Local gossip columnist Jessica Hopper and her budding lawyer baby daddy Matt Clark welcomed a son on Tuesday, July 20, so Hopper has temporarily turned over her Gossip Wolf duties to staff writer Miles Raymer. Hopper was experiencing the pangs of false labor the prior Saturday afternoon at Pitchfork; numerous tipsters have told Gossip Wolf that the only people laboring harder with less to show for it at the fest were Panda Bear and Michael Showalter.
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Rock Island-based Daytrotter is coming to Chicago next week, looking to do a special series of live-in-studio sessions with local bands. People with space suitable for a daylong recording session and bands interested in taking part are encouraged to get in touch through Daytrotter.com.
Chicago art-metal trio Russian Circles is touring the U.S. in support of the much adored Japanese psych-doom band Boris. They’ll play Metro August 13.
