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algabor writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2015: Al Gabor
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from volunteer Al Gabor. In no special order--all of these have been my number one in 2015 for at least a week. |
SKaiser writesWhats Happening at CHIRP Radio (12/14/15)
Upcoming Events:
- CHIRP Welcomes Jay Farrar to Old Town School of Folk Music (4544 N. Lincoln Avenue) Friday, December 18 at 7:00 PM | RSVP Here
New Media:
- Check out the latest CHIRP Factory Session with Dutch Punk legends The Ex and saxophonist Ken Vandermark!
- Patrick Seymour writes An Interview With Spot and Joe Carducci of SST Records
- First Sign: Anne Elizabeth Moore
- Kwame Shorter interviews Space Blood
- Person of Interest: Kelsie Hardison
- Our volunteers’ favorite albums of 2015 are featured on month long on the blog
- Tyler Clark spends December highlighting 25 Off-the-Wall Holiday Tunes for your listening enjoyment
Top of the CHIRP Charts:
1. Josh Berman Trio – A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
2. Mooner – Masterpiece (Aerial Ballet)
3. Grimes – Art Angels (4AD)
SKaiser writesThe Chicago Help Initiative
The face of homelessness brings images to mind of souls bared on cardboard and subsequent gratitude for the familiar jangle drop in a cup. Sometimes we know the progressive story of why someone is living on the street. Sometimes it’s not that easy. We all know them, and may even find ourselves among them.
For one Chicago woman, it took the experiences of forcing homeless people out of condo building doorways she sells on Michigan Avenue for her to realize as a community in a great city, this just isn’t right.
“I thought tourists must think we’re horrible by the way our homeless population are treated,” Jacqueline Hayes, founder and President of the Chicago Help Initiative (CHI), said.
It was 1999 and Hayes’ first phone call was to Monsignor Boland of Chicago Catholic Charities. He offered dining hall space at the Archdiocese of Chicago to host meals for those in need. To say services expanded from there is an understatement.
Patrick Seymour - Dizzy Spells writesAn Interview With Spot and Joe Carducci of SST Records
Spot and Joe Carducci may be best known for their work at the seminal record label SST in the early to mid-'80s working with bands like Black Flag, Minutemen, Husker Du, Saccharine Trust, Saint Vitus, and many others, but that is only a small portion their talents. Spot is also a musician and a photographer who published his first book of photography last year, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening - Southern California Life : Skate/Beach/Punk 1969-1982 (Sinecure Books). His photos show his sharp eye in documenting the active multifaceted southern Californian scene.
Joe Carducci is the author of four books including Rock and the Pop Narcotic, Enter Naomi: SST, LA and All That… and most recently a collection of essays and interviews Life Against Dementia (all available via Redoubt Press). His forthcoming book Stone Male: Requiem for the Living Picture is coming out next year.
Spot and Joe will be in Chicago this Saturday 12/12 at 3pm for a free reading and Q&A at Permanent Records.
Spot, your book Sounds of Two Eyes Opening documents the Punk, Surf, and Skate culture of the time. In what ways were they linked and how were they different? How did you get started as a photographer?
SPOT: Those three activities were all happening concurrently in Hermosa Beach, away from the media eye of the rest of LA. Of course, everyone saw HB as a surf enclave, which it was, and paid no attention to the rollerskating, skateboarding or trash rocking. In that regard, all they saw was Venice, Dogtown and Hollywood. We lived in this sad, friendly stew of dying hippiedom and lingering post-beatism. There was a "beach folk" mentality holding it all together that was exhilarating and depressing, and then there was the fog. No secret about photography. Just something I'd wanted to do since I was a kid. Got a serious camera in 1969 and figured it out and didn't look back.
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CHIRP DJ writesCHIRP Factory Session - The Ex with Ken Vandermark
Dutch Punk legends The Ex perform with saxophonist Ken Vandermark. Recorded live at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL. Andy Moor (guitar), Terrie Hessels (guitar), Katherina Bornefeld (drums), Arnold de Boer (guitar & vocals), and Ken Vandermark (saxophone). Video of the session was captured & edited by Big Foot Media.
1. "4 Billion Tulip Bulbs" (0:13)
2. "Last Famous Words" (8:20)
3. "Addis Hum" (15:19)
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