By Sarah on February 25, 2012
I played for an extra hour, got a ton of requests, and worked in a showtune.  Friday night’s show was a real winner. Hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time. 9:54 PM Isidore Oh My Sky from Life Somewhere Else (Communicating Vessels) 9:52 […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged a.a. bondy, anais mitchell, anders parker, beth jeans houghton & the hooves of destiny, bright moments, cap'n jazz, carolina chocolate drops, chad vangaalen, chuck berry, city and colour, clogs, cults, damien jurado, dan deacon, devotchka, elvis perkins, field music, frankie rose, gorillaz, heartless bastards, isidore, jay farrar, jeff buckley, john talabot, kamuran akkor, kristin hersh, mark lanegan band, matt pond pa, mucca pazza, neko case, paul robeson, perfume genius, rachael yamagata, ram's pocket radio, robbie fulks, sarah slean, sharon van etten, skybox, the band, the klezmatics, the loneliest monk, the promise ring, tim fite, van morrison, will johnson, yellow ostrich, yim yames
By Sarah on December 14, 2010
Hey, it’s Mike again, you know the friend of Sarah’s from way back who occaisionally fulfills her need for a list of albums because she spends 90,000 hours agonizing over her own. (Do I really like this Andrew Bird album more than this other Andew Bird album?) Ha. I keed. So I did this thing last year, and since I mentioned Paper Route, and Gavin (Paper Route’s drummer) tweeted a link to the site, I gave Sarah a bunch of traffic, so she owes me, and that’s why you get the:
Posted in Album Reviews, Best Of | Tagged balkan beat box, butch walker, chromeo, devo, frank turner, gogol bordello, gorillaz, guest post, katy perry, maroon 5, the national, the soft pack
By Sarah on October 11, 2010
This is basically the worst week in the world for concerts. And by worst, I mean full of too many choices. I’ll be at the Brandi Carlile show at SPACE on Wednesday, and at DeVotchKa at Lincoln Hall on Saturday. The rest of the week is up in the air. I’ll probably be sobbing under my desk rather than making any real decisions.
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged aa bondy, adam haworth stephens, alejandro escovedo, andre williams, angus and julia stone, beat kitchen, bell x1, belle and sebastian, bottom lounge, brandi carlile, califone, catie curtis, chicago theatre, dave gonzalez and the stone river boys, devotchka, double door, dylan leblanc, edie carey, eli paperboy reed, elizabeth and the catapult, empty bottle, evanston space, fitzgeralds, four tet, gorillaz, guided by voices, ha ha tonka, helen money, hideout, james vincent mcmorrow, japandroids, jason isbell and the 400 unit, jennifer knapp, jesse sykes, joe pug, jon drake, jon hopkins, jon langford's skull orchard, jukebox the ghost, k'naan, katie herzig, kevin andrew prchal, kevin o'donnell, langhorne slim, lincoln hall, lissie, marc cohn, martina topley bird, martyrs', massive attack, matthew dear, meshell ndegeocello, metro, miike snow, mimicking birds, miniature tigers, neon indian, old town school of folk music, park west, patty loveless, phil wandscher, robbie fulks, rocky votolato, rose cousins, ruby coast, sally timms, schubas, scotland yard gospel choir, smith westerns, sufjan stevens, terri hendrix, the black atlantic, the changes, the felice brothers, the lighthouse and the whaler, the new pornographers, the riviera, the vic, the walkmen, the wildbirds, times new viking, tokyo police club, uic pavillion, uncommon ground, vandaveer |