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CHIRP Podcasts
Artist Interviews Hologram Kizzie
Chicago Hip-hop artist, Hologram Kizzie aka Psalm One met up with Katie Owens before her set at Hideout's annual SXSW sendoff show on the first sunny spring day of the season. Hologram Kizzie spoke about her alternative path which made her a natural role model to Chicago youths and the LGBT community, she also mused about the inherent barriers to women in rap and the importance of overcoming them.
Hologram Kizzie released Hug Life in 2014 out on Bonafyde. You can catch her next at The Promontory on June 4.
Produced by: Jessi D
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First Time First Lie - Alison Flowers
Alison is a Chicago journalist who focuses on social justice and criminal justice. She is the author of Exoneree Diaries, a narrative non-fiction multimedia series for Chicago Public Media and NPR affiliate, WBEZ 91.5. The series was a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award in 2014. Her work has appeared in VICE, The Village Voice, the ABA Journal and many other outlets.
Podcast produced by Dan Epstein
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Artist Interviews Beat Connection
Mid-week at SXSW 2015, CHIRP's Dylan Peterson caught up with Tom, Jarred, Mark and Reed of Seattle's Beat Connection (after one of their seven shows at the festival) to talk about what listeners can expect from the band's yet-to-be-released full-length album, blending 90s R&B with PC Music at their DJ nights, and riding that fine line of freshness and wackness.
produced by Dylan Peterson
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Person of Interest Person of Interest: Rubí Villagomez
Where: Humboldt Park
"Ever since I was a child, I knew I wanted to be a mother."
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First Time First Lie - Sean Flannery
Contains explicit language
Sean is the creator and host of The Blackout Diaries a show where comics plus 'real' people (cops, priests, teachers, etc) share true drinking stories and answer questions from the audience. He has been featured on Comedy Central and named the best standup comic in Chicago by several publications. He was also named Best Drunk by The Chicago Reader (2014). On stage, he shares wild, hilarious stories, while showing multimedia from the events: photos, videos, voicemails and more. Last year he combined many of these stories into a sold-out, critically-acclaimed one man show, called Never Been to Paris, about the last 10 times he nearly killed himself by accident.
Podcast produced by Dan Epstein
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