NEWS OF THE WEEK

• Catfish Haven talks about the love and pain of their debut album Tell Me on Chicago Public Radio's Eight-Forty-Eight morning program (91.5FM WBEZ) and reveals the background story of the band via Chicago Reader

• Local online t-shirt company/designer community Threadless hits the big time as reported by Chicago Tribune and on CNN

• Pitchfork interviews The Thermals and discusses the highly regarded (read: 8.5 rating) new album The Body, The Blood, The Machine

• New York's French Kicks receives Critic's Choice from Chicago Reader and a stamp of approval for their vocalist-drummer from Jim DeRogatis of Chicago Sun-Times

• Something Glorious gives glorious review to The Gossip's show last week at Metro

• Metro's blog is not the only new kid on the block...say hello to Crickets, the Chicago Reader blog