* Numero Group (see Gapers Block for more) has a new release coming out next week of music from East St. Louis's Young Disciples collective; Gorilla vs. Bear has a download.

* The Russell Simmons/DJ Lantern Obama mixtape is out. Writes Chicagoland correspondent S.: "I make no gurarantees. But since DJ Green Lantern and Russell Simmons were involved, it represents some kind of serious apex of Obama-related folk culture." Track listing here.

* Also via S.: Big Black Talk About "Fucking"