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Buddyhead is primarily known for their gossip, penchant for releasing the cell phone numbers of Top 40 alt-rockers and mall-punks, and general railing against all bands that they think generally suck. This includes just about everyone. In the midst of all this, Buddyhead still manages to run a label and sign the occasional band that escapes their hate and ire. As one would expect, it’s a pretty small roster.

Word’s starting to get around about Chicagoist’s Ctrl – Alt – Rock show. We even got picked up by a Todd Rundgren news blog. And why not? We’ve got a great bill together with The Assembly, May Or May Not and Alphabet. We’ve also got more giveaways to announce. The lovely people at addVice have dropped a quasi-Valentine’s Day package of CDs on us including Annie’s "Heartbeat" remix single, Death From Above’s Romance Bloody Romance...

It’s no secret that dancey rock and/or roll is all the rage with the kids these days. It’s also no secret that the bands practicing this style of music are dealing with critical assaults of the knee-jerk variety. For example, the more loved a band is by the proletariat the more loathed it is by the critical establishment. View the disdain hurled upon groups like The Killers and stellastarr* and the accolades showered upon Bloc...

Remix albums are often a very bad idea riding the back of the easy cash-in cow. There have been exceptions, as with Massive Attack’s Mad Professor mauled No Protection or even The Space Monkeyz Vs. Gorrilaz collab Laika Come Home, but usually they just end up more like P-Diddly-doo’s We Invented the Remix. Recently Vice Records gave us a re-tooling of this year’s Bloc Party debut in remix form and that arguably could be filed...

Here’s your dilemma: you never got around to getting your hands on Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm album before the track-by-track remix version was released last month. Money’s tight so you’re not sure which one to pick up. Fear not, gentle reader, for Chicagoist wants to give them both to you. That’s right, we’re giving away three Bloc Party prize packs including the original Silent Alarm CD and the Silent Alarm Remixed CD featuring Four Tet,...