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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesThe Week That Was and Will Be: What’s Happening at CHIRP Radio (4/13/15)
New Media:
- The second editon of CHIRP Factory Sessions, featuring Ultimate Painting
- Sotry Week Festival focuses on Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- Julie Mueller interviews The Funs
- Lisa Muscato & Sean Murty are Persons of Interest
- Kywo's In Rotation
- The MP3 Shuffle: Happy Birthday Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesFriday MP3 Shuffle - Happy Birthday Q-Tip Edition
Today is the birthday of Kamaal Ibn John Fareed aka Jonathan Davis aka Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest. Along with fellow MC Phife Dawg, Tip set a standard of excellence few musicians get to. Instantly distinctive voice? Check. Unbelievable flow on the mike? Check? Brilliant musical backgrounds, samples, and accompanyments over which to deliver poetic, insightful rhymes? Check and mate. (If The Low End Theory isn't somewhere in your list of Top Hip-Hop Albums of All Time, you're doing it wrong).
Let's wish the Midnight Marauder a Happy Birthday by grabbing your MP3 player, pressing the “shuffle” button, and sharing the first ten songs you hear:
CHIRP DJ writesCHIRP Factory Session - Ultimate Painting
All the way from the UK, the band Ultimate Painting joined us for an exclusive live session while on tour supporting White Fence and Twerps this spring. Featuring members of Veronica Falls and Mazes, the band was joined by Anthony Cozzi of Radar Eyes on bass for this exclusive performance!
Recorded and engineered by Mike Lust (Manor Mobile), this session features James Hoare on guitar/vocals, Jack Cooper on guitar/vocals, Neil Robinson on drums, and Anthony Cozzi on bass. Video and editing by Big Foot Media.
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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesIn Rotation: Kywo
Musically, Chicago is a city where there’s always a lot of things happening. Collaborating on new records is like sharing space on the “L.” The latest example is artist Kywo, who just released his Pearl EP. Vocalists from Cleveland and New Orleans lend a hand along with local musicians Keiya, ShowYouSuck and more. The end result is an album that reaches across genres for an electro-groovy experience.
Kywo’s latest (along with new releases from Ghastly Menace, Minsk, and Razorhouse) is available for listening on CHIRP Radio, both in rotation and by request – give us a call at 773-DJ-SONGS!
SKaiser writesThe Week That Was and Will Be: What’s Happening at CHIRP Radio (4/6/15)
New Media:
- Dylan Peterson interviews Natalie Prass
- A panel of authors discuss memoir and fiction at Columbia College's Story Week Festival of Writers
- Abbey Fox goes to SXSW: Day One, Day Two and Day Three
- The final four competitors are up in CHIRP Radio's Battle of the Bands
- In Rotation: Harm's Way
- The MP3 Shuffle: Happy Birthday Tony Orlando Edition