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Chicagoist is starting to think we're bad luck for business. First Carson's folded, but only the location we frequented. Then CompUSA pulled their plug, not just in Chicago, but half of their locations in the U.S. Now we've discovered that the Virgin Megastore on Michigan — a store we just visited yesterday — is going bye-bye. Seriously, we feel like we need an exorcism here.

Yesterday, Chicagoist took a trip over to the Tower Records downtown, where it’s all over but the shoutin’. If you wanted to own the complete Tony Orlando and Dawn series on 3 DVDs for less than twenty bucks, you were in luck. Other than that, finding recognizable artists in the dregs was a challenge (we managed to pick up recent releases from Cougars and Damone but nothing else held any appeal). It was pretty obvious...

Tower Records will soon be no more. It seemed almost inevitable with the ability to download music that the brick and mortar stores would slowly disappear. This weekend the chain that got us addicted with their deep catalog was auctioned off to the highest bidder. A lowly $134.3 million and she could have been all ours.

If you're a big MySpace fan or peeped the back of the RedEye this morning, you've undoubtedly heard about the free Lupe Fiasco show at Metro tonight. But we've heard some rumors that the show will be cancelled tonight due to Mr. Fiasco being quite under the weather.

Don’t forget: you have until the end of today to sign up to win two tickets to see Editors with Stellastarr* at Metro this Sunday. Click here for the details and the entry form. Winners will be notified tomorrow so you’ll have plenty of time to pick up tickets if you don’t win. Tix are $15 and it’s an 18 and over show.

We always enjoy an in-store performance by a band. We’re always impressed by an in-store performance by a band in a store other than a record store. We’re actively salivating at the announcement of an in-store performance by Queens Of The Stone Age at the soon-to-be-vacated Belmont Army Surplus store tonight.

Chicagoist knows that singer/songwriter Kat Parsons has been kicking around Chicago for the last five years or so but we’re just getting to know her now.

If you’re unable to find your local music geek today, try checking their bedroom.  They’ll likely be there with a monster set of headphones and listening to an album that is spoken of in the most reverential tones this side of your local monastery: Brian Wilson’s Smile.  The former Beach Boy’s “lost masterwork” goes on sale today for the first time since it was conceived of more than 37 years ago. 

Chicagoist hopes one day that musical artists will not be lumped together solely because they all have the same genitalia.  But until such time, it’s time to trot out the time-honored “women in rock” post.  Actually, these women have more in common than just the double X chromosomes: they both helped to create the (admittedly wide-ranging) sound of 90s alternative rock that still reverberates through today’s top 40.