By Sarah on December 24, 2011
In honor of Christmas Eve Eve, I peppered my show last night with some holiday-esque songs. It was delightful. Although, I decided that next year, if I’m still on the air, I’m going to aim to play nothing but depressing, sad bastard music on the holidays. I’ll be back next week on New Year’s Eve […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged adanowsky, balkano, barenaked ladies, big bad voodoo daddy, boston spaceships, dar williams, dave carter, elvis perkins, fitz and the tantrums, jake schepps, janah, jon stewart, kate bush, korallreven, los campesinos!, louis armstrong, mavis staples, mayer hawthorne, over the rhine, owen, paper route, quiet company, sea lions, she & him, stephen colbert, the civil wars, the new pornographers, thomas comerford, tracy grammer, vandaveer, vienna teng
By Sarah on December 10, 2011
I had a week off, but now I’m back. Hear me again, same time next week, on CHIRP Radio, Friday nights, 8-10 pm Central. I even take requests! 9:57 PM Peter Wolf Crier Down Down Down from Inter-Be (Jagjaguwar) 9:54 PM Brown Bird Fingers to the Bone from Salt for Salt (Supply and Demand) 9:50 […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged ane brun, ani difranco, anthony da costa, atlas sound, bc camplight, boyd lee dunlop, brown bird, cloud control, daniel bedingfield, david vandervelde, devotchka, drc music, hannah fury, john prine, justin townes earle, kathleen edwards, korallreven, laura marling, luke roberts, mar caribe, mavis staples, mt. desolation, nneka, peggy sue, peter wolf crier, the mountain goats, thomas comerford, tycho, vampire weekend
By Sarah on September 28, 2011
The Hideout Block Party returned this year after a two-year hiatus. Taking over the stretch of Wabansia outside of the Hideout, as well as a large parking lot — Jon Langford joked that Mayor Emanuel came down and personally moved each and every Streets & Sanitation truck out of the lot, just for the Hideout […]
Posted in Concert Reviews | Tagged andrew bird, booker t. jones, hideout, jon langford, kids these days, mavis staples |
By Sarah on September 19, 2011
Everything about this week is just a lead-up to the Hideout Block Party. I’ve missed you, Andrew Bird. Monday, September 19 Robbie Fulks; Hideout. 7 pm, $10 suggested donation Tuesday, September 20 Cut Copy, Washed Out, Midnight Magic, Only Children; the Riviera. 8 pm, $27 Abigail Washburn, Mar Caribe, Alana Amran; Martyrs. 8 pm, $15 […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged abigail washburn, alana amran, alessi's ark, an horse, anais mitchell, andrew bird, ani difranco, aunt martha, bad bad meow, baliff, beat kitchen, bomba estereo, cut copy, dosh, evanston space, hemmingbirds, hideout, jill andrews, jon langford, jonathan coulton, kaki king, kevin andrew prchal, las guitarras de espana, laura marling, liam finn, lincoln hall, luisa malta, mar caribe, marques toliver, martyrs', mavis staples, mayne stage, midnight magic, movits!, okkervil river, only children, peter wolf crier, pinto and the bean, robbie fulks, schubas, the felice brothers, the riviera, the vic, the watson twins, they might be giants, washed out, white mystery |
By Mel on February 13, 2011
Twitter is for many things, including following some of your favorite musicians. Two of mine, Rosanne Cash and Kelly Hogan, have both expressed a similar sentiment in the last several weeks, which is that if Mavis Staples doesn’t win a Grammy today for You Are Not Alone, it will be a downright shame. I hope […]
Posted in Sharing | Tagged mavis staples
By Sarah on November 22, 2010
All because it’s Thanksgiving doesn’t mean that the music stops.
I’ll be at the Frames show on Tuesday, along with probably most of the Chicago people I know on Twitter. Irish rock tweet-up!
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged brandon flowers, brendan losch, brighton ma, brooke fraser, elephant gun, empty bottle, fran healy, franz nicolay and major general, gold motel, good old war, hideout, jake clemons, joshua radin, jubal fulks, junior brown, kelley james, kelly hogan, kevin andrew prchal, lincoln hall, little light, mavis staples, moneypenny, old town school of folk music, park west, red line tap, robbie fulks, sam bradley, schubas, scott and chris ligon, stornoway, subterranean, symphony center, the belleville outfit, the frames, the polkaholics, the riviera, the sea and cake, the vic, the wheeling birds, united federation of planets, vienna boy's choir