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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesIn Rotation: Gel Set
Chicago's Gel Set (aka Laura Callier), last heard kicking it with Stacian on the 2014 split-release Voorhees, is back with her own full-length album on Moniker Records. Her dance floor Darkwave tracks mix humor and melancholy with an edge. Much like Xiu Xiu and Tobacco, her digital arrangements are a path to the kind of subconcious impulses that don't show up in the Top 40 world. You can hear selections from Gel Set's new album on CHIRP Radio!
Greg Kantowicz writesThe Gig Poster: Mac McCaughan
Who: Mac MacCaughan
Where: Strange Matter
Eddie writesFlippin’ A! Five More Songs with F-Bombs in the Title
Last June Eddie Sayago cited some great songs that feature the king of profanities. Here are five more…
Pennywise, “F$$k Authority“ from the album Land of the Free? (2001, Epitaph)
The punk-rock band from California chose its name from the very terrifying clown in Stephen King’s novel It. They were one of the many punk bands that arose from the SoCal punk scene of the 1990s, along with Sublime, Green Day, The Offspring, and blink-182. Since they never were signed to a major label, this song could a big f-you to the suits who controlled what kids bought and listened it before the age of illegal downloading, YouTube, and social media.
ronharlow writesTake Two: “Blinded By the Light” (Bruce Springsteen vs. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band)
written by Ron Harlow
Without ever trying, I’ve heard “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band countless times, and so have you. It sounds like the guy is singing, “ripped up like a douche.” Recently, a friend tried to convince me the disputed lyric is actually “deuce.” I was skeptical. Then he tried to convince me the song is a Bruce Springsteen cover. I was incredulous.
I’m no more than an average Springsteen fan. I was there when he played Wrigley Field in 2012. I didn’t actually see him; I was sitting on the curb on Waveland Avenue. But I liked what I heard; when I wasn’t listening to the girl I was more interested in sitting next to me on the curb. I own used copies of Born to Run and Born in the USA on vinyl, but I’ve never taken a head-first dive into Springsteen’s discography, which is why I’d never listened to his first album: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ.
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesWhat’s Happening at CHIRP Radio (Week of August 3)
COMING UP THIS WEEK:
- On Wednesday, Aug. 5 at 7:00pm the Northwest Chicago Film Society presents a rare screening of IT’S TRAD, DAD!, an early work from A Hard Day's Night director Richard Lester. The screening will take place at the Auditorium at Northeastern Illinois University (Building E, 3701 W. Bryn Mawr). Tickets are $5.
- TONIGHT, Aug. 3 CHIRP Radio welcomes Duck Tails to Schubas
NEW MEDIA:
- Stories of Philanthropy: Need the Service
- Katie Owens interviews Bully
- Shelby Hagstrom interviews The Congegation
- Shelby Hagstrom interviews Cathedrals