TAG: Chicago

Nov15

Resident Advisors :: America’s Best Local DJs (Week 3)

Last week, we decided to take a few minutes and spotlight some of our favorite local resident DJs from around the country. And the response from the DJ community and URB readers was so overwhelming that we decided to make it a new weekly feature. So keep leaving your suggestions for face local DJ in the comment section (please include links, residencies, styles) and we’ll keep checking them out and profile the jocks we like the best.

Here’s the new DJs for this week…


Got a favorite local DJ? Tell us in the comments section and maybe we’ll add them to the list. …MORE

Nov11

The Cool Kids – “Big Talk” (MP3)

We’re going on almost three years time since The Cool Kids graced the cover of URB magazine, and there’s still no proper full-length on the horizon. While this has to be some sort of frustrating record set by Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks, we can’t stay mad when they periodically drop a track like “Big Talk.” Three listens in and we still can’t figure out what the heck that buzzing sample is supposed to be. If “Big Talk” becomes a hit, will the ‘ketamine hornet’ sound become all the rage in hip-hop?




The Cool Kids – Big Talk by Hypetrak

Nov10

Huoratron Contest!

Sometimes I binge on on Kpop and then I feel way too sugary, too effervescent  – and then all I feel like doing is that move they do in moshpits where the person is both kicking and punching the air, sometimes an innocent bystander — sometimes a wall. Well if you, like me, feel like any of the above you should send over your e-mail address, phone number and name to tonamiepr@gmail.com for your chance to win a pair of tickets to catch Huoratron at Evil Olive Chicago, IL; on Thursday Novemeber 11, 2010. Contest closes tonight, you can catch Huoratron on tour now — check out the tour dates after the jump. *open only to 21+

[audio:http://www.urb.com/files/2010/11/Huoratron-Corporate-Occult-Deathface-Remix.mp3|titles=Huoratron - Corporate Occult (Deathface Remix)] …MORE

Nov03

Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival 2010 Contest!

Can you believe it’s November already? Time sure flies when you’re crazy, I tell ya what.

This whole month we’ll be giving away 5 pairs of 3-day passes to the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival happening in Chicago, in December (yes, December. Yes, the year is over). Just shoot an e-mail over to tonamiepr@gmail.com (include your name, phone number and e-mail address) and in return you might be enjoying a weekend gyrating to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Cory Chisel, Skalites, Van Ghost, etc.

* Winners will be notified by November 23′rd.