As a warm-up for her early-2011 album for Rhymesayers, south-side MC Psalm One is releasing a new ten-song EP produced by MP, Earmint, Fluffy, and her bad self. Nine tracks from Woman at Work Vol. 1 will be free to download from psalmone.tv on May 1; a tenth, the single “Better Than My Last,” is already streaming free and downloadable for $1. Speaking to Gossip Wolf, Psalm said she’s completed tracks for the just-released DJ Jay Illa mixtape Return of the Backpacks 2. She also has a cameo on the recent Canibus album Melatonin Magik.
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Though their debut long player for Kranky, Lux, drops next week, guitar slingers Disappears are already heading back into the studio, recording at Clava with drummer/engineer Graeme Gibson for an EP to be released in the fall.
WTTW pledge-drive mainstays Celtic Woman will be at Rosemont Theatre April 9-10. Tickets are $50 and $75, though you can sit in a Dumpster licking a Billy Joel cassette all day for free.
Bazillion Points, the publishing house run by metal scribe Ian Christe, is preparing to release the 576-page coffee-table book Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Fanzine 1979-1983 on June 30. The book collects the complete run of the legendary fanzine that became the legendary record label that helped define midwestern punk. It features artwork by Pushead and a veritable armada of introductory essays by founders Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, editor Steve Miller, Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, Peter Davis, Henry Owings, Byron Coley, Corey Rusk, John Brannon, Ian MacKaye, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jan Terri, the tamale guy (blue cooler), Skyler Jett, Robert Gibbs, the original lineup of Breadwinner, Steve Kroner, Conrad Bain, Fluss, original Styx drummer John Panozzo, and the reanimated corpse of Family Feud host Richard Dawson.
