Adult Swim + Ghostly International

Need I say more? I’m not going to patronize you all with explaining wtf adult swim is (if you dont know, use god damn google). Ghostly International however might be someone you haven’t heard of. They are an [effin amazin] indie electronic record label started in Ann Arbor, MI back in 1999. I first heard […]

Predicting a killing at Smartbar

You will probably be dead to me if you dont attend the FREE (that means it has a global monetary value of nothing) show featuring Bloody Beetroots, LA Riots, and Felix Cartal tomorrow night (evening of the 23rd pending when you read this). [link] exhibit A Any of those solo should be reason enough, but […]

Holy Juiceboxxx Batman!!

hint: i care about the may 3 show I just read on IHEARTCOMIX in regards to yet another one of their amazing talents who’s setting up a handful of tour dates, and they’re coming to Chitown bitches. “how the fuck do i get down?” JUICEBOXXX is the rap/club/thrash producer/crowd-killer/amp-jumper that’ll be playing along side with […]

Bloody Beetroots & LA Riots encore…

l’asino calciando da treWhen MSTRKRFT strolled into down last month, they brought with them west coast rippers LA Riots, and the best italian duo with spiderman masks, The Bloody Beetroots. Many at the show will say that these two even upstaged the canadian headliners (for the record, I should note that every set there was […]

Digitalism is the BIGGEST party EVER!!

[when we last heard from the little-blog-that-could… we were learned on how SMD can still do the small things for their fans. In a continuing quest to show how the little-city-that-could can host some world-class bangers] snikt! or shlukt!… either way it’s better than you [art by tsutomu nihei] When considering 2007’s best electro… if […]

"YO BARKEEP, TWO HEINEKENS!!"

[when we last visited our friendly neighborhood electro blog, we were discussing how drab of a city Chicago is from an outsiders’ perspective, while I was attempting to disprove said claim] hipsters encompassing the infamous Sonotheque ‘bubble’ So a week or so after MSTRKRFT pwn3d the ish out of chitown, came one incredible week for […]

me.no.wah me.likey

Our friends at Beats presents: Hot Biscuits just made a post with a brilliant title… “DUNNNNNNNN!!!”. Give it a sec, let it sink in… that’s right, that could only mean one thing: GENESIS!!! I know I just posted a set of remixes from Justice’s album-of-the-year a few days ago, but that was before I read […]

Lollapalooza 08 lineup ‘officially’ revealed

Last Thursday, our friends at the Chicago Sun-Times thought that we all deserved a bit of info ahead of schedule. For those that couldn’t wait the extra few days until the lineup was ‘officially’ revealed, Jim DeRogatis (the same el douche who dislikes Vampire Weekend because they were wearing sweaters at SXSW in 92 degree […]

MSTRKRFT PWNS CHITOWN

Those damn Canadians did it again and showed us lame Americans that there’s more to good dance and electronica music than what MTV and Top100 radio forces us down our listening throats at the clubs each weekend (regardless of the preconceived notions of the venue at Vision). The ridiculously cold night (in March) warmed up […]