are been mixed together, it is definitely better than Joan’s favorite Girl Talk:
Lil’ Pitchfork, Stereogum, has some cool stuff worth noting too:
Wicker Park has a bunch of cool stuff going on, but sometimes there is too much stuff and too many hipsters that it becomes overwhelming to be there very long or very often. Â Same goes for Pitchfork (which is based in Wicker Park). Â But I stumbled upon it today and found some TBB worth stuff:
While not from Pitchfork, here is some news about the new Muppet movie.
After a very long time since whenever their last visit to Chicago, Cake playing the House Of Blues on December 14th. They are playing Q101’s Twisted Christmas, or just Twisted. Cake, who isn’t played much on Q101 normally, is in the middle night by itself because Twisted’s normal lineup of crap hard rock bands won’t mesh very well. Tickets go on sale Friday; anyone in?
Man cannot live off his Ipod alone. Every once in awhile I like to checkout what is going on with the Hype Machine. While I was going to try to string a post together with a list of things that I found on NotCot.org, like this Ninja Turtle Van Remake or a wonderfully animated video about legalizing pot, HypeMachine led me to a post about a recent Jools Holland show. The post features Aloe Blacc, who I have enjoyed ever since I heard his “I Need a Dollar” song, Neil Diamond’s Solitary Man, the Black Key’s cover of “She Said, She Said” (an awesome cover that probably won’t be played on the show).
Most importantly, Paul McCartney will be playing Jools Holland to promote his Band on The Run Reissue, (which is awesome enough) but the article lists a song he did with the Blockheads for an Ian Dury Tribute Album. I only know Ian Dury from his song “Sex and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll,” but isn’t that enough? While he may not have coined the term, that song is fantastic. It’s a lot of ramble just to have the excuse of posting this video:
