Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • Gapers Block posted an excellent piece on West African, desert-guitar group Tinariwen.

• • WindyCityRock.net reviews the latest EP from Soft Speaker.

• • Sun-Times’ Jim DeRo writes that the Billy Joel/Elton John concert at Wrigley this summer may have been cancelled because no such tour was ever happening in the first place.

• • Sting is coming to Ravinia this summer with orchestra in tow.

UPDATE:  NBC 5 reports that Elton John and Billy Joel have canceled their performance at Wrigley field scheduled for July 7.  According to an interview John gave on NBC’s “The Talk” Joel has decided to take the year off from touring.  There’s no word yet on who, if anyone, might be named to replace the duo.

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The Chicago Cubs are bringing back Elton John and Billy Joel, who played the ballpark last summer, as part of their summer concert series.

Making their first appearance  at the corner of Waveland and Sheffield for an expected two-night stand will be the Dave Matthews Band.

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Many Chicago based artists were nominated for Grammys at the 52nd Annual Awards show held last night.

But only two, hip-hop diva Kanye West and jazz singer Kurt Elling, managed to walk away winners.

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