A two-year anniversary might seem a little unimpressive after Sub Pop's 20th last weekend, but Sing Sing's is no small accomplishment. In the past two years, it's grown from a scrappy but ambitious monthly at Havana, then Chop Suey, to a routinely slamming bimonthly War Room party with its own 12-inch, Sing Sing Breaks, out on Fools Gold. Promoter and DJ Clayton Vomero has brought to Seattle such talent as Chromeo, A-Trak, Sinden, Andrew WK, Matt & Kim, Low Budget, Flosstradamus—the list really goes on and on. For tonight's celebration, Sing Sing is bringing in Mattie Safer of the Rapture, who has presumably spent the last year basking in the afterglow of opening for Daft Punk. I'm sure I've seen Safer DJ before—some afterparty?—but I can't seem to recall a thing, which either means he's neither memorably good or bad or that he works the party into full-on blackout mode. My best guess is the latter.

I totally dug your article in the Stranger this week, but wanted to let you in on a tip: The Stevie on the radio of "The Beaches All Closed" is actually Stevie Nicks.

This, of course, changes everything.

A few important details didn't make it into this week's feature, in which I obsess over the Microphones' totally obsession-worthy and just reissued 2001 K album, the Glow pt. 2. I'll try to set things right here:

-Most importantly, the article should've contained the information for Mount Eerie's upcoming show at the Vera Project with Why? It's going to be an amazing show, and the only reason you're excused from going is if you decide to go see No Kids and Dirty Projectors at Chop Suey instead. Here's that show info:

Thursday April 17 | 7:30 PM @ the Vera Project
WHY? (Anticon)
Mt. Eerie
Julie Doiron
Generifus
$9 ($8 w/ club card)
Always all-ages

-I should've mentioned that Phil Elverum hardly ever plays any of the songs off of the Glow pt. 2 anymore, that when he returned from abroad as Mount Eerie, he kind of did forget or let go of his songs, you can't stay in the same water twice and all that.

-I also should've mentioned a couple other upcoming Elverum-related releases: Mount Eerie's Black Wooden Ceiling Opening, due out May 27th on PW Elverum & Sun, and an upcoming D+ "best of" retrospective.

Sorry for the omissions.

Also in the Claypool band are Critters Buggin’s Mike Dillon, Paulo Baldi from Cake, and Eric McFadden.

Eric McFadden is not in Claypool's band. Drummer Paulo Baldi plays with Cake and has toured with Eric McFadden.

Had to clear that up.

From: a.howellchicago@REDACTED
Subject: Erroneous Race Statements in Lupe Fiasco Article...
Date: January 9, 2008 4:13:20 PM PST

Hello Jonathan,

I love your piece on Lupe Fiasco, but you purveyed a false statement. Matthew Santos is of filipino/Spanish decent, not a so-called "white-boy". Please, check your facts.

It's funny how prevalent of a role race has in todays media relations, no?

Thank You,

--
Andrew Howell
Director of Marketing
Soltis Arts, Inc.
2940 N. Allen Av
Chicago, IL 6061

My response:

Hey Andrew, thanks for writing.

Apologies for misrepresenting Santos' ethnicity. It's an assumption I made based on appearance (and the sound of his voice, to be totally honest); I never considered the ramifications of that assumption being wrong. My guess is that Santos gets that pretty often, but perhaps not. To be safe I should've said something like "non-black soul singer," which sounds totally dumb, but would've covered my ass. I wanted to make the point of the black/white crossover, which is clearly part of a larger trend as noted in the story, so I decided it was important to mention some aspect of race. I checked out a bunch of articles about and pictures of Matt Santos and none of them gave me any indication he was anything other than white. Again, that's an assumption made on my own white-boy behalf, and it's not fair.

As far as the role of race in today's media relations, sure it's prevalent. It will always be prevalent. That's not a good thing or a bad thing, it's just how it is. Race is real and differences are real and assumptions are real, if misleading. The point is not to make excuses but to see the meaning behind the roles as clearly as possible.

_{Matthew Santos, from his MySpace}

A similar error was perpetrated by this staff before.

We are, somewhat apologetically, white folks over here in the music department. As a so-called "white boy" myself, I have no qualms with the term, even if I could be more specifically described as a "Jew boy." That doesn't excuse the error, and Santos and his people have every right to set the record straight. Apologies to Matthew Santos and non-white, non-black people everywhere.