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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 26 - Oct 2)
Upcoming Events:
- Friday September 30: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sons of the Never Wrong to Evanston SPACE
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio is the media sponsor for Smashed Plastic Live, Vol. 1
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio welcomes Wednesday to Sleeping Village
- Wednesday October 5: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sudan Archives to Lincoln Hall
- Tuesday October 11: CHIRP Radio welcomes Altopalo to Schubas
- October 12 - 23: CHIRP Radio is proud to sponsor the 58th Chicago International Film Festival. The opening night Block Party is Thursday the 12th at The Music Box!
- Friday October 21: CHIRP Radio welcomes Preoccupations to Lincoln Hall
- Saturday October 22: It's the 18th Annual CHIRP Record Fair and Other Delights!
- Saturday October 22: CHIRP Radio partners with the Chicago Humanities Festival for Miranda July on Art in all its Forms with Carrie Brownstein
- Tuesday October 25: CHIRP Radio welcomes serpentwithfeet to Thalia Hall
On the Podcast:
- Lee G. interviews shame
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 9/26/22:
The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (Carpark)
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 19 - Sep 25)
Special Announcements
- The CHIRP Radio 2022 Fall Fundraiser is underway! Make your tax-deductable contribution now!
Upcoming Events:
- Tuesday September 20: CHIRP Radio welcomes Porridge Radio to Empty Bottle
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Stella Donnelly to Lincoln Hall
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes CHAI to the Garfield Park Conservatory
- Friday September 30: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sons of the Never Wrong to Evanston SPACE
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio is the media sponsor for Smashed Plastic Live, Vol. 1
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio welcomes Wednesday to Sleeping Village
- Wednesday October 5: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sudan Archives to Lincoln Hall
- Tuesday October 11: CHIRP Radio welcomes Altopalo to Schubas
- October 12 - 23: CHIRP Radio is proud to sponsor the 58th Chicago International Film Festival. The opening night Block Party is Thursday the 12th at The Music Box!
On the Podcast:
- Mick R. talks to The Cool Kids
- Mick R. converses with Blake Karlson of Chicago Research
- Matty G. takls to Taylor Bennett
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 9/5/22:
Thee Sacred Souls – Thee Sacred Souls (Daptone)
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Sep 5 - Sep 11)
Upcoming Events:
- Sunday September 11: CHIRP Radio is proud to sponsor the Chicago Humanities Festival event "Cooler by the Lake: South Shore Arts Party"
- Saturday September 17: CHIRP is proud to be the media sponsor for the Chicago Humanities Festival event "Angel Bat Dawid’s Performance at Yoko Ono’s Skylanding."
- Tuesday September 20: CHIRP Radio welcomes Porridge Radio to Empty Bottle
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Stella Donnelly to Lincoln Hall
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes CHAI to the Garfield Park Conservatory
- Friday September 30: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sons of the Never Wrong to Evanston SPACE
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio is the media sponsor for Smashed Plastic Live, Vol. 1
- Saturday October 1: CHIRP Radio welcomes Wednesday to Sleeping Village
- Wednesday October 5: CHIRP Radio welcomes Sudan Archives to Lincoln Hall
On the Blog:
- Matty G. takls to Taylor Bennett
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 9/5/22:
Stella Donnelly – Flood (Secretly Canadian)
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Aug 29 - Sep 4)
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday September 1 - Sunday September 4: CHIRP Radio is at Out of Space: Temperance
- Saturday September 3: CHIRP Radio is at Rockwell Street Stroll
- Thursday September 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Stella Donnelly to Lincoln Hall
On the Blog:
- Josh Friedberg shares his Summer Reading List
Top of the CHIRP Charts for the week of 8/22/22:
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes (BMG)
Josh Friedberg: Music Historian's Corner writesCHIRP Radio Summer Reading List 2022: Josh Friedberg
From July through September, CHIRP Radio is sharing reading recommendations from its DJs and volunteers. Up next is a list from CHIRP volunteer Josh Friedberg.
Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music by George Lipsitz
Buy: Bookshop.org | Chicago Public Library
George Lipsitz is one of the most important and insightful American cultural historians of the last few decades, known for writing such books as The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. His work on music does a better job than most at incorporating academic concepts and terminology into useful and accessible essays and chapters. This 2007 book looks primarily at music movements and moments from the 1990s and 2000s. I’ve read more than half of the book so far, and I appreciate Lipsitz’s wide range of musical subject matter and expertise. The book is very theoretically sophisticated, but very much worth reading for anyone interested in pop, hip hop, jazz, EDM, salsa, and other forms and their connections to the wider world.