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Well, we've arrived. From 32 bands, the field of the second-annual CHIRP Battle of the Bands has been winnowed to The Last Four. Let's see who they are and how they got here:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have four possible winners on our hands. You know what to do. Voting for the Last Four closes on Saturday, April 30 at 6 p.m. Let's get cookin'.
Wilco Regional Champion: The Kickback
Fourth Round Song: "Rob Our House"
Previous Championships: Once voted "Most Likely to Cover Fountains of Wayne"
Kanye Regional Champion: Lil Tits
Fourth Round Song: "Peaking"
Previous Championships: Beat a Pavement cover band at flip cup once.
Chance Regional Champion: Ego
Fourth Round Song: Again: pick one
Previous Championships: Given Dell Horoscopes' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Mavis Region Champion: Swimsuit Addition
Fourth Round Song: "Plug Us In"
Previous Championships: Won the Illinois State Fair's screaming contest, non-microphone division.
by Eddie Sayago
Prince was (it’s tough to not type “is”) more than an electrifying artist and performer. He elevated music to a new level. He defied what a musician, performer, and person could be. As our finest ruler in music royalty (and oddly fitting that he takes the spotlight from an actual monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. On her 90th birthday nonetheless.), he could do anything. He played encores well over an hour after the show ended. He made everyone attempt to call him The Artist Formerly Known as Prince for nearly a decade. Hell, he appeared on Muppets Tonight as a singing farmer and on New Girl as himself, poking fun of his persona (“Oh, how rude of me, I haven’t given you enough time to freak now. You may do so now.”).
Here are five of his songs performed by six artists...
Prince was practically a genre. Just about everyone has covered a song of his either on record, on stage, during karaoke, or during a jam session with friends. Two British artists on each end of the musical spectrum and with illustrious careers of their own bring their own swagger to one of the most iconic songs in pop music.
Jones, no stranger to combining sex appeal with his vocal performances, originally began performing “Kiss” during a Vegas residency shortly after “Kiss” debuted in 1986. Avant-garde group the Art of Noise saw Jones live and wanted to collaborate with the man behind “It’s Not Unusual”, “She’s A Lady”, and the delightfully campy and raunchy “Sex Bomb.” That combo resulted in Jones’ first foray on MTV and a Top 40 hit in the US and a Top 10 in his native UK. Thompson, the folksy singer-songwriter extraordinaire best known for “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”, delivers a boldly confident performance of “Kiss” in front of a live audience, which was later featured in his album 1000 Years of Popular Music.
Are You Serious is the 13th studio album from Andrew Bird, not counting EPs, live records, numerous guest appearances, and his stint with Squirrel Nut Zippers. Dude is busy, and continues to be busy writing and performing music for records and the TV (He wrote music for The Muppets and the score for the FX cult hit Baskets). It seems too early to call Bird a Chicago institution since that word implies a person who is nearing the end of a career, while he seems to have a long musical road ahead of him. Suffice to say, this is the latest chapter in a prolific career that continues to produce some of the most skillfully beautiful Pop music that will come through your speakers. Songs from the new album are available in rotation and by request on CHIRP Radio.