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Anyone else taking a flyer on it being Jon Brion and buying tickets for the Hideout next Sunday night?

Since there's no option for 11, should we vote once for 10 and once for 1?

Detroit Techno Legend Derrick May is credited with describing Techno, the blend of funk and electronic music that he, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson developed in the Detroit exurb of Belleville, as "...just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It’s like George Clinton and Kraftwerk stuck in an elevator." When the Detroit Electronic Music Festival launched as a free, 3 day music festival Memorial Day weekend 2000, the organizers had no idea whether it would succeed and attract a crowd. 2 years later the festival was still going and the organizers were able to attract the largest crowd and sp

Ah, yeah, some of the bars on that list are subject to qualifications as to when to go. Rainbo, for example, can be the worst bar in Chicago 10pm to close Friday and Saturday nights. Earlier Friday and Saturday evenings and some weeknights it's a good place for a 3.50 pint of good beer, some good tunes and quiet conversation. Old Town Ale House is on there mostly cuz (i) it's a 4 am bar (ii) close to the Hideout. Like any other 4 am bar, Old Town is kind of annoying after 2 am, especially if you aren't totally shit-faced. I don't think I've ever been there earlier than 2 am--there are

Definitely. The far North side has the inner hoods beat for quality, tasty restaurants. Thai Pastry, Tank Noodles, Reza's, all the Ethiopian places in Edgewater--it's kinda far to go up there just to eat unless you live up there. There's not a whole lot else to do, especially with the closing of the Lakeview Lounge ; ) And if you drive up there, it's most likely for Indian food which is nigh impossible to find along the Blue line. Mama Desta's potent, homemade honeywine (most places serve bottled honey wine, it's not as thick as the mead-like stuff Desta's serves) makes up for the hit or mi

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. " and then once out of earshot mercilessly mock its knocked knees and jug ears

SOME OF THE BETTER BARS: Loop: Cal's Liquors bucktown/wicker/east/ukvillage: Inner Town Pub (ITP) Rainbo Gold Star J&M Tap Ola's Liquors Danny's Happy Village Estelle's 4 AM The Continental 4 AM (fmr Famous Pizza Lounge/Arlene's/Club Hiawatha ) Stella's @ Western and Walton--ran into like 1/2 of wilco there one night recently. Along North Avenue East of Wicker Park: Exit Inn 4 AM The Hideout Old Town Ale House 4 AM Lincoln and Diversey: Delilah's Clark and Lawrence: Carol's Pub 4 AM Clark and Belmont: L&L Tavern Armitage between A

RESTAURANTS: Bite --BYOB, right next to the Empty Bottle. Favorite restaurant in Chicago. FEED --BYOB, right next to the Continental. Like if Bloodshot Records sponsored a restaurant. Tamale Guy --goes around to bars that don't serve food in Wicker/Ukie/East Village Muffin Lady--What happened to her? Mama Desta's --Ethiopian food--just north of Belmont on the west side of Clark... terrific food + their home-made honey wine is cheap, strong and tasty. Honey 1 BBQ --formerly far West side BBQ place. Not much for ambiance, great ribs. Thai Eatery --across the street from Hone

SOME DECENT RECORD STORES: These four are all near the Clark/Diversey/Broadway intersection: Gramaphone 2nd Hand Tunes (Djangos) Hi-Fi Records Reckless Records (Broadway & Belmont) North Lincoln: Evil Clown Laurie's Planet of Sound Roscoe Village: Hard Boiled Records Wickertucky: Reckless Records (Wicker Park) RANDOM RETAIL: Where to get kowality, cheap guitars & other musical instruments: Midwest Buy and Sell Like ebay, but IRL: Uncle Fun Best Mindfuck Yet: Quimby's

Looks like tony margherita has an intern/admin playing whack-a-mole with the various blogs posting these songs. anyhow, hypem.com is cool, but its results lag behind this: http://blogsearch.google.com/ search on: wilco sky sort by date ^^^ this is probably how the band's representatives are tracking things you can set up an alert so anytime a new blog entry appears on the internets with wilco sky or sky blue sky or whatever search terms you want to use you'll get an email: http://www.google.com/alerts?t=4&hl=en...ky&ie=UTF-8

http://blogsearch.google.com/ search on: wilco sky sort by date http://www.amatecon.com/fish.html

I dunno how much of the difference is logistics and capacity, problems they can solve (one hopes), and how much of it is expanding the size and having the stages and housing more dispersed with 3x's the people. Seems like they expanded the proceedings to the point where maybe they lost (quite?) a bit of what made ATP UK especially enjoyable. Probably mostly a matter of whether you're coming from the UK or Northern Europe vs from across an ocean--if this festival were in a resort 3 hours away on a beach in western Michigan, it'd be a no brainer to go, Queues Of Doom be damned. But a 7

oops, my evangelizing "by far the best music festival experience I've had. Intimate, friendly, accessible, relaxing festival experience." Camber Sands = 2,500 Butlins Minehead = 6,000 No wonder it's not yet sold out. Cuz it was so small, previous ATP's at Camber Sands would sell out by December at the latest on only the announcement of the curator. People who went to ATP @ Camber Sands enjoyed the experience of that intimate a music festival and wanted to return regardless of the details of the lineup. I'm not saying I wouldn't go to the new location for an ATP. But if it were a

Old 97's opened for Wilco in November '99. Handsome Family opened for the 4 piece Wilco September 2001 (other times as well, I imagine) tour. Elf Power opened some of the later shows on that 2001 post 9/11, pre YHF release tour. All great shows by all 4 bands, even though Handsome Family received a mix reception from the Wilco faithful at the time. Old 97's|WILCO shows were F I R E.

Mike Doughty - Frog and Banjo.

Hellwood 'Chainsaw of Life' the Broken Family Band: You're Like A Woman (I Don't Have Time To)Mess Around John Belushi

Write-in vote for "Recreational Pharmaceuticals" or maybe just "Thax, Drugs and Henry/Sue Miller"