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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writes@CHIRPRADIO (Week of October 31)
Upcoming Events
- Sunday, Nov. 6 : CHIRP Radio welcomes Hiss Golden Messenger to the Old Town School of Folk Music
New Media
- The Friday MP3 Shuffle Says Happy Birthday to Desmond Child
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesFriday MP3 Shuffle: Happy Birthday Desmond Child Edition
(photo from songwriteruniverse.com)
Today on the MP3 Shuffle, we celebrate the birthday of songwriter extraordinaire Desmond Child. According to Wikipedia, he’s the son of a Hungarian aristocrat and a Cuban singer, which is pretty cool in itself. But he’s also made a name for himself penning hit songs for a bunch of popular hard Rock bands including KISS (“I Was Made for Loving You”), Bon Jovi (“You Give Love a Bad Name”), Aerosmith (“Dude [Looks Like a Lady]”), and even Ricky Martin (“Livin' la Vida Loca”). If you were listening to a commercial Rock station in the late ‘80s, you were hearing this man’s words on a regular basis.
To mark this prolific artist’s accomplishments, let’s play the shuffle. Hold your MP3 player high, press the shuffle button, and share the first 10 songs that play:
SKaiser writes@CHIRPRADIO (Week of October 24)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Join us for CHIRP Night at the Whistler (2421 N Milwaukee) tomorrow, Wednesday October 26th, with Iverson and Boycut! | 8:30 PM | No Cover | 21+
NEW MEDIA
A conversation with BESTMAN and Amelia Hruby
Lady Amelia writesA Conversation With BESTMAN
BESTMAN is the synthpop project of local artist Brian Clouthier. CHIRP volunteer Amelia Hruby caught up with Brian after the release of his new EP BIG SKY.
Amelia: Tell me how you started BESTMAN.
Brian: I started about three years ago. I had been playing in bands in Chicago and met a lot of really cool people, but I felt that I still needed a creative outlet of my own.
Around that time my best friend moved to California with his fiancé who was another one of my really close friends, and I was kind of bummed about it, because we had been close for a long time. So when he asked me to be the best man in his wedding, I took a trip out there. I had only been to California one time before, and I stayed in the Valley the entire time and just thought it was miserable. It totally validated my “I’m a Chicago guy” kind of thing, and I really didn’t understand the romance of the West Coast. But when I went out there to throw his bachelor party, we went to Malibu and Venice and down the coast, hiking in the canyons, and I finally got it.
I came home really inspired to make music that would melt the blue-collar aspect of the Midwest and Chicago and the rock music I had been playing for a long time with this new Cali-electro sound that had started to draw me in.
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writes@CHIRPRADIO (Week of October 17)
Upcoming Events
- Saturday, Oct. 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes The Flat Five to the Old Town Schoool of Folk Music
- Sunday, Oct. 23: Classic Album Sundays at the Audio Exchange presents Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin
New Media
- Dylan Peterson raps with Potty Mouth
- Dan Epstein takes a close-up look at The First Time Four