The Cool Kids have been performing this live @ Rock the Bells this year and have came up huge in the year of 2008. Here is most likely a “left over” from The Bake Sale. Listen BELOW.

The Cool Kids - Pennies

St. Alfred, easily the illest street apparel brand and sneaker boutique out there. Here is the Spring/Summer ‘08 Collection by Chicago’s finest. With their in-store label they present a strong array of t-shirts this season, mostly playing around with the store name. The collection will be released tomorrow, May 24th, at both St. Alfred in Chicago and at Kicks/Hi locations in Hawaii. Get some!

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Source: High Snobiety

ATTENTION ALL YINZERS & FANS OF GOOD MUSIC:

Everyone knows about the major music festivals this summer. There’s Coachella in California, Bonnaroo in Tennessee and Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Now there’s the New American Music Union Festival in Pittsburgh and Bob Dylan is headlining it!

Yes Yinzers, finally you have something to look forward to other than indulging in monotonous belligerent weekends at the Strip, SathSide, Oakland, and Station Square. So sack up, get your kegs of Yuengling because this party is raging right in the heart of the SouthSide.

The festival will take place Aug. 8th and 9th at the SouthSide Works, and the lineup is killer: Bob Dylan Headlines, with The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, The Roots, Spoon and The Black Keys also on the bill. Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers will serve as host.

If nothing else, tickets are affordable: The general-admission two-day tickets are $49.50; student tickets are $25.

The concert will be held between Hot Metal and 26th streets in the town square area near the Cheesecake Factory. Two stages will be set up in the area.

Kiedis, who curated the festival lineup, said in a prepared statement he wanted to create a concert he would want to see.

“The thrill of seeing Bob Dylan next to the Raconteurs next to Gnarls Barkley next to the Roots is reason for us all to celebrate,” Kiedis said. “Music is still the most inspiring creative force that I know of, and this seemed like a prime opportunity to let it shine. Add to this the fact of a generously low ticket price and that it all takes place in the streets of Pittsburgh, and we have the most rocking block party of the summer.”

While the big-name acts are the draw — other bands on the bill include Black Mountain, The Duke Spirit, NASA and Tiny Masters of Today — the festival also is reaching out to budding collegiate musicians. Fifteen bands, including Nothing Unexpected from Robert Morris University, have been invited to participate in a competition, with the winner receiving $10,000 worth of studio time in Los Angeles and promotional considerations from American Eagle.

“The goal of the festival is to celebrate college music by giving college bands a national platform and the opportunity to share the stage with the artists that inspire them,” Barney says.

The New American Music Union Festival is unique. It will take place only in Pittsburgh. Barney says American Eagle hopes fans from around the country will be prompted to come to Western Pennsylvania for the two-day event.

Already, it has provided a surge of interest in local music circles.

“It’s exciting for Pittsburgh,” says Melissa Franko, marketing director for WYEP-FM. “I think it’s going to bring some national recognition to the city.”

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today at Ticketmaster outlets. To charge by phone: 866-448-7849. Online: www.ticketmaster.com or www.livenation.com.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Bake Sale EP - In Stores May 20th!

The Cool Kids - Miami Beach

There must be something to this acting thing for Common. Ever since the Chicago rapper started devoting more time to Tinseltown, he also suddenly shifted to frenetic work pace with his music. Com is set to deliver yet another album this summer, titled Invincible Summer, according to Billboard. The album comes on the heals of his last project, Finding Forever, which spawned the Grammy-nominated collaboration “Southside” featuring Kanye West. Invincible Summer, however, won’t feature production from West, who had become a musical muse to Common. The two Windy City residents reunited on Com’s BE and Finding Forever. Common gave ‘Ye credit for inspiring him again, but on the new album he decided to go a different route. Mainly because West was busy on his Glow in the Dark tour, Common said he couldn’t get much studio time with the producer. So he instead hooked up with the Neptunes and one-time OutKast contributor Mr. DJ. The result is a more electro-tinged sound, reports Billboard. Cee-Lo, Chester French, and Santogold are expected to appear on Invincible Summer. The album is tentatively due in July.

Today we pause to take a look back at the masterful photography of a lesser known Chicago resident, Wayne Miller and his epic series of images chronicling the Midwestern metropolis in the late 1940s. A vaunted Magnum photographer, Miller captured some of the most gripping images of life on the city’s gritty South Side—the home of northern blues and the 100 hour workday.

The Cool Kids have announced via their new website that their debut EP, The Bake Sale, is officially out May 20th on Chocolate Industries. Chuck + Mikey also have a new mix-tape done and ready to drop any day now.