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Mauricio Reyes- Radio Maoheem writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2015: Mauricio Reyes
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from DJ (Thursdays 3-6pm) Mauricio Reyes. Since it was released after my 2014 list was made... Black Messiah by D'Angelo (RCA)
I'm gonna put this one in it's own special category due to its late release last year. And it deserves its own category. I spent most of 2014 listening to "Voodoo" over and over again, so it was an early Christmas present for me when D'Angelo dropped this gift on to the world. Though the release date was rushed, which sounds kinda funny cause it took 15 years in between albums, the timing was impeccable and truly captured the moment that America was going through (and still is). The chaos in the music of "1000 Deaths" is the sound of the unrest that Michael Brown's death brought to the U.S. and the line in "The Charade" All we wanted was a chance to talk, 'stead we only got outlined in chalk, tugs at the hearts strings but Trayvon Martin... Tamir Rice... Freddie Gray... Walter Scott... Eric Gardner... LaQuan McDonald... This is not an album that will be remembered by its placement on lists in 2014 or 2015 but an album that will remain timeless. |
Tyler Clark presents: Local Mythologies writes25 Off-The-Wall Holiday Tunes: Pet Shop Boys, “Birthday Boy” (2002)
It's Christmas at CHIRP Radio, and we're looking for a cure for the common carol. Instead of bending to the will of the average 24-hour holiday muzak stations, we're spending the season unearthing a bunch of winter-approved tunes that you probably haven't heard for a while (or maybe even ever). Today: the Pet Shop Boys reexamine the reason for the season.
algabor writesCHIRP Radio Best of 2015: Al Gabor
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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2015. Our next list is from volunteer Al Gabor. In no special order--all of these have been my number one in 2015 for at least a week. |
SKaiser writesWhats Happening at CHIRP Radio (12/14/15)
Upcoming Events:
- CHIRP Welcomes Jay Farrar to Old Town School of Folk Music (4544 N. Lincoln Avenue) Friday, December 18 at 7:00 PM | RSVP Here
New Media:
- Check out the latest CHIRP Factory Session with Dutch Punk legends The Ex and saxophonist Ken Vandermark!
- Patrick Seymour writes An Interview With Spot and Joe Carducci of SST Records
- First Sign: Anne Elizabeth Moore
- Kwame Shorter interviews Space Blood
- Person of Interest: Kelsie Hardison
- Our volunteers’ favorite albums of 2015 are featured on month long on the blog
- Tyler Clark spends December highlighting 25 Off-the-Wall Holiday Tunes for your listening enjoyment
Top of the CHIRP Charts:
1. Josh Berman Trio – A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
2. Mooner – Masterpiece (Aerial Ballet)
3. Grimes – Art Angels (4AD)
SKaiser writesThe Chicago Help Initiative
The face of homelessness brings images to mind of souls bared on cardboard and subsequent gratitude for the familiar jangle drop in a cup. Sometimes we know the progressive story of why someone is living on the street. Sometimes it’s not that easy. We all know them, and may even find ourselves among them.
For one Chicago woman, it took the experiences of forcing homeless people out of condo building doorways she sells on Michigan Avenue for her to realize as a community in a great city, this just isn’t right.
“I thought tourists must think we’re horrible by the way our homeless population are treated,” Jacqueline Hayes, founder and President of the Chicago Help Initiative (CHI), said.
It was 1999 and Hayes’ first phone call was to Monsignor Boland of Chicago Catholic Charities. He offered dining hall space at the Archdiocese of Chicago to host meals for those in need. To say services expanded from there is an understatement.
