Brit-poppers Blur have been pretty coy with the press on their status vis a vis “are they a band still or not” lately, but one concrete bit of info has them releasing a potentially massive new DVD set this year.

Earlier this week Fishbone announced some new dates for early 2013.

Earlier this year Public Enemy released two new LPs, one last month even, and it contains some pretty cool guest spots.

This year’s Riot Fest Chicago t-shirt sold faster than the proverbial hot cakes, so much so that we ran out on the very first day! We’ve been getting a lot of emails and messages about these shirts from those who missed out so we’ve decided to do another run!

Chicago psych-punks The Treasure Fleet recently announced plans for their second record release show of the year.

Toronto rockers Metz have joined the ranks of the Daytrotter.

Energy recently released a new music video for their digital single “Another Yesterday.”