Simeon Viltz and Race (aka The Primeridan) have dropped their new mixtape Da Crack-A-Dawn. The tape features some of Chicago’s finest including the veteran Pugs Atomz. You can download the mixtape for free here.

The cover of the new ep, The Dusty Wolf, really says it all. This music is a series of unicorns riding rainbows out the mouth of a werewolf. Seriously, Rememberwhens blend intricate guitar play when solid garage sounds, and surprising vocal harmonies and interplay. The band has been together for four years, and this, their debut ep, is solid effort. My favorite track is "Dope Kicks". You can stream the album here.

Well, I’ve posted quite a bit about the new Company of Thieves album, and finally today is the day it officially is released. If you can’t waiting for you copy to arrive in the mail or the iTunes download is taking too long you can stream the album over at Spinner while you wait.

Roll Call Records will be rereleasing the debut album from Scattered Trees, Sympathy, on August 8th. The band just released a new remix of their track "Four Days Straight" reworked by The Album Leaf. The band will be heading out on a national tour from now to early June. Why don’t you also go like them on Facebook and be a part of their 6,300 fans.

The latest video from Giant System features the indie-pop sounds of Pet Lions. The band just released their debut full-length album, Houses.

Serengeti’s solo debut Family and Friends is due out on July 19th from Anticon. The album finds Serengeti moving away from the style and sound he created with Polyphonic and now working closely with musicians like Yoni Wolf of Why?, Owen Ashworth (Advanced Base, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone), and Otouto as in the track below "Ha-Ha".

Their Ocean is a new indie soul group from Chicago consisting of Keith Kreuser aka K-Kruz and Jason Hunt. Jason and Keith met in marching band in 1991 at Evanston Township High School. Keith had a Living Colour tee shirt on and an alto saxaphone strapped around his skinny neck, Jason an INXS or They Might Be Giants shirt, therefore Keith will forever be cooler. They formed a bond musically and have written approximately 1 million songs, now they intend to share as many as possible with you.

The Hit Back’s session for Couch House Sounds was released today, and you can check it out here. The duo also did a great interview with CHIRP.

The band will be performing a live in-store at Saki (3716 W. Fullerton Ave) tomorrow at Saki with Fall Fox at 4pm.

Well it didn’t take long for Owen Ashworth (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) to get back into the game. His new project is called Advance Base, and from the sounds of his first released track "Whirlaway The Horse" the sound is not drastically different. The song is courtesy the Chicago Mixtape Vol 13, and if you have not subscribed to that yet you need to today.

Advance Base will be performing at Schubas on May 18th with California’s The Donkeys and Algerbro.

The latest videos on Small Chicago come form The Heavy Bombers. They are such a solid live band and it shows in the three video posted over at Small Chicago. Punks not dead!

Our big Deli show is tomorrow night at Empty Bottle with Secret Colours, Dastardly, Soft Speaker, and Canasta. Matt Priest of Canasta was kind enough to answer a few of our questions and he promoted the show and prepared to rock the Empty Bottle. You can read our interview here and order your tickets for the show here.