We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Chicagoist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Rothbury Music Festival, where you can see acts like the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Snoop Dogg, and many, many more. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Chicagoist or any other site in our network, check out our......

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Chicagoist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." Rothbury Music Festival, where you can see acts like the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Snoop Dogg, and many, many more. Missy Higgins, with an album that is available now. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Chicagoist or......

Earlier this week, accompanied by armed guards, and carefully escorted onto American soil, the first shipment of iPhones began to arrive. The creator of the ubiqitous iPod, has the PR buzz (or Reality Distortion Field) in full effect, and we can't remember so many people ever caring so much about a cell phone. No one really got excited about the new Blackberry (even if they are promoted by John Mayer), and when an updated TREO......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

Yawn. That’s our initial response to the free music at the Taste of Chicago this year. We know not every concert should cater to us alone, but should we suffer because of the need to cater to the balding, khaki-wearer’s bland taste in music? Thanks, XRT, for taking this to a new level of disinterest. Who’s having the BBQ? That’s where we’ll be instead of Grant Park. The Taste of Chicago has released the Fourth......

Eric Clapton is sponsoring a Crossroads Guitar Festival on July 28 in Chicago. Scheduled to perform are BB King, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Jeff Beck and John Mayer. Proceeds will go to the Crossroads Center, a drug-rehabilitation facility that Clapton founded. Now's the time to buy up any Chief Illiniwek gear you may want. After June 15, manufacturers will stop producing items featuring the retired mascot. That high-rise fire last week was......

It’s been a harsh week, hasn’t it? First, we had to walk through a blizzard, prove our love on Valentine’s Day and then it got cold again. The rest of the week they piled work on us here at the office, and now we have to decide what tickets to buy for upcoming shows. Life is just hard sometimes. Too bad the John Legend and Corinne Bailey Rae show didn’t go on sale earlier; it......

We're always looking for ways to max out that credit card. This week it seems that this plan may be a little more difficult than usual. We've picked a few events that go on sale Saturday that will help ease the obesity of our pocketbooks. We skipped the John Mayer set at ACL, but heard of all the Lance/Jake/Matthew sightings over the entire weekend. We don't think the power trio will be at John's shows......

Ratings books are out for Chicago radio stations, but there are few surprises for those who’ve been paying attention. The usual suspects are still on top: WGN, WBBM and WGCI. Feder and Rosenthal have the full breakdown. The two big radio stories of the summer had more to do with who was off the air than on it. Q101 booted Mancow early in the summer (though he’s still syndicated around the country), and WCKG gave......

Last night Chicagoist took a break from our rock-n-roll lifestyle and turned on the television, mainly to watch Ultimate Fighting ‘cuz we have a slight case of the bloodlust, but came across a channel that we had never seen before on Comcast, Channel 197 (at least at our abode) – The Tube Music Network. Now, a new music network just had to be checked out. Watching for about an hour, we noticed no ads –......

Chicagoist has long held that it’s important to separate the artist from the art; some of the best musicians make lousy human beings (Chuck Berry, take a bow!). But lately, we keep stumbling upon two artists who seem like lovely people you could bring home to Mom. Chicago’s own Aware Records seems to be cornering the market on what we’re calling the Nice Young Man movement, with a roster including Kyle Riabko, John Mayer, Five......

It’s become de rigeur (French for “something that hipsters do right before they mock everybody else for doing it”) to hook your iPod up during parties so you can impress/test-the-loyalty-of your friends with playlists like “Guaranteed Ass Shakers” or “Emo Songs That Are Totally Not Emo But Will Make That Girl Who Works At Pontiac Cafe Fall In Love With Me Nonetheless.” If this sounds like you then perhaps you’re ready to foist your talents......

The Teitur (pronounced tigh-tur) concert at Schuba’s tonight is sold out. This is a shame for you but good for Teitur as it means his blend of James Taylor-esque guitar, Paul Simon-like lyrics and Harry Nilsson wistfulness can’t be far away from reaching critical mass. Though his male singer-songwriter contemporaries are John Mayer and Ben Harper, the Danish Teitur (nee Teitur Lassen) has more in common with old-schoolers Donovan or Cat Stevens. Chicagoist first became......