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Artist Interviews The Hecks
CHIRP's Katie Owens caught up with local band The Hecks on a whirlwind tour of downtown Chicago where they talked about overcoming band conflicts, "tour tapes," confounding live experiences and the local bands you should be listening to now.
produced by Matthew McFarland
photo by Katie Owens
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Volunteer: Stories of Philanthropy Making Music Personal
Clothes, dinner, a computer, tires, scuba gear. You can have just about anything delivered to straight to your home these days. Thanks to GroupMuse, now you can add live musicians to the list. And they’ll play your classical house party for free, too.
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Person of Interest Person of Interest: Nick Moore
Where: River North
“If you’re not getting the opportunities you want, you have to make your own.”
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Artist Interviews La Luz
Before their headlining show at the Empty Bottle, Hardly Art's La Luz sat down with CHIRP's Melanie Kruvelis. The band talked about developing their surf-noir sound, calling bullshit on the "all-girl band" label, and making people dance.
produced by Melanie Kruvelis (@internetmelanie)
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First Time First Trip - Julia Weiss
Julia is a member of Second City's National Touring Company and The Improvised Star Trek. She is a regular contributor to The Paper Machete and Sadsacks and Wisecracks, and has also read cool things at LitMash, WriteClub, Collector's Edition, Oral, The Seven Deadly Sins reading series and other neat shows around Chicago. Julia writes plays, too, and is a big fan of art in general. Her twitter handle is @Weiss_Tea, her favorite food is anything bread, and in January an adult man pooped next to her on the CTA, changing her life forever.
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