The Funs and Earring split a new cassette, Chicago Singles Club commits its first year to vinyl, and more.
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
We here at Gossip Wolf are on the record as total stans for local slop-pop duo the Funs, and Reader staffer Luca Cimarusti declared Chicago shoegazey two-piece Earring one of the city's most irresistible young bands of 2013—so it seems pretty dang convenient that they're dropping a split cassette together this week via Manic Static, the label run by the Funs' male half, Philip Lesicko. The A side features a song from each band, tracked last August with Anthony Cozzi of Radar Eyes; the B side consists of two covers (the Funs play the Pastels'"Crawl Babies," and Earring tackle the Silver Jews'"Trains Across the Sea") recorded to a Tascam cassette four-track this month.…[ Read more ]