My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8)
- Deerhunter (53)
- The Hood Internet (50)
- Broken Social Scene (46)
- Queens of the Stone Age (29)
- Menomena (27)
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Née — “Magic Love”
I caught Née at the Tap Room last night (opening for my friends in Union Tree Review), and besides being completely adorable, she also makes some super-catchy electropop.
Free downloads here
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1)
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Menomena — “TAOS”
This song kills.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25)
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Hopefully the new STL-CHI high-speed rail will run through Momence.
For Anyone Knocking the Loop Streetcar Cash
Most other U.S. cities that have built streetcars or other rail transit have seen increasingly valuable development. A Portland, Ore., streetcar open since 2001 lured 4 million square feet of high-density development, a 2005 study found. A Seattle analysis of land values near its new streetcar, opened in 2007, found $68.4 million in increased property value.
Now we to bring it to streets that really need it (hint: Cherokee).
