Do you like good Chicago house music?

by Gregory McClendon

Well who the hell don’t?

SpatulaCity Records, a Chicago based house label, impresses with a nice clean blog, big Helvetica, and a little flash “radio”. Sure it’s just another flash-based streamer, but it loaded quick, looks great, and in the case of SpatulaCity, was playing some dope booty-shaking house. I especially dug The Sound Republic tunes. I think a trip to Gramaphone is in my near future. It has been way too long since I purchased some vinyl.

Parsing Dropular RSS Feeds in Wordpress

by Gregory McClendon

When looking at parsing the Dropular feed, all I really needed to do was sort out some php to parse the feed’s XML, then resize the images to fit the design (in our case this was a vertical column, 150px in width). Wordpress conveniently comes with a handy enough parser for the job.

What Happened to Chicago Music?

by Jason Caldeira

This past weekend I attended a show of a really great Chicago band (who shall remain nameless). And for whatever reason, even though I’ve known this for a while, it really hit me: the Chicago music scene is dead.