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Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesTop 5 Things You Might Not Know About CHIRP Radio
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This Saturday, October 21st, is a landmark day for CHIRP Radio as it ventures onto the broadcast airwaves for the first time at 107.1FM! It’s the end of a years-long journey to change the media landscape, and also the beginning of a new era for the organization.
While we’ll still be heard online, the addition of our broadcast signal is something we’re over the moon about. To help mark the occasion, here are five things about radio, and CHIRP radio, you may not have known…
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesThe Chicago Web Series Low Strung Premiers on Oct. 21st!
The next great Chicago comedy series is premiering this weekend! Low Strung is a comedy about an audacious pair of friends, Victoria Lee and Shervin Bain, and their chaotic endeavors through a surreal lens in Chicago. Directed by Addison Wright and Lili K., Low Strung gives viewers a chance to vicariously experience sex, drugs, and montages. The series also features music from local musicians ShowYouSuck, Lex Allen, Klassik, Air Credits, Celine Neon, Rahn Harper, Chason, The Rapper Chicks and Lili K.
The first four episodes will officially premiere on October 21, 2017 at AMFM Gallery (2151 W 21st St. 60608) at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public!
Lily Y writesTake Two: “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” (Tame Impala Vs. Rihanna)
Feel like a brand new person (but you make the same old mistakes)
I don’t care I’m in love (stop before it’s too late)
Feel like a brand new person (but you make the same old mistakes)
I finally know what is love (you don’t have what it takes)
The Original: The final track off of Tame Impala’s psychedelic-pop 2016 album Currents is a relaxing, yet haunting, synth filled ballad about self-doubt, lack of inhibition, and spur of the moment ideas. At 6 minutes long, vocalist Kevin Parker’s hypnotizing voice perfectly suits the song and results into an electrifying confrontation about a changing mindset, and accepting any future changes that will happen.
The Other Version: More like a note-for-note remake, rather than a cover, Rihanna’s version on her 2016 album ANTI retitled "Same Ol’ Mistakes" adds nothing new or exciting to the song. Rather than adding her own pop-reggae flair that we normally see in her albums, Rihanna focuses on Tame Impala’s psychedelic aspects by almost imitating an airy, ethereal tone much like Parker’s voice.
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writesAround the Web: Books About Music | Jackie Shane
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Josh Friedberg has put together a list of 10 Conversation-Shifting Contemporary Books About Music (PopMatters)
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The Story of Jackie Shane, Re-Emerging After Four Decades Away from Music (New York Times)
Clarence Ewing: The Million Year Trip writes@CHIRPRADIO (Week of October 16)
Special Announcements
- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21st, 12:00PM CST. IT’S TIME!!! CHIRP Radio flips the switch on its broadcast signal and brings transmitting over the airwaves at 107.1FM! Check out our broadcast page and join us for the events marking this occasion!
Upcoming Events
- Sunday Oct. 22: Classic Album Sundays returns to experience The Strokes’ Is This It?
New Media
- First Time: First Catch featuring Micki Lesueur, Steve Krakow, Dan Shapiro, Wes Needham, Natalie Grace, and Marites Velasquez
- Mike Nikolich reviews the latest from Chicago Afrobeat Project
- Clarence Ewing and Kevin Fullam discuss the YouTube video The Fall of the Simpsons and the new age of TV