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Like you, the CHIRP Features team is staying home to help flatten the curve! We are shifting our programming to present a new series in our Artist Interview Program. Shelter In Sound features interviews with artists and local music related tastemakers on what they are doing right now during this global pandemic. Tune in to learn how some of your favorite folx are managing and staying creative while hunkered down.
For this week's Shelter In Sound, Features Co-Director Jessi D spoke with Shannon Nico Shreibak, the Associate Marketing Director for the mainstay Chicago venue, the Empty Bottle. They discuss the Bottle's live-from-the-rooftop and quarantine-friendly streaming series Music Friendly Distancing, joining the movement to save national venues through NIVA, and Shannon's career highs. This podcast features tracks from local artists Disappears, Ganser, Cafe Racer, and Tasha, who have all had appearances on the Bottle's rooftop for Music Friendly Distancing.
Produced by Jessi D
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CHIRP volunteer Michael Reed interviews Andrew Cashen from A Giant Dog before their recent show at the Empty Bottle. They discuss the personal nature of the lyrics on their new album Toy, how a Texas taxidermy shop inspired Andrew to sculpt the Toy cover art, and his favorite Chicago bands.
produced by Michael Reed
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Marites, Nick, and Kyla of Ovef Ow recently came by the CHIRP studios to sit down with Features Director Amelia Hruby. They dish on what "ovef ow" means, how the band got started, and all the work on their new EP.
Catch Ovef Ow live at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday 8/16.
produced by Amelia Hruby (@ladyameliaa)
photo by Jeremy Farmer
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Local band Crown Larks recently sat down with CHIRP volunteer Amanda Dabandons in the CHIRP studios to talk about their upcoming album, touring, and one bleak night in Phoenix.
See Crown Larks live at their album release show on 5/6 at the Empty Bottle.
produced by Jessi DiBartolomeo
photo by Greg Reigh
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Local group Air Credits (aka Hood Internet & ShowYouSuck) recently stopped by the CHIRP studios to sit down with Features Director Amelia Hruby. They discussed the post-apocalyptic premise for their first album Broadcasted and how it feels to be making overtly political music in the current climate. (Hint: awesome.)
You can catch Air Credits live in Chicago on February 19th at the Empty Bottle for a Red Bull Sound Select show with Dan Deacon and Marijuana Deathsquad.
produced by Amelia Hruby (@ajhruby)
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Rock and roll duo King Khan & BBQ caught up with CHIRP's Dylan Peterson and Amanda Dabandons in the Empty Bottle basement before their sold out show last year. They talked about their love of diva cups, living without fear in fearful times, and growing up but not really growing up.
produced by Dylan Peterson (@_dylanclub_)
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Katy Goodman and Todd Wisenbaker are not only collaborators, they are newly married and have made La Sera a husband-and-wife project. Before their show at the Empty Bottle, CHIRP's Dylan Peterson talked to the couple about their other collaborations with Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis and Greta Morgan, they confirm that country is punk, and discuss how cool it is that women are making the best music in the world.
produced by Dylan Peterson (@tdvsbl)
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Before playing at the Empty Bottle, Yuck frontman Max Bloom sat down with CHIRP's Jessi D to talk about returning to his parents' place to record another album, making music with Yuck again after other members started side projects, and how his sister motivated him to play guitar better.
produced by Jessi D (@OriginalJessiD)
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Before her show at the Empty Bottle, Eleanor Friedberger sat down with CHIRP's Amanda Roscoe Mayo to talk about not missing Chicago while simultaneously feeling nostalgia for it, being obsessive about plan-making, and thinking about Van Morrison while she's singing.
produced by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (@AmandaRMayo)
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Hailing from the "Logan View" neighborhood of Chicago, Jimmy Whispers is one of city's most well-regarded weirdos. CHIRP's Dylan Peterson caught up with Jimmy to talk about ideas for his upcoming set at the Pitchfork Music Festival, the value of Ace of Base during his days as an Uber driver, and dressing like a beer-drenched Farrah Fawcett on stage.
Jimmy Whispers' record release show for Summer in Pain is Tuesday, March 24th, at the Empty Bottle.
produced by Dylan Peterson
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Before Moon Duo's album release show at the Empty Bottle for Shadow of the Sun, Ripley Johnson (Wooden Shjips) talked with CHIRP's Dylan Peterson about the benefits of using psychedelic drugs, the populariztion of psychedelic music, why rock and roll is meant for dancing, and the joys of working with King Khan.
produced by Dylan Peterson
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Katie Owens met up with recently signed locals, NE-HI, at Rootstock in Humboldt Park. The four piece provided context on Harry Potter uniting the band, discussed how DIY spaces contribute to the local music community, and shared their plans to create a supergroup.
NE-HI released their self-titled, debut full length on Manic Static earlier this year and will play Empty Bottle on December 1 with Landmarks, The Hecks and StarTropics.
Produced by Bri O'Reilly
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Before their headlining show at the Empty Bottle, A Sunny Day in Glasgow talked with Dylan Peterson about the process of making their latest album, Sea When Absent, from different time zones, and what was (and wasn't) weird about that. They also had an extended discussion about the greatness of Enya.
produced by Dylan Peterson
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Kip Berman, frontman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, sat down with Dylan Peterson down in the basement of the Empty Bottle before the band's sold-out show. They talked about how 90s irreverence was kind of annoying, gifs vs "jifs," feeling self-conscious in sunglasses, Kip said "cumshot" out loud, and Hot Doug's*. The band's new album, Days of Abandon, is out this week via Yebo.
*interview recorded prior to announcement of Hot Doug's closing
produced by Dylan Peterson
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CHIRP's Katie Owens met up with Chicago's Minor Characters before their show at Empty Bottle. They discussed their forthcoming debut full-length, how Joyce Johnson inspired the band’s name, and aspiring to play The Hideout.
You can catch Minor Characters next at Tomorrow Never Knows 2014 at Schubas Tavern on January 15.
produced by Liz Anderson
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CHIRP's Julie Mueller sat down with Jered and Leslie from Bare Mutants on the eve of their record release show for The Affliction at the Empty Bottle. They discussed how that venue is a thread connecting all members of the band, and how things have changed since Jered formed The Ponys 10 years ago.
Bare Mutants will play the Tomorrow Never Knows Fest at Schubas Tavern on January 17th.
produced by Daniel Musisi SSebowa
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