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CHIRP Playlist: Saturday, November 5, 2011

Sarah — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:24:07 +0000

Two hours, some songs, and a brand new, comfy chair in the studio. It’s like someone heard me whining on Twitter a while ago about the awful chair.

I’ll be back on the air on Saturday, November 26, from 2 to 4 pm, Central time.

1:56 PM Sufjan Stevens All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands from Seven Swans (Asthmatic Kitty)
1:52 PM Res The Hustler from How I Do (MCA)
1:51 PM Malajube Le Blizzard from La Caverne (MB3)
1:45 PM Joshua Radin These Photographs from We Were Here (Columbia)
1:41 PM Murder By Death The Big Sleep from In Bocca Al Lupo (East West)
1:38 PM The Mekons Space in Your Face from Ancient & Modern (Bloodshot)
1:32 PM Eliza Gilkyson Jedidiah 1777 from Paradise Hotel (Red House Records)
1:30 PM Devics Lie to Me from Push the Heart (Filter)
1:25 PM Meg Baird The Finder from Seasons on Earth (Drag City)
1:20 PM Tapes ‘n Tapes Freak Out from Outside (Ibid)
1:17 PM Skybox Fences from Morning After Cuts (self-released)
1:13 PM Phantogram Make a Fist from Nightlife EP (Barsuk)
1:07 PM Brown Bird Bilgewater from Salt for Salt (Supply and Demand)
1:03 PM Tom Waits Satisfied from Bad As Me (ANTI-)
1:01 PM The Highwaymen Highwayman from Highwayman (Columbia)
12:57 PM David Berkeley Chicago from After the Wrecking Ships (Ten Good Records)
12:53 PM Angus & Julia Stone A Book Like This from A Book Like This (Nettwerk)
12:49 PM My Brightest Diamond We Added It Up from All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
12:42 PM Chris Pureka Hangman from How I Learned to See in the Dark (Sad Rabbit)
12:38 PM Dessa The Chaconne from Castor, the Twin (Doomtree)
12:32 PM The Decemberists This Is Why We Fight from The King Is Dead (Capitol)
12:28 PM Quiet Company Fear & Fallacy, Sitting in a Tree from We Are All Where We Belong (self-released)
12:26 PM JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound I Can See Everything from Want More (Bloodshot)
12:22 PM The Heavy Circles Better from The Heavy Circles (Dynamite Child)
12:16 PM We Were Promised Jetpacks Picture of Health from In the Pit of the Stomach (FatCat)
12:14 PM Meg & Dia Monster from Something Real (Doghouse Records)
12:10 PM M. Ward Sweethearts On Parade from Transistor Radio (Merge)
12:06 PM Cristina Bautista Collector’s Expedition from Gold Parts EP (Local 638)
12:03 PM Neko Case Thrice All American from Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot)
12:00 PM Joe Pug Speak Plainly, Diana from Messenger (Lightning Rod Records)

This Week in Great Music: 9/6 – 9/12

Sarah — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:48:36 +0000

My theory is that the beginning of the week is so lackluster because Friday is full of awesome shows. I’ll be at SPACE for Anais Mitchell on Friday, and Lincoln Hall for Alice Peacock on Saturday.

Now, I’m going back to watching Dirty Jobs. Happy Labor Day.

Monday, September 6
Meh

Tuesday, September 7
Meh

Wednesday, September 8
Reggie’s 3 Year Anniversary Party, ft. Ha Ha Tonka, Treaty of Paris, more; Reggie’s Rock Club. 6 pm, $12-15
Carbon Leaf; SPACE. 8 pm, $17-30
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone; Subterranean. 8:30 pm, $8

Thursday, September 9
Ludo; Metro. 6 pm, $15
Marina and the Diamonds; Lincoln Hall. 9 pm, $15

Friday, September 10
Anais Mitchell; SPACE. 7 pm, $10-18
Sam Amidon, Via Tania; Old Town School of Folk Music. 8 pm, $12-16
Giving Tree, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, How Far To Austin, Future Laureates; House of Blues. 8:30 pm, $10-13
Heypenny, Kyle Andrews, Seafarer, A Light Sleeper; Mayne Stage. 8:30 pm, $7-10
Matt Ryd, Mike Mentzer, Little Light; Schubas. 9 pm, $10
Skybox, What Laura Says; Subterranean. 9 pm, $10

Saturday, September 11
Alice Peacock, Lincoln Hall. 7 pm, $20
Chris Smither, SPACE. 8 pm, $18-30

Sunday, September 12
Chicago Blues Harp Bash; SPACE. 6 pm, $15-25
Emily Wells, Angel Olsen; Schubas. 8 pm, $12

Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup

Sarah — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:14:40 +0000

In case you took an internet hiatus overnight, here’s some “news” for you: Lollapalooza’s lineup for the 2010 festival has been released in full, including all the letters and &s and *’s, because god forbid they write out Fuck Buttons on their website. The lineup had, of course, already been guessed to about 90% completion by the internet, thanks to leaks about the headliners and all those handy letters that Lolla put out for their Wheel of Fortune-esque teasers.

Aside from the fact that I’m always conflicted about Lollapalooza (I’ve lived here since 2006 and finally got around to dragging myself to the festival last year for the first time), the lineup seems a bit “…meh” to me. The headliners overall aren’t as huge as I’d come to expect from the festival, and the supporting tiers seem a bit thin. There aren’t a whole lot of acts who I’m dying to see, and a lot of the acts I’m excited about are actually ones who I’ve already seen (or will have seen by the time Lolla arrives). And I’m sure someone else can analyze this more in-depth, but there’s a huge lack of local music on the line-up. Lolla’s never made any pretense about being a local music festival — it’s a huge (inter)national festival which just happened to find its home in Chicago — but it would be nice to see some more nods towards its host city in its programming.

But, I’ll admit it, even though half of the internet is all OMG LOLLA SOLD OUT, I’m pretty excited that Lady Gaga is one of the headliners. Go ahead, take away any music street cred I had left, but I am absolutely going to be at her set. There, yeah, I said it. (Also, it will be interesting to see how she adapts her notoriously over-the-top stage show to fit the throw-and-go nature of Lollapalooza.)

So now, of course, we just have to wait (and wait, and wait) for the set schedules to come out. (Consequence of Sound has an unconfirmed day-by-day break-down.) Because, knowing my luck, all of the bands I want to see will be playing at the same time.

The lineup is under the jump for your perusal, in case you still haven’t seen it.

Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, the Strokes, Phoenix, Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, the Black Keys, the National, Spoon, Devo, Cypress Hill, Cut Copy, the New Pornographers, Erykah Badu, Slightly Stoopid, Grizzly Bear, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Wolfmother, Yeasayer, X Japan, MUTEMATH, Metric, Dirty Projectors, AFI, Mavis Staples, Matt & Kim, the xx, Drive-By Truckers, Blues Traveler.

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, the Temper Trap, Jamie Lidell, Frightened Rabbit, F Buttons, Deer Tick, Blitzen Trapper, Stars, Raphael Saadiq, the Cribs, Minus the Bear, Switchfoot, the Walkmen, Mumford & Sons, Wild Beasts, Rogue Wave, Los Amigos Invisibles, the Big Pink, the Dodos, Hockey, Cymbals Eat Guitars, B.o.B, Dawes, Warpaint, the Antlers, the Soft Pack, Rebelution, Balkan Beat Box.

Wavves, American Bang, the Ike Reilly Assassination, Company of Thieves, Nneka, Harlem, the Constellations, Miniature Tigers, Mimicking Birds, the Kissaway Trail, HEALTH, Javelin, the Morning Benders, Foxy Shazam, Violent Soho, Royal Bangs, NEON TREES, Freelance Whales, Semi Precious Weapons, Dan Black, The Band of Heathens, Dragonette, My Dear Disco, Shawn Fisher, Neon Hitch, Skybox, The Ettes, Jukebox the Ghost, These United States, MyNameIsJohnMichael.

This Week in Great Music: 1/11 – 1/17

Sarah — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:35 +0000

The beginning half of this week has apparently decided to take a vacation. I’d sure like to do the same, but that’s not going to be happening any time soon.

The big attraction this week is the Tomorrow Never Knows festival, hosted at Schubas and Lincoln Hall. There are a lot of great bands performing, and many shows are already sold out. I’ll be at the Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) show on Saturday. Perhaps this time, I will plan better so that I don’t have to hold my coat the entire time (hello, no coat check) like I did at the Butch Walker show.

Monday, January 11
Nothing.

Tuesday, January 12
Nothing!

Wednesday, January 13
Nothing!1!

Thursday, January 14
The Powwows, Martyrs. 8 pm, $7
G. Love and Special Sauce, House of Blues. 8 pm, $25.50-28
Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy’s Legends. 9 pm, $40
Surfer Blood and Freelance Whales, Schubas. 9 pm, sold out
Voxtrot, Lincoln Hall. 9 pm, $15

Friday, January 15
City and Colour and Lissie, Metro. 7:30 pm, $21-25
Sons of the Never Wrong, Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret (1383 N Milwaukee). 7:30 pm, $10 (two drink minimum)
Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy’s Legends. 9 pm, sold out
Neon Indian and The Hood Internet, Schubas. 9 pm, sold out
Atlas Sound, Lincoln Hall. 10 pm, $15

Saturday, January 16
Too Hot To Handel: The Jazz Gospel Messiah, Auditorium Theatre. 7:30 pm, $30-65
Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy’s Legends. 9:30 pm, sold out
Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Sharon Van Etten, and Peter Wolf Crier, Schubas. 10 pm, sold out
Bowerbirds, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Julie Doiron, Lincoln Hall. 10 pm, $15

Sunday, January 17
Too Hot To Handel: The Jazz Gospel Messiah, Auditorium Theatre. 3 pm, $30-65
Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy’s Legends. 7:30 pm, sold out.
Clues, Skybox, Pomegranates, and Netherfriends, Schubas. 9 pm, $15
Lee Fields and the Expressions, Lincoln Hall. 9 pm, $15