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First Time First Sign - Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist, best-selling comics anthologist, and Fulbright scholar born in Winner, South Dakota. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, Al Jazeera, Salon, Wilson Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Onion, Tin House, and Truthout. She is the former editor of Punk Planet and the Best American Comics. Her art has appeared in solo exhibitions at the MCA, in the Whitney Biennial, and in solo shows on three continents. She is the author of Unmarketable, Cambodian Grrrl, and the upcoming collection of comics journalism, Threadbare: Sex, Clothes, and Trafficking. Her two cats live in Chicago, where she teaches at the School of the Art Institute.

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Artist Interviews Space Blood

Will and Sam of Chicago band Space Blood stopped by our studios recently to talk to CHIRP's Kwame Shorter about combining comedy and music in their live shows, the perils of using online voice-to-text translators, and making international math rock compilations.

produced by Kwame Shorter

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Artist Interviews The Bird And The Bee

Before headlining Lincoln Hall, The Bird And The Bee's Inara George met up with CHIRP's Bobby Evers and Jessi D to talk about how becoming parents changed things for the band, the challenges of touring without the bee (aka, the other half of the duo, Greg Kurstin), and why it took the band so long to release their 2015 album, Recreational Love.

Produced by Bobby Evers (@ohbusiness)
Interview by Bobby Evers and Jessi D (@originalJessiD)

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Artist Interviews Clearance

Mike and Arthur of Chicago band Clearance came to the CHIRP studios and talked to CHIRP’s Amelia Hruby about forgetting all of their music, what they’re listening to lately, and whether or not they sound like Pavement.