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CHIRP volunteer Melanie Kruvelis hung out with Jake, Dylan, and Pat of local band Varsity at the CHIRP studios at the tail end of 2015. They chatted about starting a band with friends, the songs that always get stuck in their heads, and the best way to shotgun a beer.
produced by Melanie Kruvelis (@internetmelanie)
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Steve Dawson and Diane Christiansen have been co-conspirators, husband and wife, and leaders of the band Dolly Varden for more than 20 years. They live in Wicker Park with their dog Neville and their two rats, Gnocchi and Loretta. When they aren’t singing together, Diane spends her time making paintings and animations (christiansenstudio.com) and Steve teaches songwriting at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
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Touring in support of their debut full-length, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us, Beach Slang made it through a winter storm just in time to headline the Subterranean. Before their set, Amanda Roscoe Mayo talked with frontman James Alex about how punk connects people regardless of age, falling down the rabbit hole of Tiny Desk Concerts, and the importance of books.
produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo
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Jeremy Owens is the creator, producer and host of You're Being Ridiculous. He makes a delicious roast chicken and wants to be Nora Ephron when he grows up.
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James Gordon better known as G.P.A.(Greatest Poet Alive) is an international award winning author of six books of Poetry and one novel of Mystery. He has performed all over the United States with his scintillating poetry and can be seen on epsidoes of Empire, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD , and Shameless, as well as the movies Animals, A Slice of Life, and Batman vs Superman. James can be found at GPA MEDIA INC and on Twitter at gr8estpoetalive.
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