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SKaiser writes@CHIRPRadio (Week of April 23)
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Wednesday, April 25 | 8:30 PM | 21+ | CHIRP Night at the Whistler welcomes Chicago's own ADT with Teleporter!
- Sunday, April 29 | 4:00 PM | All Ages | Join CHIRP at the Chicago Humanities Festival - Questlove: Creative Quest
- Sunday, April 29 | 5:30 PM | All Ages | This Classic Album Sundays at the Saturday Audio Exchange features The Wailers Burnin'
- Sunday, April 29 | 6:00 PM | Join CHIRP at the Chicago Humanities Festival - Hanif Abdurraqib: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Sunday, April 29 | 8:00 PM | 21+ | CHIRP Welcomes The Cactus Blossoms to Lincoln Hall (2424 N Lincoln Ave)
- Sunday, April 29 | 8:00 PM | All Ages | CHIRP is happy to welcome Sam Amidon to the Old Town School of Folk Music (4544 N Lincoln Ave) with special guest James Elkington
NEW MEDIA
- Local rap artist known as Fury sat down with Features Director Amelia Hruby
- First Time: First Dream with Adam Lawson
- Miranda Phelps sat down with Dessa, a member of hip-hop group Doomtree
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writes@CHIRPRadio (Week of April 9)
Upcoming Events
- Wednesday April 11: CHIRP Radio presents First Time: First Try at Martyr's
- Friday April 13: CHIRP Radio welcomes Bette LaVette to the Old Town School of Folk Music
- Saturday April 14: The 16th Annual CHIRP Record Fair and Other Dlights happens at Plumbers Hall!
New Media
- First Time: First Strike - Lawrence Peters
- First Time: First Strike - Clarence Browley
- Jessi D. takes a look at Frontwoman Fest
Top of the CHIRP Charts
1. Wye Oak – The Louder I Call the Faster I Run (Merge)
2. Alice Bag – Blueprint (Don Giovanni)
3. FACS – Negative Houses (Trouble in Mind)
Click here to see the complete list of 50 albums that made this week’s charts as well as new music recently added to CHIRP’s library.
SKaiser writes@CHIRPRadio (Week of April 2)
NEW MEDIA
- Bex of Nashville based Ruby Boots joined Features interviewer Max Carter in the CHIRP studios
- Kurt Conley writes Music as Memory: Getting Witchy with Tori Amos
- YFEE Plans Deeply Personal Performance at CHIRP Night at the Whistler by Mike Nikolich
- The Fourth Wall: Revolutionary Road with Kevin Fullam and Clarence Ewing
Kevin Fullam writesThe Fourth Wall: Revolutionary Road
Welcome to The Fourth Wall, CHIRP's weekly e-conversation on cinema. This week's subject is the 2008 movie Revolutionary Road.
This edition is written by CHIRP Radio volunteers Kevin Fullam and Clarence Ewing.
Kevin:
The honeymoon is over. Now what?
Throughout much of Hollywood's history, it seems that marriage (especially the wedding) has been utilized as a feel-good capper on many a love story. It's practically a requisite for any traditional rom-com film, right? These tales are usually told from a female perspective*, where the heroine sets out to nab her beau, and the pair ride off into the scripted sunset, either just pre- or post-altar festivities.
[*though certainly not always -- but interestingly, similarly-styled relationship films with male leads (say, High Fidelity) are seldom referred to as romantic comedies.]
I've often wondered how much of an impact these messages have on our own desire to get hitched? The pressure comes from all sides in American culture: mass media, religion... hell, even the tax code subtlety encourages it. But for decades, scant attention was paid to the discarded husks of marriages gone wrong. And with a divorce rate estimated at around 50%, we have no shortage of fractured homes in the good ol' United States.
Celluloid has caught up in recent decades, with tales about the nightmare of child-custody battles (Kramer vs. Kramer), to the insanity of knockdown, drag-out enmity (War of the Roses). But I'm not sure that any film has done a better job of illustrating the Descent Into Marital Despair that's featured in Revolutionary Road.
Mike Nikolich writesYFEE Plans Deeply Personal Performance at CHIRP Night at The Whistler
The Whistler audience is in for a treat March 28, when YFEE takes the stage at CHIRP Night at the Whistler. Sharing the stage with experimental noise-rockers Mermaid N.V., the Chicago hip-hop/electronic artist will spin tales of relationships, intrigue, sci-fi, astronomy and maybe a conspiracy theory or two.
“I’ve been singing and writing lyrics and poetry since I was seven years old,” YFEE says. “I love to play with meanings and give room in my lyrics for things to mean more than one thing at the same time.”
A graduate of Northwestern, YFEE studied Film and Astrophysics. Her passion for both subjects is evident in her videos and lyrics, and YFEE isn’t afraid to wear her emotions on her sleeve, either.
“I always want my songs to come from a deep, emotional place,” YFEE says. “I try to express feelings that are very personal and universal to all human beings.”