Posted: May 5th, 2009 | Author: Brian | Filed under: Chicago, hip hop, indie rock | Tags: Free, Girltalk, Hood Internet, Indie, Mashup, mp3, Music, The Hood Internet | No Comments »
Comprised of DJ STV SLV and ABX, The Hood Internet represent the future of the mash-up. Gone are the days where you mix one song with another song just because you can, or because they share a strange time signature, or because they make a hilarious song title. Technology is such (and GirlTalk has shown) that there is a way to mix any song with any another song and make it sound good. The next step, the step Hood Internet is going in, is voluntary restraint for the sake of clarity and craft — in this case, restricting the mix to only bands that share the city they all hail from. Also, it’s my City, so I’m biased.
The best part? It ’s FREE
Posted: March 7th, 2008 | Author: Brian | Filed under: Chicago, festival, indie rock | Tags: Apteka, Austin, Bound Stems, Cameron McGill, Chicago, Entertainment Weekly, Eztra Furman & the Harpoons, Hollywood Holt, Icy Demons, JT and the Cloust, Killer Whales, Make Believe, Mittens on Strings, Pit Er Pat, Reds and Blue, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, South by Soutwest, SXSW, Sybris, Texas, The Hideout, The Hood Internet, Thight Phantomz, Tom Schrader & His Ego, Waco Brothers | No Comments »
Chicago’s fortunate to have a super-supportive (nay, incestuous?) music scene, many of whom have roots back to a lil’ place called The Hideout. So who better than Hideout to host “Sending the Four Star City to the Lone Star State” party? The mini-fest is a fundraiser for all the bands travelling’ down to the Sundance Film Festival, oop, I mean South By Southwest in Austin.
Performing is a laundry list of the city’s faves, some of whom will soon be called “indie buzz bands” by Entertainment Weekly or something. A mere $10 gets you into this shizzle:
12:00 - Sybris
12:45 - Apteka
1:30 - Cameron McGill
2:15 - Mittens on Strings
3:00 - JT and the Clouds
3:45 - The Hood Internet (DJ STV SLV)
4:30 - Hollywood Holt
5:15 - Bound Stems
6:00 - Make Believe
6:45 - Reds and Blue
7:30 - Pit Er Pat
8:15 - Waco Brothers
9:00 - Tight Phantomz
9:45 - Killer Whales
10:30 - Icy Demons
11:15 - Tom Schraeder & His Ego
12:00 - Ezra Furman & the Harpoons
12:45 - Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Rounding down, that’s like, $0.72 a band. Your door cover will let you go in & out for the whole day (like there’s anything else to do on Wabansia & Elston), but it will be packed by the end of the night. -Brian Howe Battle