Now I realize that it wasn't really a throwdown when Chris from Gorilla Vs. Bear said he thought Austin has the best music scene in the country, but I just couldn't resist the challenge. There are a ton of great bands coming out of Austin right now, but what about Chicago?
Chicago has such a great and vibrant music scene that easily ranks up there with anyone else's. So I present you with 'Can You See The Sunset's Chicago Mixtape' featuring twenty songs by some of my favorite Chicago bands, but there are so many more. In reality this is only the tip of Chicago's massive musical iceberg.
Can You See The Sunset's
MP3 | Owen - Bad News
MP3 | Bound Stems - Risking Life And Limb For The Coupon
MP3 | The Like Young - For Money Or Love
MP3 | Catfish Haven - Crazy For Leaving
MP3 | The Watchers - Badge Said Go
MP3 | The Reputation - Face It
MP3 | Dialogue - Stop On A Dime
MP3 | The Changes - When I Wake
MP3 | May Or May Not - Bike
MP3 | The Lawrence Arms - The Devil's Takin' Names
MP3 | Cracklin Moth - Special
MP3 | The Ponys - Glass Conversation
MP3 | Big Buildings - Saskatchewan
MP3 | Public Four - Not My War
MP3 | Chin Up Chin Up - Water Planes In Snow
MP3 | The Modern Temper - Has Anyone Left The Same?
MP3 | City On Film - Pony's Last Trick (Notebook Remix)
MP3 |
MP3 | Make Believe - Pat Tillman, Emmitt Till
MP3 | Devin Davis - Iron Woman
Bonus:
MP3 |
First Austin and now Chicago. Tomorrow the world! I'd actually be quite interested to hear "mixtapes" featuring the artists of other cities with great local scenes. Anyone else up for the challenege?
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Give me a week or two, and I'll get a mixtape from my hometown -- Liverpool.
We'll throw down, transatlantic style.
Although this is a sick piece of mixtapery. Kudos.
t.birds are now are from chicago???? i thought detroit or seattle
minor minor rant: TAN! is from ferndale, MI (which is technically detroit)
but i love this mix. good shit. and i think i will be doing a michigan mixtape because obviously, michigan has THE BEST music scene ever. (it's not just in lansing. it's not just in detroit. it's EVERYWHERE!)
I started this monthly mix CD group about a year ago. For Volume Four the theme was "Local Bands". What follows is my list, bands from in and around D.C., mostly on the Northern Virginia side:
1. Walk to Work - Virginia Coalition
2. Setzer - A Month Of Sundays
3. Catalog Bohemian - Pietasters
4. Get Up - Self-Titled
5. Off Key Chior - Emmet Swimming
6. Counting Down The Hours - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
7. Deserve - Rubin Kinkaid
8. Hooch - Everything
9. These Things - Bicycle Thieves
10. The Boxer - Carbon Leaf
11. Waiting Room - Fugazi
12. Soul Parking - Graverobbers
13. Seether - Veruca Salt
14. Die Another Day - Viki Nova
15. Who You Wit' - Nick Fury
16. Long Distance Dedication - Metropolitan
17. Son's Gonna Rise - Citizen Cope
18. Band Shocking - Exit Clov
19. Help Me Sleep - Mike Holden
20. Kick It - Hello Tokyo
21. Collide - Old School
22. Blue & Lonesome - Dead Men's Hollow
You could probably do better, but it's a start.
i look forward to hearing these all -- - a few, Chaven, reputation, i've heard -- but i'd add Magnolia Electric Co.... though they move back and forth btween Bloomington and Chi, i think they're finally in CHI for the long haul.
looking forward more to being back in chiago for a wedding next weekend... only bummed there isn't a show i really want to see while there
keep up the great work,
mark
Seattles Mixtape:
1- The Divorce: Houses In Hurricanes
2- Death Cab For Cutie: I Was A Kaleidoscope
3- Minus The Bear: Pachuca Sunrise
4- I Might Need You To Kill: The Thermals
5- Little Hand of the City: The Offering
6- Rocky Votolato: Suicide Medicine
7- The Long Winters: Pushover
8- Dolour: Menage A Trois
9- Vendetta Red: Ambulance Chaser
10- Tullycraft: Polaroids From Mars
11- Aqueduct: Hardcore Days and Softcore Nights
12- Sirens Sister: Hold On
13- Pedro The Lion: Promise
14- The Pale Pacific: Space To Move
15- Some By Sea: Paale Wonder With Dark Eyes
Mmmmmm, tastes like gold.
_Danniel
mark!
bound stems record release show is friday night at schubas, and life and times play saturday, I think.
get to it!
that's a fantastic mix. no love for riviera though? you certainly have central california beat, but i just may have to put together a little local mix myself just for fun.
I'm gonna need some Office on your Chicago tape
hey chicago!
what about THE SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR... ?
http://musikoon.blogspot.com/2006/05/windy-city.html
greetings from serbia!
To your Chicago list, you can also add...
The M's, Assassins, Bon Mots, Eve Destruction, M.O.T.O., Tyrades, Baseball Furies, Cococoma, Hot Machines, The Interiors, Moxie Motive, The 1900's, Baby Teeth, The Safes, Sybris, The Record Low, Camaro Rouge, Headache City, Justin Sconza (of Walter Meego), Alexander Sands, Pit Er Pat, Miss Alex White, Bang! Bang!, Ladies & Gentlemen, The Dirty Things, Chin Up Chin Up, Canasta, Siderunners, New Black, 90 Day Men, The Redwalls, Detholz!, The Dials, Functional Blackouts, Office, Submarine Races, etc.
There is no doubt that Chicago has the most fruitful and diverse rock and roll scene in the world in the last three years. It simply buries everyone else. Austin, I would say, is second, and then probably NY.
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