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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 5 - Sep 11)
Upcoming Events:
- Sunday September 11: CHIRP Radio is proud to sponsor the Chicago Humanities Festival event "Cooler by the Lake: South Shore Arts Party"
- Saturday September 17: CHIRP is proud to be the media sponsor for the Chicago Humanities Festival event "Angel Bat Dawid’s Performance at Yoko Ono’s Skylanding."
- Tuesday September 20: CHIRP Radio welcomes Porridge Radio to Empty Bottle
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Stella Donnelly to Lincoln Hall
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes CHAI to the Garfield Park Conservatory
- Friday September 30: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sons of the Never Wrong to Evanston SPACE
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio is the media sponsor for Smashed Plastic Live, Vol. 1
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio welcomes Wednesday to Sleeping Village
- Wednesday October 5: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sudan Archives to Lincoln Hall
On the Blog:
- Matty G. takls to Taylor Bennett
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 9/5/22:
Stella Donnelly – Flood (Secretly Canadian)
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Aug 29 - Sep 4)
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday September 1 - Sunday September 4: CHIRP Radio is at Out of Space: Temperance
- Saturday September 3: CHIRP Radio is at Rockwell Street Stroll
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Stella Donnelly to Lincoln Hall
On the Blog:
- Josh Friedberg shares his Summer Reading List
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 8/22/22:
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)
Josh Friedberg: Music Historian's Corner writesCHIRP Radio Summer Reading List 2022: Josh Friedberg
From July through September, CHIRP Radio is sharing reading recommendations from its DJs and volunteers. Up next is a list from CHIRP volunteer Josh Friedberg.
Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music by George Lipsitz
Buy: Bookshop.org | Chicago Public Library
George Lipsitz is one of the most important and insightful American cultural historians of the last few decades, known for writing such books as The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. His work on music does a better job than most at incorporating academic concepts and terminology into useful and accessible essays and chapters. This 2007 book looks primarily at music movements and moments from the 1990s and 2000s. I’ve read more than half of the book so far, and I appreciate Lipsitz’s wide range of musical subject matter and expertise. The book is very theoretically sophisticated, but very much worth reading for anyone interested in pop, hip hop, jazz, EDM, salsa, and other forms and their connections to the wider world.
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Aug 22 - Aug 28)
Upcoming Events:
- Saturday August 27: CHIRP Radio welcomes Cults to Lincoln Hall
- Thursday September 1 - Sunday September 4: CHIRP Radio is at Out of Space: Temperance
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Stella Donnelly to Lincoln Hall
On the Podcast:
- Lee G. interviews Nathan Williams of Wavves
On the Blog:
- Bradley Morgan shares his Summer Reading List
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 8/15/22:
Kokoroko – Could We Be More (Brownswood)
Brad Morgan writesCHIRP Radio Summer Reading List 2022: Bradley Morgan
From July through September, CHIRP Radio is sharing reading recommendations from its DJs and volunteers. Up next is a list from CHIRP volunteer Bradley Morgan.
Nothing beats a good book during the summertime. Whether you’re sitting on a park bench, swinging in a hammock, or lounging on a sunny beach, books are often our best companion when the days are at their longest (there’s more light out to read by)!
I always suggest going with whatever turns your page. A harlequin romance? It isn’t just the sun that’s hot! The latest in your favorite graphic novel series? No spoilers because I’m still catching up! Early 20th century French philosophy? Ooh la la!
As for myself, I like a good mix. I like to keep it both serious and silly, reading something for a good laugh and then something that challenges and expands my surroundings. As Fran Lebowitz says, “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.” Books convey ideas and encourage us to live our lives beyond what we just see right in front of us.
Here’s a list of books that recently did that for me and much more.