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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Jul 24 - Jul 31)
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday July 27: CHIRP Music Book Club discusses Jazz by Toni Morrison
- Thursday July 27 - Sunday July 30: CHIRP Radio at Out of Space
- Friday July 28 - Sunday July 30: CHIRP is a media sponsor for Wicker Park Fest
- Friday July 28: CHIRP Celebrates Ravenswood Best of Chicago wins
- Tuesday Aug 1: CHIRP Night at the Whistler Cordoba and Sopphire
- Saturday Aug 5 - Sunday Aug 6: CHIRP is a media sponsor for Thirsty Ears 2023
- Thursday Aug 10: CIHRP Radio welcomes Bully to Thalia Hall
- Tuesday Aug 15: CHIRP Radio welcomes The Clientele to Lincoln Hall
CHIRP Radio writesCIHRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Jul 17 - Jul 23)
Upcoming Events:
- Friday July 21 - Sunday July 23: CHIRP Record Fair at The 2023 Pitchfork Music Festival
- Friday July 21: CHIRP Radio welcomes Florist and Skullcrusher to Schubas (Pitchfork After Show)
- Thursday July 27: CHIRP Music Book Club discusses Jazz by Toni Morrison
- Thursday July 27 - Sunday July 30: CHIRP Radio at Out of Space
- Friday July 28 - Sunday July 30: CHIRP is a media sponsor for Wicker Park Fest
- Friday July 28: CHIRP Celebrates Ravenswood Best of Chicago wins
- Saturday Aug 5 - Sunday Aug 6: CHIRP is a media sponsor for Thirsty Ears 2023
- Thursday Aug 10: CIHRP Radio welcomes Bully to Thalia Hall
- Tuesday Aug 15: CHIRP Radio welcomes The Clientele to Lincoln Hall
DJ M-Dash writesThe Stone Roses Could Have Been the Biggest Act of the 90s
But time, laziness, and a little arrogance got in the way.
If you listen to their 1989 debut album, you know immediately The Stone Roses had it all: the effortless cool of the Velvet Underground and the technical prowess of Led Zeppelin. And their songwriting boasted the gravitas of early U2 and the catchy melodies of The Beatles.
Even better was their sound. With vocals hooks reminiscent of The Beach Boys, The Stone Roses began to reach pop music fans.
By 1990, radio across the British Isles and U.S. college radio widely played the singles “She Bangs The Drums” and the mighty and dark “I Wanna Be Adored.” By mid-year, The Stone Roses staged their own one-band festival at Spike Island in Merseyside in front of 30,000 fans.
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Jul 3 - July 9)
Upcoming Events:
- Friday July 7 - Sunday July 9: CHIRP Radio at Square Roots Festival
- Friday July 14: CHIRP Radio welcomes Deerhoof to Lincoln Hall
- Saturday July 15: CHIRP Radio welcomes Le Tigre to the Salt Shed
- Saturday July 15: CHIRP Radio welcomes Altin Gun to Thalia Hall
- Friday July 21 - Sunday July 23: CHIRP Record Fair at The 2023 Pitchfork Music Festival
DJ M-Dash writesDid P. Diddy and the 90s Save Live Music?
Maybe it wasn't all about the Benjamins.
In mid-June, I went to see Lauryn Hill up at Ravinia. Besides the fact that many of us, roving around the grounds with craft beers and even White Claw cans in our hands, were mostly middle-aged people, Gen Xers (‘90s kids as we call ourselves now), I was reminded of one other very ‘90s thing.
Hill came on after dark—easily 9:15 pm. And we weren’t surprised it would be a fabulous but brief show. As Hill trumpeted out tunes from her nearly 25-year-old album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the other flashback that hit was that back then… the short hip-hop show was standard.
In the first half of the 1990s, whether Fugees tipped your consciousness or Digable Planets’ dreamier tales were more your style, live tours were the same. You went to see an act that would come on at least an hour, maybe two hours later than scheduled.