By Sarah on June 9, 2012
This week’s playlist looks significantly less pretty, as there were some tech issues with the playlist tracker.  I’m sure you won’t be too devastated. As always, you can hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time. 8:00 hour Quiet Company/Everything Louder Than Everything Else/We […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged alexander tucker, alpha consumer, astronautalis, ben lee, bon iver, boozoo bajou, brandi carlile, butch walker & the black widows, butterfly boucher, califone, cold specks, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, eluvium, felix, fred williams & the jewels band, grass widow, gregory and the hawk, ha ha tonka, hard-fi, idewild, indigo girls, japandroids, jbm, jennifer o'connor, jesca hoop, kelly hogan, killer mike, langhorne slim & the law, louis prima, low, many places, maritime, matthew dear, mike reed's people places & things, minus the bear, nathan mathes, neon indian, nice face, nick waterhouse, noe venable, outkast, quiet company, sallie ford & the sound outside, sarah slean, sex life, smoking popes, sufjan stevens, teddy thompson, the blacks, the hold steady, the mekons, the platters, the right now, the tallest man on earth, the wooden birds, these united states, violens, yeah yeah yeahs, yellow ostrich, young man
By Sarah on December 5, 2011
It’s been quiet around here. Â Sorry for that. Â I’ve got a Best of 2011 guest post coming up from Mike at Land of Absurdity. Â It’ll be list-y. Monday, December 5 Avey Tare, Eric Copeland; Schubas. 7 pm, $15 Tuesday, December 6 The National, Local Natives, Wye Oak; the Aragon. 7 pm, $35 Harper Blynn; SPACE. […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged anne heaton, antje duvekot, arc in round, avey tare, bill brickey, bon iver, cadillac palace theatre, chicago theatre, dbp, empty bottle, eric copeland, erin mckeown, evanston space, harper blynn, jeffrey david, jessica lea mayfield, lincoln hall, local natives, meg hutchinson, metro, natalia zukerman, old town school of folk music, over the rhine, peter bradley adams, ryan adams, save the clocktower, schubas, shemekia copeland, still corners, the aragon, the national, the war on drugs, tori amos, uic pavilion, vapor eyes, vintage blue, windbreaker, winterbloom, wye oak
By Sarah on November 19, 2011
I’ll be occupying the Friday 8-10 pm Central slot through the end of the year, so you can hear me on a regular basis on CHIRP Radio. It’ll be great. 9:58 PM Rainer Maria Long Knives from Long Knives Drawn (Polyvinyl) 9:54 PM The Unsettlers Red to Black from The Unsettlers (self-released) 9:50 PM Los […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged a.a. bondy, andrew bird, angie aparo, ani difranco, aterciopelados, bon iver, brandi carlile, breakers broken, cass mccombs, crooked fingers, darren johnston's gone to chicago, kathleen edwards, los campesinos!, m. ward, mayer hawthorne, okkervil river, owen, rainer maria, sarah jarosz, sensation junkies, the decemberists, the hold steady, the lijadu sisters, the new pornographers, the unsettlers, thomas comerford
By Sarah on October 23, 2011
Who would have guessed that an empty radio studio in a manufacturing building would be creepy at midnight when you’re there all by yourself? Crazy, isn’t it? Â Made a couple of good musical discoveries, though, of artists I’d never heard before randomly selecting them to play. That’s always a plus. Here’s what I played to […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged a.c. newman, andrew bird, azita, bon iver, bonnie prince billy, brian wright and the waco tragedies, chin up chin up, dan mangan, deer tick, devotchka, feist, guster, helen money, jc brooks & the uptown sound, joe firstman, johnny flynn, kate mcgarrigle, laura marling, malajube, mar caribe, mates of state, melissa ferrick, mike and the censations, my brightest diamond, neil young, neko case, over the rhine, pinetop seven, rachael cantu, regina spektor, ryan adams, sarah siskind, sharon van etten, st. vincent, tegan and sara, the acorn, the cell phones, the david mayfield parade, the mountain goats, the traveling wilburys, thea gilmore, twin sister, vashti bunyan, we were promised jetapacks
By Sarah on July 18, 2011
I’ll be at Lincoln Hall to catch the Old 97’s tonight. They’re one of those bands who I always seem to miss when they come into town. No more! And while I probably won’t be able to make it, everyone else should go to the Timber Timbre/Marissa Nadler show on Thursday. I don’t know much […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged algebro, allison moorer, allstate arena, balkan beat box, beau sample, bela fleck and the flecktones, black bear combo, blonde redhead, bon iver, briar rabbit, chiara mangiameli, chicago theatre, chris tobias, derek nelson and the musicians, dj romasoul, etran finatawa, evanston space, faces on film, gillian welch, hideout, jon hopkins, justin jones and the driving rain, king creosote, las guitarras de espana, lincoln hall, mana, marissa nadler, mayne stage, metro, mickey, millennium park, my gold mask, oh land, old 97's, other lives, rachele eve, radar eyes, robbie fulks, robbie gjersoe, robert ellis, schubas, sia, steve earle and the dukes, steve leaf, subterranean, the drummond bros., the rosebuds, the vic, thomas dybdahl, timber timbre, uncommon ground, wild flag, ximena sarinara, yemen blues
By Sarah on January 7, 2010
Here’s a peek into my music nerd past: once upon a time, I was in my high school’s jazz band. Â While we did our fair share of standards, we mixed it up with some songs of the moment — I was in high school when the whole swing revival was happening, after all. Â (Okay, well, […]
Posted in Sharing | Tagged bon iver, eau claire memorial high school, justin vernon