Hey kids, look! It's YET ANOTHER scuzzy, grungy, good times rock outfit out of Brooklyn, NY! While the preceding statement is 100% true, if you took it at face value and wrote Cheeseburger off as just another bunch of hipster wannabe trendsetters, you'd be missing one hell of a party. Sure, Cheeseburger plays the big dumb rock archetype to the hilt. The lead singer flails all over the stage and seems to relishes flinging streams......

This month's VICE party at Hideout is going to be PACKED! Matt & Kim are the headliners, and we're beginning to think they might be more popular with the dance-rock kids in our fair city than anywhere else. They certainly get shown enough love for their simple keyboard and drum driven tunes whenever they play here. Perhaps it's because their songs are driven by a certain jubilant innocence that is currently so in vogue in......

We finally saw the Heavy Metal in Baghdad documentary last night and walked away rather stunned. It follows the one and only metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda, from just after Saddam's defeat through 2006 when they are seeking refugee status in Syria. (Currently the band is in Turkey.) In the beginning we see a band that is hopeful yet apolitical, and that plays its music for the sheer joy of doing so. The single......

Yesterday's consumption went something like this: 8:55 a.m.: large coffee; 12:30 p.m. Diet Coke; 3:30 p.m., one piece of dark chocolate; 5:30 p.m., large soy chai; 7 p.m., two Diet Cokes. And that was a light day. If our sad addiction is any indication of the habits of the city at large, we're not surprised that Chicago ranked highest in the nation in caffeine consumption. Although Seattle drank the most coffee, Chicago ranked tops overall,......