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Eric Wiersema writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2017: Eric Wiersema
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2017. Our next list is from volunteer Eric Wiersema. 2017 has been an incredible year for music and I listened to over double the amount of new music than I usually do thanks to reviewing 46 albums for CHIRP this year. I listened to around 100 full albums total and here are my top 10! |
Melissa! writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2017: Melissa
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2017. Our next list is from DJ (Wednesday Nights 10pm-Midnight) Melissa. 2017 has been another year of killer music here in Chicago and beyond. Here is a list of records that I've spent a lot of time with this year. If you're into any of these give my Wednesday night show a listen - 10:00pm to Midnight. |
Tyler Clark presents: Local Mythologies writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2017: Tyler Clark
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2017. Our next list is from DJ Tyler Clark. (Whoops! If you're reading this, it's at least a year after its intended publication; I was pretty delinquent on my year-end list duties for 2017, but decided to use the retroactive magic of the internet to weigh in now (December 2018) with my belated, but no less crucial, picks. Hope you dig 'em.) |
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesA Conversation With the Stars of “Low Strung”
Low Strung is a new Web comedy series based in Chicago about an audacious pair of friends, Victoria Lee and Shervin Bain, as they navigate their way through adulthood in the Big City, with hilarious results. The show was recently nominated in four categories at the 2017 Brooklyn Web Fest, with Lee winnning in the category Best Actress. A classically trained cellist who performs with the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and recorded with several other Chicago artists like Chance the Rapper, Lee and her co-star Bain (actor, Second City student, world traveller, and staple of Chicago's vibrant LGBTQ community) also write the scripts for the show.
Low Strung | Official Trailer from Low Strung Series on Vimeo.
CHIRP Radio volunteer Clarence Ewing was able to ask Lee, Bain, and music supervisor and Chicago musician Lili K. a few questions about themselves and the series:
The Audible Snail writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2017: Sondra the Audible Snail
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2017. Our next list is from DJ and Campaign Manager Sondra: The Audible Snail. A combination of upbeat dashed with a strong sense of skepticism. At times flippant (most times flippant). A little feminist, a little angry, a lot of love dancing with defiance. Some sweetness. That probably best fits my selections. 2017 was a hard year, for many people, but the music is getting louder, and so are our voices. |