A few Chicago music news bites

• Want to ring in the New Year with some live music? The Tribune's Greg Kot published a roundup of some notable shows happening in Chicago on New Year's Eve in case you still need to work out your plans. Also check out his article on notable shows happening in during the first few months of 2011

• It's always exciting to see great Chicago bands showing up on Daytrotter.com. Earlier this week the site posted a live session from our city's own Unicycle Loves You that's well worth downloading. You can grab it here

• On Christmas Day hometown rapper Lupe Fiasco premiered the video for his latest, Modest Mouse-sampling single "The Show Goes On." The tracks comes from his upcoming third album, Lasers, out March 8th

• Loud Loop Press has some very cool photos up from the recent "Beats and Blogs" show at Subterranean, which you might have read about right here on this site. Click here to check out shots of White Mystery and Hollows