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Andy Frye writesPinksqueeze: Their New Single and Why They Love Chicago’s Music Scene
by Andy Frye
The once-young music fan in me was lucky to catch local favorites PINKSQUEEZE when they played at Cobra Lounge on May 11 with indie rock veterans Skating Polly. The all-queer foursome—comprised of Ava (vocals/guitar … she/her), Anna (bass… she/her), April (vocals/guitar… she/they), and Logan (drums …they/them)—released their first full-length album Be Gay Have Fun last summer to great acclaim.
Pinksqueeze’s presence at that warm Saturday night show seemed to signal the band had brought summer back early, exclusively for their friends and fans at Cobra Lounge. Certainly, Pinksqueeze put on a performance that was everything you'd expect from the band: kinetic, emotional, outspoken, and super fun.
The Chicago band’s guitarist, April, described it as a homecoming in more than one way.
"We always love playing at the Cobra Lounge, and this was such a fun show. We were excited to play with Skating Polly…they are such a rad band that we've been listening to.” She added "Some years ago, our bassist Anna interviewed Skating Polly early in their music career—so it felt like a really special full circle moment to play with them. And they were really lovely to meet and play with."
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Q&A With Ghost Days (Performing at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on 6/30)
Chicago artist Alessia Kato of Ghost Days will perform at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on Sunday June 30th. We recently caught up with Alessia to ask a few questions…
So...What’s going on? Tell us about your current releases and/or upcoming shows (such as CHIRP Night at the Whistler!).
Hello! We’ve been doing well, keeping busy playing some shows and working on new music-we’re going to be releasing an EP/short album later this year. We recently released a single called "vampire blu." I had a lot of fun writing this song and bringing it to life.
We’re looking forward to our next show for CHIRP radio at the Whistler with the amazing Desert Liminal! I’ve been a huge fan of theirs for a while now, so it’s going to be really special.
How do you go about turning your thoughts, ideas, and feelings into sounds?
I guess I have a very fluid and organic process. It might start off with just playing around on guitar or synth and then adding on to it. Sometimes it might start with a drum beat and then I just sort of jam to it and then something will form out of that.
I hear melodies in my head all day and a lot of times I’ll try to get them out and find the right lyrics that express the feelings of what I’m hearing inside.
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Q&A With Sarah Jane Quillin of Desert Liminal (Performing at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on 6/30)
Chicago artist Sarah Jane Quillin of Desert Liminal will performing solo at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on Sunday June 30th. We recently caught up with Sarah Jane to ask a few questions…
Tell us a little about the band.
Desert Liminal is a three piece experimental trio of me, Rob Logan, nd Mallory Linehan. I started Desert Liminal and am the primary songwriter, so I sometimes perform a stripped down set as Desert Liminal solo for smaller, active listening environments. I'm doing DL solo for the CHIRP benefit at the Whistler on June 30.
So...What’s going on? Tell us about your current releases and/or upcoming shows (such as CHIRP Night at the Whistler!)
After the June 30 solo show at the Whistler I am going to tour with the Desert Liminal trio in Europe for the first time. We are supporting DEHD on a leg of their Poetry album release tour and will be traveling to Germany, Amsterdam, France, and Switzerland.
I love DEHD who have been great mentors, I love my band, and I'm ecstatic to be going on this tour of Europe. After that, Desert Liminal has a finished record that will be released later this year.
Ninja writesCHIRP Radio Interview: Dianogah
This article was written based on a conversation for our CHIRP Artist Interviews podcast. You can also listen to that episode here.
Chicago’s Dianogah, named after the garbage-loving monster from the original Star Wars film, never left. They just morph into other bands.
Jay Ryan plays bass, Jason Harvey plays another bass, and Kip McCabe plays drums. Dianogah most recently released remasters of all four of their full-length albums and a collection of singles and soundtrack tracks, reissuing them on vinyl pressed at local pressing plant, Smashed Plastic. Preorder is open for this reissue.
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Q&A With Flowtone (Performing at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on 12/5)
Chicago band Flowtone will perform at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on Tuesday, December 5th. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Nissim recently to ask a few questions…
So...What’s going on? Tell us about your current releases and/or upcoming shows (such as CHIRP Night at the Whistler!).
Well, we just released a new music video for our new single called 'Eats Me Alive'. That was a really fun time to film and we're really happy with how the song came out. Of course, we'll be playing at CHIRP Night at the Whistler on December 5th. Super excited for that!
How do you go about turning your thoughts, ideas, and feelings into sounds?
The music usually leads the process. By that I mean, a lot of times I'll sing gibberish just to map out a melody, then that informs phonetically which lyrics could fall into place. The song doesn't feel "complete" though until there's a full concept in place. That takes a while, a lot of long walks and pondering different ideas and how I should express them. There is a moment where it starts to make sense and the momentum of that helps me finish the song.