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By Sarah on May 5, 2012
You can hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time. 9:55 PM Retribution Gospel Choir Poor Man’s Daughter from 2 (Sub Pop) 9:50 PM Lushlife Still I Hear the Word Progress (featuring Styles P) from Plateau Vision (Western Vinyl) 9:48 PM Benjamin Taylor Something […]
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By Sarah on February 11, 2012
Friday was my birthday.  If I had it my way, I would have played two hours of Andrew Bird songs, but alas. Hear my delightful music selections every Friday night on Chicago’s own CHIRP Radio, from 8 – 10 pm Central time. 9:53 PM Errors Pleasure Palaces from Have Some Faith in Magic (Rock Action) […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged andrew bird, brad yoder, cate le bon, craig finn, errors, gotye, heartless bastards, jason stein quartet, los nombres, lost in the trees, mucca pazza, neko case, okkervil river, over the rhine, polica, porcelain raft, rufus wainwright, shearwater, the decemberists, the milk carton kids, the mountain goats, the new pornographers, trailer trash tracys, vandaveer, wovenhand
By Sarah on January 14, 2012
I got through a four hour show without once mentioning the fact that it was Friday the Thirteenth. Â You can thank me later. Next week, I’ll be back to my normal-sized two hour show, nothing to worry about. Four hours of me is a lot to take. 11:54 PM John Aler & Gino Quilico Les […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged 16 horsepower, a hawk and a hacksaw, apex manor, april smith and the great picture show, bell x1, booker t. jones, brandi carlile, brown bird, carissa's wierd, cat power, chris connelly, cloud control, coconut records, darkness falls, dave douglas, dayna kurtz, doomtree, fleet foxes, gino quilico, girlyman, guided by voices, ha ha tonka, herculaneum, jacaszek, jason adasiewicz's sun rooms, jc brooks & the uptown sound, john aler, kathleen edwards, lawrence arabia, little ben & the cheers, los campesinos!, low, luke roberts, mar caribe, marissa nadler, mavis staples, mumford & sons, nada surf, nicole mitchell, rainer maria, ray davies, roisin murphy, rufus wainwright, sandro perri, save the clocktower, sea lions, sigur ros, sloan, the avett brothers, the benny goodman quartet, the darcys, the get up kids, the mighty imperials, the milk carton kids, tiger bones, whitehorse
By Sarah on October 8, 2011
Once again, the lovely people at CHIRP have seen fit to allow me to play songs for a few hours. Thanks to everyone who listened, requested songs, Tweeted, and all that great stuff. Here’s what I played, in case you’d like to relive the magic. Your next chance to hear me on CHIRP is Saturday, […]
Posted in Radio Playlists | Tagged aimee mann, alela diane, amanda palmer, azita, balam acab, barn owl, beirut, ben lee, blitzen trapper, brighton ma, cadillac sky, clap your hands say yeah, dosh, elvis perkins, grey delisle, holly mcnarland, in tall buildings, jens lekman, lost in the trees, luke temple, m. ward, matt pond pa, meg baird, megafaun, neko case, over the rhine, owen pallett, pajama club, pete fountain, quiet company, rufus wainwright, shooter jennings, sixteen horsepower, sufjan stevens, the del mccoury band, the low anthem, the mekons, the minor canon, tinariwen, van morrison, wild flag, young man
By Sarah on August 8, 2011
Lollapalooza’s over, and now the city as a whole collapses into a post-Lolla nap. For the whole week. I mean, really. Is it just me, or is there really very little of note going on this week? Monday, August 8 My Brightest Diamond with Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras; Millennium Park. 6:30 pm, free Robbie Fulks, […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged chicago symphony orchestra, chicago youth symphony orchestra, hideout, jenny scheinman, lincoln hall, lucy woodward, mia leblon, millennium park, my brightest diamond, ravinia, robbie fulks, rufus wainwright
By Sarah on April 3, 2011
This technically could fall under “Hooray for Covers”, too. Â I first wrote about this years ago, on another long-dead music blog that I used to keep, and was reminded of it today when another Marianne Faithfull song came up in iTunes. Â So here, have some vintage blogging from me, circa November 2008. I grabbed Marianne’s […]
Posted in Sharing | Tagged marianne faithfull, rufus wainwright