Green Room Sessions: Soft Speaker

This Green Room Sessions interview and live music track comes from Chicago-based quartet Soft Speaker, taped live June 22, 2010. The podcast is now streaming online (just click on the embedded player below) and available for download for a limited time here. A big thank-you to Joe Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman, and Nick Roccio of Soft Speaker, and be sure to check out their headlining single-release show at Schubas this Saturday (details and ticket info available here, and take it easy in this hot weather with some cool live music.
<3, Susan.
Listen to the interview and live track from Soft Speaker here!

Green Room Sessions: Secret Colours

This Green Room Sessions interview and live acoustic set with the members of Chicago band Secret Colours was taped on May 26, 2010, and can be downloaded here for a limited time (or you can stream the podcast online using the online player at the right-hand side of this page). A special thank-you to band members Tommy Evans, Dave Stach, Dylan Olson, Justin Frederick, and Margaret Albright, and go check out their album release show at Lincoln Hall tonight with Gold Motel (who are also releasing an album) and Mini Mansions!

((TICKET LINK))

Listen to the interview and live acoustic session with Secret Colours!



Secret Colours' GRS Setlist:
Redemption*
Jellybean*
Some Might Say*
Chemical Swirl*
Love*
Set Me Free

*Featured on their new full-length album, Secret Colours.

Green Room Sessions: Geronimo!

This Green Room Sessions interview with Kelly Johnson and Ben Grigg from local rock trio Geronimo! was taped on April 19, 2010, and can be downloaded here for a limited time. They are playing an album release show for the new Geronimo! full length, Fuzzy Dreams, at Schubas tomorrow night, April 30, with Kid, You'll Move Mountains, polarOPPOSITEbear and Inspector Owl. Seriously, check it out, they're a fun bunch of guys and the music's pretty sweet! :)

<3, Susan.

Listen to the interview with Geronimo! and preview two tracks from FUZZY DREAMS here!




Fuzzy Dreams tracks featured on this podcast:
Geronimo! - Design Yourself A Heart
Geronimo! - Approaching the Skyline

Playlist and Podcast for February 13, 2010

And, as promised, here is this week's podcast, also available for online listening at the right-hand side of this page. It's heavy on Valentine's Day-related content (after all, everybody loves a love song) and a delightful interview with Chicago's own King Sparrow. Go see some live music this week—everything on this week's showlist is highly recommended by me personally. Take care, enjoy the show (and a Happy Anna Howard Shaw Day to us all)!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
King Sparrow – Derailer
Blondie – Hanging On The Telephone
Jefferson Airplane – Today
Bird Ate My Donut – Winter
Sublime – Caress Me Down
King Sparrow – The Wreckage
King Sparrow – The River
King Sparrow – Forest
King Sparrow – Bones and Skin
The White Stripes – In The Cold, Cold Night
Dan Auerbach – I Want Some More
Elephant Gun – Wolfeater
Wilco – I'm The Man Who Loves You
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love
Joey Ramone & Holly Beth Vincent – I Got You Babe

UPCOMING SHOWS:
2/13 – King Sparrow, Maritime @ Beat Kitchen
2/14 – Sass Dragons, Elephant Gun @ Ottoman Empire
2/15 – Editors @ Vic Theater
2/18 – Bird Ate My Donut @ Martyrs
2/18 – St Vincent @ Metro
2/19-2/20 – Smoking Popes @ Reggie's Rock Club (Fri 2/19 with Blasted Diplomats!)

New Show On Its Way

A new podcast, featuring some sweet local music previews, a fantastic and engaging interview with Chicago band King Sparrow (who are playing an all-ages show tonight, 2/13, at Beat Kitchen), and, of course, some songs in honor of St. Valentine's/Anna Howard Shaw Day. The download link should be up later today, but in the meantime, check out the week's showlist, and take a gander at this catchy little number in the latest Onion.

<3, Susan.

UPCOMING SHOWS:
2/13 – King Sparrow, Maritime @ Beat Kitchen (ALL AGES!!)
2/14 – Sass Dragons, Elephant Gun @ Ottoman Empire
2/15 – Editors @ Vic Theater
2/18 – Bird Ate My Donut @ Martyrs
2/18 – St Vincent @ Metro
2/19-2/20 – Smoking Popes @ Reggie's Rock Club (Fri 2/19 w/ Blasted Diplomats)

Boo Wa Wa Hoo Hoo Hoo

There's no podcast this week, as it's Christmas! Go spend time with the family you were born with and/or the family you choose for yourself. I HAVE, however, selected a new holiday classic for you to enjoy in video form: The Professor Brothers' 'Prisoner Christmas' by the one and only Brad Neely. This week's showlist follows, and I hope to see you all back here next week for an extra-long New Year's Eve podcast!
<3, Susan.



SHOWLIST:
12/22 - Coltrane Motion @ Double Door
12/23 - Percolator @ Empty Bottle
12/26 - CAW! CAW! @ Beat Kitchen
12/26 - Pet Lions @ Empty Bottle
12/29 - Tom Schraeder & His Ego @ Schubas
12/29 - The Good Life @ Subterranean

Playlist and Podcast for December 16, 2009

As winter closes in, and the wind punches you in the face with a blast colder than the snow queen's frosty tits, it's nice to know you at least have some good music in your not-too-distant future. That last sentence kind of got away from me, but this week's podcast can be downloaded for a limited time right here, or you can listen online by clicking on the player at the right-hand side of the page! The playlist follows, along with a list of some promising live music happening in town over the next week. Go see some live music--it's not *that* cold out yet!
<3, Susan.

PLAYLIST:
Mannequin Men – Rathole
Village – Lava Birds
Pixies – No. 13 Baby
Love – Hey Joe
On The Lam – Love, Hate Kind of Thing
Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer
Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone With You
The Singleman Affair – Eyelids in Light
Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You
The Gories – I'll Go
Andrew Bird – Tenuousness

UPCOMING SHOWS:
12/15–12/17 – Andrew Bird @ Fourth Presbyterian Church
12/16 – The Last Chivalrist (On The Lam solo set) @ Underground Lounge
12/16 – Sissy Mena @ Double Door (album release)
12/18 – Mannequin Men, White Mystery, Village @ Empty Bottle
12/19 – The Detroit Cobras @ Double Door (Benefit for Scotland Yard Gospel Choir)
12/20 – Lasers and Fast and Shit, Old Fake @ Metro
12/21 – The Singleman Affair, Mean Sea Level @ Schubas (Cardboard Sangria showcase)