PopTodd

I picked up some of this last night, but have yet to try it: Just seemed like something that the wife and I would enjoy. (We both love a nice stout with a good piece of chocolate.) You had it? How be it?

LINK On March 26th, a mind-boggling array of indie rock all-stars will gather to perform Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers at Baruch College's Mason Hall in New York City. Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Mitch Easter (Let’s Active), Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Tift Merritt, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Will Rigby (the dB’s), Matthew Sweet, Chris Stamey (the dB’s), Jody Stephens (Big Star) and M. Ward (She & Him) will be joined by The Lost in the Trees Orchestra with Jane Scarpantoni, Django Haskins (The Old Ceremony), Brett Harris, Sidney Dixon and Matt McMichaels to recreate the original scores and

I am jealous.

"Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" - Waylon Jennings

Brilliant collection of weirdo genius music! Love it!

THIS ONE, I like. But that Kiss song sucks ass... maybe the worst song ever.

The new Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker is currently proposing legislation that would essentially destroy state workers' unions (exempt are police & firefighters, go figure...). Yesterday, more than 10,000 protesters gathered at the capitol, including firefighters who are protesting in solidarity. Today, the Madison public school district is closed because over 40% of the teachers called in sick, in protest. The governor's readied the National Guard, just in case. LINK

"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" - Jet "Do You Feel Like We Do?" - Peter Frampton "Why Why Why Why Why?" - Brinsley Schwarz "Why Not Your Baby?" - Gene Clark

You know that he was Sarah McLachlan's guitar player?

I have Broken (and other rogue states) and think that it's a really wonderful record. I've heard really good things about this new one, too. Looks like I'm gonna need to spend some more money...

"Who Can It Be Now?" - Men at Work "Is That Love?" - Squeeze

"What Do You Do When Love Dies?" - Dusty Springfield "How Can I Be Sure of You?" - Harry Nilsson "I Wonder What They´ll Do With Today" - Jim Ford "Why Do The Hurt The One We Love?" - Brinsley Schwarz "Has She Got A Friend?" - Nick Lowe "Hein?" - Tom Zé "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?" - The Kinks "Rosie Won't You Please Come Home" - The Kinks "Do You Remember Walter?" - The Kinks "Is This It?" - The Strokes "With Whom To Dance?" - Magnetic Fields "How Does It Feel to Feel?" - The Creation "Hey, Buddy, What's Wrong?" - Shrimp Boat "Who's Lovin' You?" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "H

I try to keep it relatively inexpensive, but I still like to sound good. For my acoustic I find that these give me a nice, balanced tone for a pretty good price: (I use 12's.) As to my electric, I go with a classic: Ernie Ball 10's: Is there anything that I NEED to try? Same price? Why would I need to/want to spend more? What do you use?

I'm assuming that has nothing to do with old Emitt Rhodes stuff, huh?

Just trying to heed the rules of "no links", but since you asked it's ChicagoMixtape dot com. How's that?

Glad that I could add some levity to your day. You just brought a smile to my face, as well.

First listen, and a couple of songs in, both of them are really cool. I know that it comes off like I am street teaming, but I am sincere. I am not paid for talking about this site in any way, shape or form. Just genuinely think that it seems like a cool idea. And, so far, so good.

Awesome! You are not off-base. I will check it out and see what's included (because I already have several albums.) Thanks for the heads up!

When you sign up at this sight, you get a new compilation of local music to download each week. I signed up. Seems kinda cool. Hope that it is.