Stream: True Widow

Not sure if this will be up for much longer, but NPR is streaming the new True Widow album. Have a listen, see if you like it (hint: you should like it), and then come in and pick up a copy at saki, thus earning yourself a spot on the guest list for their 5/7 show at The Bottom Lounge with Surfer Blood & ...Trail of Dead. It's what they call a "win win" situation.

Moon Duo remixes

Anyone who's thinking about picking up Moon Duo's brand new LP Mazes should consider that it comes with an awesome bonus disc of remixes from Sonic Boom, Purling Hiss, Psychic Ills & more! The price of the album is worth it for the bonus disc alone. So stop thinking and just act! Act with your wallet!

We Are (in) Logan Square

...and I Am Logan Square thinks you should come visit us this weekend for the official opening of Matthew Ginsberg's Repsychled Records Vol. 1. We think that's a pretty solid endorsement, right? I mean they ARE Logan Square, so they should know...

More SXSW photos - Day 2!

Just when you thought we were SXSW-out'd, here some more photos of some of my favorite events:
Colin Stetson and his master circular breathing-mega saxophone playing @ NPR party

tUnE-yArDs @ NPR party

WILD FLAG - kickin' everyone's ass @ NPR party

Just one of many, many food trucks...


La Sera cute-ing things up at the CHIRP sponsored Hardly Art Fag party

Sweaters, awesome pop/rock group from LA @ Bat Bar



My Education closes out the night at the Hideout. If you've never heard of them, then you should . Much like Godspeedyoublackemperor! There are also 12 of them and only my one small iphone camera - so this is about the best I could do, but it doesn't nearly catch all of their grandeur.

CM&WA New Video for "Houdini"

Stream CM&WA -Is A Beast

Can't wait to hear Mr. McGill's new record, Is A Beast?(in your local indie music shop April 12th) Step 1) Inhale slowly and tell yourself that everything is going to be okay. Step 2) Click the above link and enjoy an early ear peek of the album.

New Releases @ saki 3/29/11!

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Radiohead - King of Limbs CD & LP
Bibio - Mind Bokeh CD & LP
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong CD & LP
Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck CD & LP (We DO NOT have the bonus cassette! Sorry!)
Moon Duo - Mazes (Comes with a bonus remix CD featuring Sonic Boom, Psychic Ills, Gary War & Purling Hiss!) CD & LP
Obits - Moody, Standard & Poor CD & LP
Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Forgotten Soul of the 60's & 70's DVD
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens... CD & LP (Buy it @ saki & go to their show w/ Surfer Blood & ...Trail of Dead for FREE!)
V/A - Cult Cargo: Salsa Boricua De Chicago CD
Peter Bjorn & John - Gimme Some CD & LP
Naked On The Vague - Twelve Dark Moons CD & 12"
Chalk Circle - Reflection LP
Residents - Meet The Residents CD
Hunx & His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love CD & LP
Little Annie - Various reissues
The Books - Lost & Safe reissue CD & LP
Wipers - Silver Sail & The Herd reissue LPs
Vee Dee - S/T LP
Michael Hurley - Have Moicy! reissue LP
V/A - Folk & Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 1 LP
Apache Dropout - S/T LP
Panic - 13 reissue LP
UV Race - Homo LP
Spectre Folk - Blackest Medicine Vol. 2 LP
The Sandwitches - Mrs. Jones' Cookies LP
Robert Pete Williams - Louisiana Blues CD & LP

Buy It At saki See It For FREE! Surfer Blood!

Surfer Blood, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead & True Widow are playing at The Bottom Lounge (presented by our buddies at CHIRP) on May 7th!

Buy ANY item from ANY of those bands at saki between now and then, you can go to the show for FREE! Yuuuuuuuuuup.

THE NUGE sets it STRAIGHT (as he always did & does)

Dear Baby Jebus, please make Ted Nugent President. Sure, the world would probably end, but I ain't got kids, so what do I care? I'm also gonna go ahead and throw this out in the wind - I bet Ted Nugent has never locked himself out of his own office. Just sayin'. Sure he's er, frowned upon by certain folks, but hey - everybody shit their pants when they were young - just like everybody else. Just sayin' - I don't hear Thom Yorke speaking out on this (for obvious reasons, he's British, and a pud).

To quote the Nuge's Washington Times article:

"The President has said America is 'acting in the interest of the US' by bombing Lybia. As of this writing, America has fired at least 120 missiles into Lybia. Are we prepared to fire 1120 missles at about a million bucks a shot in order to topple Col. Gadhafi, to whom the United States granted a visa just a few years ago so he could threaten to live in a big tent while he attended the den of thieves meeting at the United Nations?...Please tell us Mr. Obama: Just what are those interests that are so precious that America will put military lives in harm's way and spend tens of billions of dollars more hat we don't have bombing Lybia and enforcing a no-fly zone?"

(Wang Dang Sweet Poon Tang!)

Official Opening: Repsychled Records, Vol. 1 at saki!

Opening Saturday, April 2nd from 6-9pm

saki is pleased to announce the exhibition of works on vinyl by Matthew Ginsberg for the month of April. The heavy psych-rock band Dark Fog, which features Ginsberg on bass, will be performing at 8pm on the night of the opening.

Ginsberg’s pieces embody the hazy, psychedelic atmosphere that Dark Fog conjures up, while the flowing lines and bold colors within his work create an ambience all their own. Ginsberg’s pieces are all multimedia works on discarded vinyl LPs and 78s. A classic example of “one man’s trash is another’s treasure,” Ginsberg’s work urges you to take a second look at that scratched up disc you flipped by in the record bin, reminding us that vinyl works as both artifact and art. Although the opening is guaranteed to be a night of psychedelic bliss, his pieces will be up for the entire month of April for purchase or simply, admiration.

Free Download: Geronimo!

Geronimo!, who will be playing at saki in a few weeks (on April 9th) with The Part Five and Dick Wolf! are offering their 9-track album Fuzzy Dreams for FREE download at their Bandcamp page. Now when a band says, "Here! Take our music. It's FREE!" Who are you to say no?? Also, Fuzzy Dreams is really good...

Benefit for the Recovery in Japan

AVAILABLE TODAY: a 64 track compilation album dedicated to the victims and survivors, their families, and the aid workers courageously struggling to deal with the aftermath of the March 11th earthquake in Japan. 100% of the proceeds from your purchase of this release will go to the Japanese emergency response organization Civic Force. Download the album here

Eric plays the drums

I'm not a big fan of KISS or Foo Fighters, but I am a fan of this guy...

Lemme Askew....Ed Askew's "Imperfiction" = 7.4 on Pitcchfork

Well, folk me! Folk everybody, for that matter! Ed Askew's Imperfiction (Drag City) receives a 7.4 from the flippers at Pitchfork of the dot-com's. See what those humbuckers had to say ~

"7.4"

"Askew laid down Imperfiction on a two-track recorder armed with just a harpsichord, harmonica, a tiple - his favored instrument, a sort of short-necked 10-string acoustic guitar -- and his voice. The pairing of all that frail instrumental treble, Askew's prickly, just-behind-the-beat-singing, and his weirdly regal tumble-out melodies gives Imperfiction a richness that does well by it's underlying fragility."

"Ed Askew's 1968 debut, Ask the Unicorn, remains one of acid-folk's farthest-out relics, the product of a freshly blown mind working his way through big cosmic questions. 1970's Little Eyes cuts its planetary curiosity with more terrestrial concerns....Just what happened between Little Eyes and 1984's Imperfiction is a bit unclear, lots of wandering, some painting, and little in the way of music-making. Still, the gravity of those years echoes in Askew's throat as he sings his way through the brittle, haunted Imperfiction, the rare lost album that geniunely feels adrift."

(What can you do in a crazy world? Write a song, sing it well, la-la-la.)

CTD @ SXSW 2011 Day 1

Brook and I had the pleasure of representing CTD/saki at SXSW this year. Between the two of us, we've accumulated many, many pictures of bands, food, scenery and good times. Here is a photo montage of my favorite things from Day 1:

After a early as balls flight, we land in Austin in the afternoon and meet with Patrick, president of CTD and former resident of this fair city. This means: he knows ALL of the best places to eat. We started off with veggie tacos at Magnolia Cafe




Stopping in to the record store mecca that is Waterloo. They had major indie acts playing free concerts all week long including Telekinesis, Greenhornes, and Pains of Being Pure at Heart, to veterans like Meat Puppets and J Mascis.




Local garage favorites White Mystery @ the CHIRP Radio/Burger Records day party at the killer punk dive record shop Trailer Space.

Gold Panda closes out the Ioda party at Emo's outdoor tent. His dub-y glitchy tunes in the late afternoon were a needed change of pace from punk rock debauchery that we just came from.

I damned my pseudo-vegetarian ways for a few days and indulged into some BBQ. This was at the infamous Ironworks. The Brisket was delicious!

After catching a few acts on the official Kanine Records showcase, and sets by Olafur Arnalds and Ted Leo at Swan Dive, we found the perfect way to end the evening, Low performing at St. Davids Episcopal Church. Further proving that houses of worship is the only way to hear the delicately austere group from Duluth, MN.

We ate BBQ, saw bands, met with colleagues and managed not to end up hot messes on 6th street. All in all, not a bad first day of SXSW!

TECHNO!!!

For those who are interested, we just had a nice used buy come through our doors with loads of Techno 12's by the likes of Dan Curtin, John Tejada, Ricardo Villalobos, Baby Ford, Monolake, and lots more!!! Come by and take a look...

Post-Minimalist Indie Piano Music Be Damned - BABY DEE receives 8.0 on Pitchfork

The number crunchers of Pitchfork.com do love to tell it like it is! Their words? To describe Baby Dee, and her new LP & CD, produced by Andrew W.K., Regifted Light?

"8.0"

"Idiosyncratic but ruggedly classic, Regifted Light is old-fashioned art music with a sheen of downtown grit."

"The camp pigeonhole is always difficult for transgender artists to avoid in the mainstream. But Dee is simply a musician making very earnest art about a very unusual life. Regifted Light doesn't seem built to shock or cajole, but to connect with all sorts of people, and to last."

(photo by Jim Newbury)

New Releases @ saki 3/22/11!

Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You
Adventure - Lesser Known
Ed Askew - Imperfiction
Baby Dee - Regifted Light
Belong - Common Era
James Blake - S/T CD
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables & Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Gary Higgins - A Dream A While Back
Little Wings - Black Grass
Paperhead - S/T
Residents - Randy's Ghost Stories DVD
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - MGM Singles
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mono Singles 68'- 72'
Strokes - Angles
Wrong Words - S/T

saki/CHIRP Trivia! March 24th at Empty Bottle

Round 3 of the saki/CHIRP trivia night is here! This Thursday (3/24) get ready to play your pants off.

Come to the Empty Bottle, doors are at 6:30, Game One starts at 7, Game Two starts at 8.

It's free to watch and only $2 to play. And just look at the fun you could be having...

Remembering Alex Chilton

I remember, around this time last year, when Sound Opinions did their SXSW roundup. They mentioned the recent passing of Alex Chilton, and the tribute that many artists did at the festival in place of the Big Star performance that was supposed to happen. Despite being a Big Star fan, I had never really delved into Chilton's solo work. I've since righted that wrong, picking up a copy of Like Flies On Sherbert and playing it on repeat for a good two months after... for anyone else who's been missing out on Alex Chilton, Stereogum has a recent post remembering Chilton, and featuring several "hip" artists' Chilton favorites.

If that doesn't do it for you, consider the fact that The Replacements wrote a song about him... I mean, c'mon!

RSD - Live at saki

Alright Folks, we have solidified our line-up of performers for Record Store Day 2011. From 12pm to 8pm on Saturday, April 16th you're invited to peruse and purchase the countless RSD limited edition releases, while enjoying live performance from...

In Tall Buildings - releasing a special RSD 7" on Whistler records - loud loop press tells you more
The 1900s - Parasol records
Chaperone
This Is Cinema - releasing a special RSD 7" on Whistler records
Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man - Plustapes
Rabid Rabbit - Interloper records
Distractions - Twosyllable, Infinite Best, Plustapes

Seven bands, for free, byob, and all ages (if you're not 21+, you're not drinking).

Find out more about RSD at saki on our events page. Don't forget to RSVP on Facebook.

Be there or be...

F'ing KILL ME.

why.

Why.

WHY!?!?!?!?!

The Eternals "Approaching The Energy Field" / Pitchfork 7.6!!

South By Southwest, Schmouth by Schmouthwest. Pitchfork.com gauges the new Addenda Records release "Approaching The Energy Field" by Chicago's own, the Eternals at a 7.6!

Check it:

"Few current indie bands are paying tribute to Sun Ra or King Tubby, blending various strains of Afro-Caribbean rhythm culture & cutting the mix with rock's bite. Of course, the Eternals aren't some post-rock analog to the current wave of lo-fi 90s nostalgia. They come directly out the tradition, & over the course of 4 albums released in the last decade, they've kept its sytlistically promiscuous vibe alive. But in any era, even one crowded with likeminded bands, they would be unique."

OH! and....

"The Eternals may be out on their own in the once again guitar-centric world of indie rock circa 2011, but that just means we're doubly lucky they're still listening so widely, still pushing themselves to come up with such unexpected new hybrids."

That's right.

(the Eternals, deep in the basement)

Tonight At The Bottle

Monday, March 14th 
Ty Segall (Goner, Castleface, Floridas Dying)
Heavy Cream (Infinity Cat)
The Half Rats (Douchemaster)
Slushy
9pm/21+
The Empty Bottle

This should be a pretty rockin' show and the odds are you don't have anything better to do on a Monday night. Don't just take my word for it, see what the Onion's A/V Club had to say

New Releases @ saki 3/15/11!

Darlings - Warma
Dodos - No Color
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now!
Eternal Tapestry - Beyond The 4th Door
Jad Fair - His Name Is Music Itself
Forbidden Friends - Tiny Hands
Matthew Friedberger - Meet Me In The Miramas
Hype Williams - One Nation
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
Mi Ami - Dolphins
Owls - S/T reissue
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs & Landings reissue
Starfucker - Reptilians
Tape - Revelationes

Shinji from Boredoms & DMBQ weigh in on the situation in Japan

(from the reputable dailyswarm.com) Shinji from Boredoms / DMBQ provides updates on the increasingly stressful situation in Japan here ~

From flowers & cream: japan:

Hi everyone,

Its Shinji from DMBQ/Boredoms here. I am writing to my friends who is

living in US and other countries.

As you know, Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began has

struck the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami. Fortunately

I am OK because I am living in Osaka, but now the damage situation is

gradually clarified.

So many our friends, friend's of friend, friend's family, musicians,

people who work in music venue, etc... a lot of people who we know

were struck. And communications are almost 100% down in northeast

japan still. Friends who were staying in northern Japan to have a

show etc,, can not come back to their home and now they are in the

refuge where the acquaintance doesn't exist.

Plus, Tokyo's electricity will be cut off gradually from tomorrow.

Even railway will be 50% running and now gasoline is almost empty in

Tokyo, means Tokyo's economy will be down. The food scarcity has

already started because the factory cannot operate.

Please help them. Volunteer's acceptance has not been begun yet. We

want to send relief and condolence donation directly to people and

north-east Japan's music scene in future. Please send donation or

organize benefits show in your town for them.

Please Cc-ing this email to your artist friends too.

Please send donations via paypal:

dmbq@dmbq.net

Shinji Masuko DMBQ/Boredoms

Everybody. C'mon. This ain't no NPR pledge-drive. It's a humanity pledge-drive. Act now. Act at all.

Matthew Mullane w/ Ryley Walker @ saki on Sunday!

Matthew Mullane plays guitar... but that's putting it lightly. Matthew Mullane emotes with his guitar. Not like some stadium rock god, but with a simplicity & elegance that can hush a room. His work varies across his releases, so we're not sure what we'll get to hear from him, but we know it will be amazing!

He'll be joined by Ryley Walker, who will probably also be playing guitar - but not in a way you've ever heard it before. This should be a good one!

We'll also be offering 15% off all VDSQ titles for tomorrow only! That includes LPs by Matthew Mullane, Chris Brokaw & Thurston Moore! Don't miss it!

Loud Loop Press on In Tall Buildings' RSD 7"

Loud Loup Press gives you a taste of In Tall Buildings upcoming Record Store Day 7" release on Whistler records.

"The A-side is a cover of “Warm Rock” by fellow Chicagoans Cains And Abels and the B-side is what the press release calls a “bedroom-pop” version of “The Way To A Monster’s Lair” from its self-titled debut. [...] Known for his meticulous and maybe, slow recording process, Hall has apparently thrown these two songs together with a quickness that is in line with the vibe of most Record Store Day releases. Fear not, fans, for Hall is also slowly and methodically working on the full length follow up to his self-titled debut."

Don't miss the band performing live at saki on 4/16, along with Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man, Chaperone, This Is Cinema, Rabid Rabbit, and more! It's gonna be a blast, and not just because it's FREE and BYOB.

Plus, we're hosting an Record Store Day after party at The Burlington, one of our favorite neighborhood watering-holes. Guest DJs include friends from the Runnies, Rabble Rabble, Plustapes, Addenda records, CHIRP and more!

Make sure you join our mailing list at sakistore.net and check our RSD page for updates!

Arc in Round cover Can - also PHILLY!

For someone who grew up 20 minutes south of Philadelphia, it's always nice to see a real philly band get some attention. Sure, Kurt Vile is huge, and Reading Rainbow are getting there, but most decent Philly bands just make the move to New York and get lost in the shuffle.

So, here's Arc In Round, a real Philly band playing a really awesome Can cover. I'm not actually going to fact check this, but I'll bet you can catch them some time soon at The Barbary, Kung Fu Necktie, or Johnny Brenda's... probably all three.

Art In The Age Presents: Arc In Round "Oh Yeah" (Can cover) In-store Performance from Art In The Age on Vimeo.

In Tall Buildings: Warm Rock & RSD!

If you've been checking out our Record Store Day page, you already know that one of our favorite locals, In Tall Buildings will be playing at saki on RSD. They will also be releasing a new 7" that day (via Whistler) titled "Warm Rock".

The title track is a cover of their friends, Cains & Abels. You can grab it over at Windy City Rock. The b-side is a reworking of one of In Tall Buildings' standout tracks, "The Way To A Monster's Lair." Here the original at In Tall Buildings' site.

Now start getting ready for Record Store Day! We've got a full day of sales and in-stores planned, with some promotions from other local shops, and a kick-ass after party scheduled at The Burlington with tons of special guests, and FREE PBR's with a saki receipt!

Make sure you join our mailing list at sakistore.net and check our RSD page for updates!

St. Baldrick's Foundation pint night

Tomorrow night 3/10/11 @ Weegee's Lounge 3659 W. Armitage in Chicago:

Fundraiser/pint night for St. Baldrick's Foundation, featuring beers from New Holland Brewing, including Mad Hatter IPA, Full Circle Kolsch, and Dragons Milk Ale. Donate $20 at the door and we'll hand you a pint glass that will be refillable from 7pm to 10pm. I hope to see everyone tomorrow for a fun night of charitable drinking.

Joel / Weegee's Lounge

Awake on the Internet...Asleep On The Floodplain, Six Organs of Admittance receives 7.8 from Pitchfork

Talk about accolades. Pitchfork.com says some things about Ben Chasny & his Six Organs of Admittance's new album Asleep On The Floodplain ~ calling the group one of "America's best-ever psychedelic syndicates....". But I digress. See what else they have to say:

"7.8"

"…Chasny turns in one of his best pop songs to date, too, "Light of the Light," a hummable little hymn to impermanence."

"…Has (Six Organs of Admittance) been folk rock or freak folk (band), free folk or just plain folk? Asleep on the Floodplain triumphantly answers back none of those. Rather, Chasny has distilled all of his impulses and obsessions-- slow drones and brisk picking, solemn mumbles and cheery riffs, ponderous lyrics, and ruminative instrumentals-- into 43 muted, marvelous minutes."

Of course, here at CTD, we've familiarized ourselves with Mr. Chasny's dulcet tones for some time now - from his releases on Drag City to his releases on Strange Attractors Audio House, we like to think of ourselves as "informed" - DC453 Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep On The Floodplain is available on CD and the ever popular (and more life-enriching) LP format right now.

(Photo courtesy of Elisa Ambrogio)

Eccentric Breaks & Beats Vol. 2

Numero's Eccentric Breaks & Beats was pretty well-received and had what I thought was a pretty good back story, and some pretty freaking awful cover art.

Well, now there is an Eccentric Breaks & Beats Vol. 2, complete with artwork that's maybe not as awful, but just as gaudy. You can download Vol. 2 here for the price of one authentic e-mail address.

Official Opening: The Stock Exchange @ saki!

Join us this Friday, March 11th, from 6-9pm, for the official opening of Chris Stock's newest exhibit at saki, The Stock Exchange.


Stock is a Chicago artist who is inspired by the street scenes he encounters in his Uptown neighborhood. His work is surrealistic and satirical, bringing to mind the immediate influence of Quentin Blake or Ralph Steadman.


Come out, meet the artist, and enjoy beverages and hors d'oeuvres provided by saki, as well as a musical performance by the jazzy, acoustic six-piece, Heat Birds! See you there!

Ticket Giveaway: Darling @ The Hideout 3/26!

Our friends in Darling are playing a show at The Hideout on March 26th with Brent Puls & Death Ships! Because we like Darling a lot, and we like The Hideout A LOT, we'll be giving away a pair of tickets for the show to anyone who buys a Darling record from saki!

Sure, the tickets are only $8, but this way you get a ticket AND a record. You can't lose!

New Releases @ saki 3/8/11!

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - House Arrest LP reissue
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Doldrums LP reissue
Disappears - Live at Echo Canyon cassette
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Wye Oak - Civilian
Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock & Funk '70-'78 - V/A
Tape - Revelationes
Dug Dug's - S/T
Grails - Deep Politics
Parts & Labor - Constant Future
Young Widows - Future Heart 7"
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Crass - Feeding of the 5,000 LP reissue
Crass - Penis Envy CD & LP reissue
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - We're New Here
Dalek - Untitled
Action Beat - Beatings
Banjo or Freakout - S/T

Visit our saki store for more info on these releases!

Night-People feature

Night-People feature/interview/unveiling of new & upcoming gems over at Free Form Freakout

Pitchfork weighs in at 7.6 (!!!!) for SMM: Context

That's right!

Pitchfork.com knows it:

"7.6"

"A compiliaton dedicated to "unspooling musical boundaries works at cross - purposes, as it can't help but create a new mold in the process...this is an accurate and often gorgeous snapshot of a loose affiliation of ideas coalescing into a genre."

CTD knows it. Now, you know it. "SMM: Context" - Ghostly International's latest various artist compilation, out now on CD and 2xLP.

12 years from the original launch, EPITONIC.COM IS BACK!

Besides being a good friend, a great bandmate, File-13 Records head honcho and a professor at Columbia in Chicago, Mr. Justin Sinkovich has rebirthed that which was once an awesome, incredible force on the world wide web - EPITONIC.COM, 12 years after the original launch - and it's certain to trump it's once awesomeness with even grander and greater awesomeness.

Check out Justin's interview on NPR on March 7th, 2011.

Salut Epitonic! It's so good to have you back.

(Mr. Sinkovich hard at work)

The Bill Cosby App

You should all "download" this "app" to your "phone" because it's probably "adorable."

What's Inside a Black Hole

Considering there's a super massive one sitting just over there in the center of our galaxy, The Milky Way, maybe you've wondered? I have. Since we would be torn apart by gravity before getting anywhere close to the event horizon, this is likely as close as any of us will ever come to seeing inside.

In celebration of Junk Culture...

In celebration of Junk Culture's in-store at saki today, here are a bunch of videos to give you all a taste of what's in store for us today - no pun intended...

"West Coast"


"That's Not Me"

THAT'S NOT ME-JUNK CULTURE from PAT VAMOS on Vimeo.

OMD's "Junk Culture"

Junk Culture @ saki makes The List

Junk Culture's in-store today is on The List of things you should be doing this weekend!

Dear Chicago Reader,
We Agree.
Love, saki

You & Me

Did you know that one of the central songs in this year's big indie hit (read: any movie with Ryan Gosling), Blue Valentine, is a deep cut from Numero Group's Prix Label compilation!? Have a listen at the Numero blog and buy it at saki!

7.4 "The Woody Nightshade" by Sharron Kraus...from our friends at Pitchfork.com

From the horse's mouth:

"7.4"

"...The Woody Nightshade, Kraus' first for the Portland, Ore., label Strange Attractors, is a mature statement by an artist who has developed steadily since her debut nine years ago."

"...(The Woody Nightshade)should be handled with the same patience and attention with which it seems to have been made. Here, Kraus' tales of love and lose come graced by the wisdom of experience, with youthful impluses tempered by acknowledgement and empathy...."