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SKaiser writesQ&A with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
Greg Ormont from one of the fastest growing emerging groups in the jam and festival scene, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, sat down to answer a few questions with CHIRP Radio. Don't miss them Thursday, March 26 at The Tonic Room. Doors open at 9:00 PM | Show at 10:00 PM
Greg Ormont: Lead Vocals | Rhythm Guitar
Jeremy Schon: Guitar | Vocals
Ben Carrey: Bass | Vocals
Alex Petropulos: Drumagic | Electro-Swag
CHIRP: How are you guys feeling at the Midwestern point of your tour?
Ormont: Exhausted, haha, and incredibly grateful. This month-long tour has felt more like a vacation than usual. We began in the Southeast, spent a weekend in Florida for AURA Music Festival where we played a late night set, and then spent a vacation day in New Orleans on the way to a two-week Colorado run. While out west, we got the chance to hit the hot springs in Steamboat Springs and some of us snowboarded and skied at Snowmass in Aspen. Now we’re trucking through the Midwest for some awesome shows on the way home to Baltimore. All of our shows this month have been explosive, complete with epic sit-ins and packed houses. We’re having a ton of fun.
Joy Merten (Into the Void) writesTacoma, Fugazi, and Avacado Smoothies: A Conversation With A.M. Stations
I met up with local band A.M. Stations to talk about their most recent release, Tacoma, how important improvisation is to the band’s sound, and how we all really love Fugazi.
SKaiser writesMinor Characters Release of Voir Dire Happens Tomorrow
Tuesday October 28. The day of Voir Dire is here.
Minor Characters shared the heart of their first full length album with CHIRP’s Shawna Kaiser the night of their release show.
Voir Dire, pronounced VUAH DEAR, is a French legal phrase that refers to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth, or to say what is objectively accurate, subjectively honest, or both. - Adam Wayne, bass
It’s Friday night, minutes before they’d perform at The Hideout, and the four-piece band sits circled around a small table on the second floor of the venue. PBR’s all around and let’s start with an excerpt from Adam Wayne’s meaning of this album:
“We have in our generation (of young adults in 21st century America) some of the smartest and most capable humans on the planet, and most people squander it, because they don't know that not only is there another narrative, but there is any number of different narratives. If one doesn't fit, create the one you want! We sit among a whole generation of brilliant and capable minds dumbing down for office admin jobs, sales positions, and jobs that we ultimately don't care about to buy the things we're convinced we need to fill voids inside us we don't realize we have.
We're looking for heroes. Anyone or anything that galvanizes people, brings people together and points us to the better aspects of our nature, these people and things are worthy heroes. If people feel some sort of yearning or dissatisfaction, some itchy irritability, then it might be because they're not looking in the right direction for a solution, and that within them is a limitless, infinite capacity for love and growth through connection to higher things and people.
Voir Dire is a hard look at, and documentation of the current state of affairs.”
Minor Characters release show at The Hideout, October 17: Andrew Pelletier: vocals/guitar, Shelby Pollard: guitar/vocals, Adam Wayne: bass, Thomas Benko: drums
With each member bringing thoughtful perspective to Voir Dire comes 13 tracks of genuine reflection.
“When you project anything outward, you’re really reminding yourself how you feel about it. We’re reminding ourselves about the society we’re in and asking others, “do you feel the same?”, Shelby Pollard said.
“With this record we all bring our own personal story – this is very personal for Andrew – and Shelby brought his own collection of poetry, then I had my own independent thoughts and feelings on community. When it came together it’s like a checkpoint in knowing we’re in the right place at the time, doing the right thing,” Adam Wayne said.
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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesA Chat with Kate Adams, Performing Tonight at the Homeroom Chicago Songwriter Showcase
Kate Adams is one of the artists who will be performing and discussing her craft tonight at the Homeroom Chicago Songwriter Showcase at Columbia College’s HAUS at the Quincy Wong Center (623 S. Wabash). Along with J.C. Brooks, Odea, and Isaiah Oby, Kate will be playing music and providing the audience insights into the songwriting process and her musical influcences.
Billie Howard of Homeroom Chicago had a chance recently to ask Kate a few questions about herself:
Erik Roldan writesCHIRP + Coach House Sounds Present: VERMA
Chicago’s music scene is constantly bubbling with new talent, and five-piece VERMA is no exception. Having release two cassettes in 2010, the band’s ambitious self-description on their facebook page reads, “Verma is amoebic in nature, coexisting with the mechanical.” Their Coach House Sounds Session will be released on Thursday, June 21, stream it at coachhousesounds.com and listen to CHIRP all week for preview tracks!
1. What the dumbest thing you’ve ever done in a basement?
Last fall, we got asked to score one of the Vice Guide to Travel documentaries set in the Congo. We had a really short time to put it all together. We decided to go into our friend Zaid Maxwell’s (Shapers, Laser and Fast and Shit) basement and record the whole thing, mix, and master it in two days. At the time it was a dumb plan but we actually ended up having a great session. Everything couldn’t have turned out any better than it did….and Vice was really happy with the final score. (side note – we will be releasing those recordings in September… more to come on that, but for now check out the webby award winning doc in full: http://www.vice.com/vice-news/the-vice-guide-to-congo-full-length)