Music notes

Posted January 31, 2008 10:00 pm

'Building Your Band'

A free workshop titled "Building Your Band" takes place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. A panel -- featuring Chicago musicians, managers and accountants -- will talk about how to keep a band together, deal with business issues, ownership of equipment, delegating tasks and other mundane yet necessarily details of a musician's life. It's part of the Chicago Music Commission's "Musicians At Work Forum" series. Visit chicago-music.org or call (312) 744-6630.

Replacements author

Twin Cities music journalist Jim Walsh is in Chicago at 2 p.m. Saturday to read from and sign copies of "The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting," his recent oral history of that famed band. A Q&A session will follow his reading. It's at Borders, 4718 N. Broadway Ave., Chicago. Call (773) 334-7338.

Katrina, iTunes

Chicago Grammy winners OK Go (they're the treadmill guys on YouTube) teamed up with New Orleans funk brass group Bonerama to release "You're Not Alone," a five-song EP released Tuesday, Mardi Gras day, via iTunes. It'll benefit New Orleans musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

-- Mark Guarino

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