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Shy Girls
When Dan Vidmar of Shy Girls was getting started, sending demos around a friend mentioned in jest that he sounded like a 'shy girl.' Features interviewer Miranda Phelps sat down with Dan just before taking the state at Subterranean in Chicago. Listen to the full origin story, current touring vibes - including die-hard traveling fans, and tracing vulnerability to the music on and off the stage....and more!
Produced by Robert Patterson
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Practical Flats Interview
Features Assistant Director Ari Mejia chats with local band Practical Flats. In this interview we get their innate friendship is the special sauce of their music making.
Produced by Ari Mejia
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Artist Interviews Ten Fe Interview
Interviewer Bradley Morgan chats with Leo Duncan of Ten Fe at their Schubas show. They discuss Ten Fe's origins as a band, creating a foundation built on selflessness, and blending genres from traditional Irish music to psychedelia to jazz.
Produced by Brian Szpak
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First Time: First Burn - Jacqui Shine
Jacqui Shine is a writer and historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Boston Review, Slate, and The Atlantic. She's read, taught, and performed at The Marrow, the Therapy Sessions with Seth Vanek, the Chautauqua Institution, the Dikeou Reading Series, and Bad Advice from Bad Women. After six years in Chicago, she's experimenting with not taking the weather personally.
The First Time is CHIRP Radio’s live lit and music series. Created in 2010, The First Time pairs a reader’s personal story about a specific "first time" - a different "first" for each show - with a song performance. This unique structure allows the story to resonate with audience members as they experience the accompanying song covered by The First Time Four (Gerald Dowd, Steve Frisbie, Liam Davis and Scott Stephenson.
Event produced and directed by Julie Mueller with Assistant Producer Bobby Evers and Host Jenn Sodini. Podcast recorded by Brian Heath, produced and edited by Jenn Rourke.
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Impulsive Hearts Interview
Interviewer Marites Velasquez hangs at the Chirp studio with local Chicago band Impulsive Hearts. They chat about their new EP, Girls Rock Chicago, and using music as a way to make a difference.
Produced by Joseph Griffin
Photo credit: J. Del Dotto
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