Love of Everything’s (aka Bobby Burg) Daytrotter session has been posted. Two of the songs he performed appear on his recent release Best In Tensions (Polyvinyl). He is currently touring Europe opening for Joan of Arc.

On November 12th the duo known as Calm Palm Vapor released their debut album Morning Pacific. These ten tracks are a mixture of keyboards, atmospherics, and gentle pop vocals. Recorded over the course of a year, the album is simple but infectiously fun. The duo celebrated the release with a raucous show at Subterranean. Since forming in January 2010 the duo of Pierogi (melodies) and Secretwars (beats) have established a decent catalog that also includes an ep released back in September. You can stream the album on the band’s bandcamp page or purchase it digitally for just $5.

Distractions are back with a new 7" single that will be released by twosyllable records on December 7th. This is the bands first release on their new label, and comes in advance of the release of their new LP Dark Green Sea on January 18th on Infinite Best. The single will contain two tracks "We Were Better Off In The Rain" and "I Need A Reason".

Distractions will be performing at The Empty Bottle on November 27th with Bird Names, Nude Sunrise, and Wumme.

I don’t know if the Chicago music scene would be the same with out Jerry Bryant and JBTV. I found this new documentary while searching around youtube. You can really tell that it is and has been a "Labor of Love"

Arcade Sound Ltd. is home to inventive bands like Blackbird Blackbird, Memoryhouse and Teen Daze, and next month they will be releasing the debut album from Rainbo Video. The album will be called Shadow Relics and will include five new tracks including the beautifully funky "Crystal Glaciers".

Thrill Jockey announced last week that Chicago native Matthew Friedberger (Fiery Furnaces) will be releasing a series of solo album through out 2011. The series will be called Solos and begin in January. There will be six album and they will be released every two months in a limited quantity of 700. Each album will be released on vinyl only and will be packaged in fully artworked jackets. The last album will be delivered to subscribers with an exclusive bonus of two exclusive full-length albums, featuring Matt and special guests on each. Subscribers will also get an LP box – old-style "Tip On" with a hand mounted photo – in which to keep the Solos LPs. Thrill Jockey also sent around the first track from the series "Shirley".

The track "Ghostsong" from Daniel Knox has been around for awhile, but the Chris Hefner directed video recently surfaced on vimeo. The track is also available as a single on iTunes.

It’s been a while since we have heard from our friends in Kid, You’ll Move Mountians. This week the band’s lead singer Jim Hanke joined the entertaining boys over at Sock Monkey Sound to discuss the band and a lot of other things. The show also debuted a new song from KYMM called "Ten Million Strong (And Growing)".

Kidd, You’ll Move Mountains will be performing at The House Cafe (DeKalb, IL) on Nov. 13th with Maritime.

We announced a couple weeks ago that I Fight Dragon’s had been working on a new ep and now have a few more details and the title tracks. The ep will be called Welcome To The Breakdown, and the band will be celebrating the release on November 27th at The Metro. Included in the show will be new live visuals done by NO CARRIER, an amazing 8-bit video artist who programs his visuals using the NES. The band will also have limited editions of a special floppy disc package of the ep available at the show.

You can preorder tickets for the November 27th show at The Metro with Hollus and Nick Miller & The Neighbors here.

Sam McAllister is an ambitious young musician and business owner. As the founder of Tandem Shop he has released four albums over the last two years including albums by Mr. Bear and Honest Engines. The label releases are thoughtful and well-produced, and his latest release just happens to be his own. When he partners musically with his high school friend Megan Frestedt the duo Project Film emerges. The duos debut album called Chicago finds the duo presenting an exercise in indie pop. At times the sound is soft and sweet ("Sun"), and at others bouncy and fun ("Cut Outs"). The album was recorded in McAllisters studio apart in the Fall and Winter of 2009, and documents the two worlds that they have existed in. The album contrasts growing up in Minneapolis and relocating to Chicago. Chicago is a beautifully simple and charming duo for a musician and producer that plans to do big things here in Chicago.

Project Film released Chicago on November 9th.

If winning the most recent poll did not temp you enough to check out the uniquely tropical sounds of Esta Vivo than hopefully this post will. This primarily a project by Ryan McMahon (formerly of Bearries), and as Está Vivo he constructs dense sounds that reminds me a little of Os Mutantes at times. This is especially true in the track "Natural Blossom" below.

Está Vivo’s debut LP, Together We Step, is due out later this year.

Ok Go has done it again. The band’s latest video is for the track "Last Leaf" which appears on their recent release Of The Blue Colour of The Sky. The band recently release an "Extra Nice" edition of the album which comes complete with an entire second disc of bonus material, as well as a download card for 12 OK Go remixes.