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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesHüsker Dü and the Birth of Alternative Rock
CHIRP Radio's Citations presents interesting and informative content about Chicago or music (or both) from around the Web.
Here's Trash Theory's excellent video essay that talks about the legendary band Hüsker Dü and how they helped shape what's come to be known as Alternative Rock.
CHIRP Radio writesIn Rotation: Sunshine Boys
Work and Love, the new album from Chicago band Sunshine Boys, is out on Pravda Records and in rotation on CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM Chicago!
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesHow to Not Be a Racist
The events happeninng ascross the world that have occured in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd have been, to completey undersell it, extraordinary. The latest chaper in the stuggle for equality has shook up the world and brought together people from all races.
However, some people are wondering what else they could do to further the cause in additon to marching and standing shoulder to shoulder with their Black brothers and sisters.
It is the opinion of this author that learning and understaning is a great place to start, not just of the emotional states of individuals, but the natiure and history of the country we live in, and the ways society makes oppression possible.
Below is a brief list of books and other media resouces to help in that journey. If you have a suggestion for other resources, list them below in the comments or send us an email and we'll add it.
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen D. Wu
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Mexican Americans and the Question of Race by Julie A. Dowling
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony by Nelson A. Denis
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo
- 13th (2016 documentary) [review by Clarence Ewing and Kevin Fullam]
- The 1619 Project (New York Times)
- Code Switch (National Public Radio)
- Higher Learning (1995 film)
- "The Problem We All Live With" (This American Life)
CHIRP Radio writesIn Rotation: Varsity
Fine Forever, the new album from Chicago band Varsity, is out on Run for Cover Records and in rotation on CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM Chicago!
Beatnik writesThe Songs That Get You Through: “Recording 15” by Shannon Lay
These are obviously strange times we are living in, so we asked some of our CHIRP volunteers to tell us about a particular song they like to listen to when things are tough. We're calling it, "The Songs That Get You Through."
Tuesday afternoon DJ and CHIRP review writer Danielle Sines writes:
I’ve been digging through my records (alphabetically, even) - but I had to listen to this record early to help soothe my soul during this unprecedented time. With soft folk leanings, Shannon Lay’s "Recording 15" is a beautiful song to listen to while you unwind.
