Here's a cool new website that promotes touring bands that come to the midwest by having the bands stop by their studios while on tour to record a couple songs that are posted on the site. It's a pretty impressive list of bands they've done and have in the pipeline:

Catfish Haven
The Impossible Shapes
Erin McKeown
Drakkar Sauna
Harry and the Potters
The High Strung
Jason Forrest
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Hockey Night
The Donkeys

Coming up in April:
Wilderness
Parts & Labor
Casey Dienel
The Living Blue
Voxtrot
Irving
Tapes N Tapes
Essex Green?
Margot & The Nuclear So & Sos
The Deathray Davies
The Ms

Coming up in May:
Midlake?
Frog Eyes
Sunset Rubdown
Two Gallants
Koufax
Cordero

I really want Harry and the Potters to come to Chicago, I can't think of a cooler band concept.