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I sat down two weekends ago at Gravity Studios to chat about Lollapalooza plans, the Chicago music community and the day-to-day of maintaining a site like Cream Team for the CVU podcast. My discussion partners for the evening were nightlife photographer Tyler Curtis and host Jaime Black. We all had a lot to say and [...]

Jams Dean sat down with Chicago’s BBU, giving the trio a blank slate to discuss their concept, their music and their agenda. We didn’t need a lot of questions. True to their activist backgrounds and charged lyrics, BBU had a lot to say. —Ed.
CT: What is BBU?
EPIC: Bin Laden Blowin’ Up. We are products of [...]

Last weekend I participated in my first ever recorded interview, discussing CreamTeam, blogging and Chicago music alongside Nick from Red Threat. We chatted with Jaime Black of Q101’s Local 101 for his personal podcast, ChicagoVerseUniteD, as part of a series on the people working in the shadows of the limelight in the city’s music scene. [...]

A good interview is more than an entertaining read. A good interview holds the power to pique a reader’s interest to a subject they would normally write off. Pop-Rock meets Hip-Hop MTV darlings Chester French are not a group I would seek out on my own. Our very own newbornrodeo recently interviewed the duo for [...]

Chicago is a city that boasts a bevy of competing and complementary music scenes. In the past couple years a fresh, new generation has taken hold of Chicago’s rich hip-hop history and put their own spin on it, forging a scene that long ago bypassed the city’s limits and got a nation to take note. [...]

Muscles, the Australian electronic producer with a permanent chip on his shoulder, has officially gone off his goddamn rocker.
If you follow music news at all you already know about Muscles’ dramatic December in which he declared a one-man war on his label, Modular Records and followed it up with rants on his blog and twitter [...]

Go friend Passion Pit on myspace (but you probably already have) and check them out at one of their shows throughout January and February.
Passion Pit – I’ve Got Your Number (192 kbps)

(photo via Sucka Pants)
After a few failed attempts, Matt of Matt & Kim finally found a time in his relentless schedule to talk on the phone with us about the insanity of the modern day indie rock tour, the future of Matt & Kim, and why he hates rock stars that love rock stardom.

CreamTeam: Matt, [...]